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Kerry Heads to Berlin on Next Leg of Foreign Tour
[VOA News] With the crisis in Syria topping his agenda, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
is in London on the first leg of an 11-day visit that includes Turkey and the Middle East.

Kerry's next stop in Berlin will be brief, but significant. He is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
after she returns from a day trip to Turkey. Kerry also is to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Analyst Stefan Meister of the German Council on Foreign Relations says the ongoing Syria conflict will not be high on Lavrov's list of things to discuss with Kerry.

"These deaths of Russian children in the United States will be the key issue in these meetings. It is very emotional right now in Russia," Meister says.
Posted by: Fred 2013-02-26
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