16.01.2016 - 09:51 [ Außenministerium der Vwereinigten Staaten von Amerika ]

Remarks With Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir

QUESTION: Mr. Foreign Minister, are you prepared to resume Syria’s support group cooperation with Iran?

FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: We never left the Syria support group meeting. Our relationship with Iran is separate from the relationship with everybody else in terms of the Syria cooperation group. Our objective is to work through the process that was started in Vienna in order to arrive at a peaceful settlement based on Geneva I and the outcomes of the Vienna talks and the most recent United Nations Security Council resolution.

SECRETARY KERRY: Let me just say to everybody we – I’m very appreciative of the Foreign Minister making the effort to be able to be here so we could discuss a lot of issues. We are not finished. We wanted to have a chance to say a word to you. But we’re going to be continuing our conversation. And we agree – first of all, the alliance, the friendship between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains a linchpin of our efforts in the region; it’s important. We both agree with that on both sides, and we have a lot of work to do together.