Switzerland's foreign ministry has announced that planned talks between the United States and Iran, scheduled for Friday at the Burgenstock mountaintop resort in the village of Obbürgen, will not take place. The cancellation follows a statement from a White House spokesperson that Vice President JD Vance pulled out of the trip, despite his staff already being at the airbase ready to fly to the summit.
The meetings were intended to implement a 14-point agreement to end the war between the two nations. This follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding by President Trump earlier this week, which opened a 60-day window to negotiate a permanent understanding regarding Iran's nuclear program and to get oil traffic moving through the strait of Hormuz.
The postponement, announced just hours before the meeting was scheduled to begin, has fueled uncertainty about whether a lasting truce can be found to end the Middle East conflict. The move has raised immediate questions over the fate of the agreement, as key details had yet to be worked out.