US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York to discuss implementation of the Iran nuclear deal before leaving for Egypt later this week.
Before leaving for the region, Kerry would meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif tomorrow to discuss implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in New York on April 19, the State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
The JCPOA is an international agreement on the nuclear programme of Iran that was reached in Vienna on July 14, 2015 between Iran, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States-plus Germany) and the European Union.
Under the agreement, Iran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 per cent and reduce by about two-thirds the number of its gas centrifuges for 13 years among other things.
Kerry and Zarif would follow up on earlier conversations regarding regional issues, including reaching a political resolution to the Syria crisis, Kirby said.
Kerry would then travel to Egypt on April 20 to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues.
"On April 21, Kerry will join President Obama in Riyadh at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit," Kirby said.
