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Vice President JD Vance Participates in a Quadrilateral Meeting with Pakistan, Qatar, and Iran, Jun. 21, 2026

June 21, 2026 · The White House · 0:09:25

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance participated in a quadrilateral meeting with Pakistan, Qatar, and Iran at Bürgenstock, Switzerland on June 21, 2026, in footage carried on the White House channel under the Lucerne dateline. The Prime Minister of Pakistan opened by thanking President Trump for his “visionary and very dynamic leadership, which has resulted in this meeting here today in beautiful Bürgenstock,” and thanked Vance, the Prime Minister of Qatar, and Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir for their roles in bringing the parties together.

Vance framed what he said was already accomplished and what remained: “The opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the ending of the Iranian nuclear program, all of these things have already been accomplished. The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf? Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently?” He credited Field Marshal Munir’s statesmanship — “I’ve probably talked to Field Marshal Munir more than I’ve talked to anybody else over the last 3 months” — and stated the American offer: “If their leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability, if they are willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country.”

“This is a historic meeting,” Vance said. “Never before, outside of Islamabad and here… has the Iranian and American leadership met at such a high level.” The Prime Minister of Qatar followed with his own welcome and thanks to the leaders who initiated the process.

Why it matters

The quadrilateral format is the diplomatic machinery behind the Iran agreement: Pakistan and Qatar as the intermediaries who, by the participants’ own account, carried the talks to this point, sitting with the American Vice President and the Iranians at one table. Vance reported the meeting’s results the following day in his Lucerne remarks, paged separately in this collection.

Scoreboard watch

The meeting’s stated premise — Hormuz open and Iran’s nuclear program ended, as the Vice President put it — is the claim set this chronicle’s scoreboard tracks against the inspections and traffic record as it develops.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Participates in Quadrilateral Meeting with Pakistan, Qatar, and Iran,” Lucerne, Switzerland, June 21, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the participants at the meeting.