U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet G7 counterparts in France on Friday on the war in Iran, the State Department announced.
The trip comes after President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. has been talking with Iran as he put on pause his threat to destroy the country’s electricity production.
Rubio, in his first foreign trip since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, will speak to counterparts on the “Russia-Ukraine war, the situation in the Middle East and threats across the world to peace and stability,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.
France is the current head of the Group of Seven, the club of industrialized democracies that also includes Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan. Previously, their foreign ministers on Saturday came together to urge an “immediate and unconditional” end to Iranian attacks on U.S. allies in the Middle East.
