U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 12 to attend the Egypt Economic Development Conference, Jen Psaki, U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Monday. Psaki stated that Secretary Kerry will also meet with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other senior Egyptian leaders to discuss a range of bilateral and global issues, including Coalition efforts against Islamic State (IS), the situation in Libya, and the ongoing crisis in Syria. She added that the visit comes in the frame of the United States' commitment to strengthening its long-term strategic and economic partnership with Egypt, noting that her country supports the Egyptian government efforts to grow the economy. "We continue to work with the Egyptian government to help the Egyptian people stabilize and grow the economy, create jobs, educate young people, improve access to health care, and to help realize the aspirations of the Egyptian people for an inclusive, rights- and freedoms-respecting, and peaceful political climate," Psaki said.
