US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) speaks with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (L) during an international and interministerial meeting in a bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Center in Paris on June 3, 2016.
French President Francois Hollande urged Israel and the Palestinians to make a "courageous choice" for peace as he opened a conference on the conflict in Paris on June 3, 2016. The meeting is aiming to lay the ground for a fully-fledged peace conference to be held by the end of the year but few believe that genuine progress will be made. "The discussion on the conditions of a lasting agreement between Israelis and Palestinians must take into account the whole of the region," he told representatives of some 25 countries, as well as the United Nations, European Union and Arab League.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held an impromptu meeting on Tuesday with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and talked about the need to defeat Islamic State (ISIS) a day after suicide bombers struck three Saudi cities, the U.S. State Department said.
Kerry and Jubeir also discussed the need for a political transition in Syria, the situation in Libya, the effort to reach a political resolution in Yemen and recent developments between the Israelis and Palestinians, the department said in a statement.
