U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Stuart E. Jones, meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan before a session of the World Economic Forum in Dead Sea, Jordan, on May 26, 2013. Photo: U.S. State Department.

Reuters – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Jordan’s King Abdullah on Friday for talks about a framework for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians by the end of next month.

Kerry held two hours of talks with the monarch during an unscheduled visit to Jordan’s Red Sea resort of Aqaba after leaving Rome, where he attended a conference on Libya and held meetings on the crisis in Ukraine.

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