WEB DESK
With less than 10 days left for the new administration, US Secretary of State John Kerry would leave for a nearly week-long final official visit that would take him to Vietnam, France, Britain and Switzerland.
The American diplomat would return to Washington on January 18, two days before President-elect Donald Trump would be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
On January 13, Kerry will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam with senior Vietnamese officials to discuss a number of bilateral and regional issues. Later that day, he will travel to Ho Chi Minh City for meetings with senior officials there. He will also deliver a speech on US-Vietnam relations, his spokesman John Kirby said.
On January 14, Kerry will travel to Ca Mau province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region.
Kerry will then travel to Paris, on January 15 to attend a conference on Middle East peace hosted by French President Francois Hollande.
In London on January 15, Kerry will meet with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and discuss the situation in Syria and other global and regional issues, Kirby said.
On January 17th to 18th, Kerry will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.