QUESTION: Okay, onto Austria. So do you know who yet – do you know yet whom – with whom he will be meeting?

MR KIRBY: As I talked about yesterday, this – there will be bilateral and multilateral discussions in Vienna on Friday, and the participation is very much still being worked.

QUESTION: Okay.

QUESTION: Who has been invited?

MR KIRBY: I’m not going to get into specific invitations at this point. It’s – except to say, and I’m mindful of some press reporting out there recently, that it’s important for us, and we’ve said this all along – the Secretary has talked about the need to make sure that key partners are in these discussions. And as I said yesterday, there’s a series of bilateral discussions that are going on – some involve the United States, many don’t – as well as multilateral meetings that continue to occur – some involve the United States, some don’t. The Secretary wants to encourage these kinds of conversations and discussions as we continue to look for solutions to what is a difficult political situation in Syria, and a transition that can be enduring and lasting and lead to a better government for the Syrian people.

As such, in looking for different multilateral settings and for the right key partners to be present, we do expect in this case that Iran will be invited to participate.

QUESTION: Sorry, you used the word “key partners.” Does that mean that the Administration considers Iran to be a key partner?

MR KIRBY: I wouldn’t go so far as to say that, but I just mean that you need key – as I said yesterday, there are many stakeholders in Syria and what’s going on. Iran, though we do not certainly by any means approve of the destabilizing activities that they continue to pursue in Syria, recognize that and always have recognize, that at some point in the discussion moving towards a political transition we have to have a conversion and a dialogue with Iran. And so I wouldn’t call them a partner necessarily. But obviously, there are many stakeholders in this, and so we do anticipate —