U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit France and Kuwait from January 11 to January 15, to discuss peace initiative in the Middle East. "In Paris Secretary Kerry will attend a ministerial meeting of the London 11 to coordinate with key international partners on Syria in advance of the Geneva II conference," the State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said during the daily press briefing. "Kerry will also meet with representatives of the Arab League's Arab peace initiative follow-up committee to update them on the ongoing final status negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as part of his continued engagement with our Arab League partners on the issue," she added. "In Kuwait City Secretary Kerry will lead the U.S. delegation to the second international humanitarian pledging conference for Syria in Kuwait," Psaki told reporters, adding that the secretary will "discuss the critical nature of international contributions toward the 2014 U.N. appeals for Syria as well as other humanitarian issues surrounding the crisis in Syria."
