US Secretary of State to meet Russian and Iranian counterparts next week

The US State Department announced on February 26 that US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts next week in Switzerland regarding the situation in eastern Ukraine and Tehran's nuclear issue.

Speaking to reporters, US State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said Secretary of State Kerry, scheduled to arrive in Geneva on March 2, will discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the situation in Ukraine and "other regional issues of mutual concern."

US Secretary of State John Kerry. (Source: AFP/TTXVN)

Ms. Psaki added that the head of the US diplomatic service will then travel to Montreux to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, part of a larger effort by the P5+1 Group (including the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) to reach a comprehensive agreement by the end of June 2015 regarding the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program./.

According to VNA