U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, IRANIAN FM TO SKIP G8

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.06.2009 10:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not
travel to Italy and Greece this week for international meetings
because of an injury to her arm, her deputy said.

Clinton tripped and fell in the State Department’s basement on Thursday
and had successful two-hour surgery on Saturday to repair her broken
right elbow.

Undersecretary of State William Burns and special envoys Richard
Holbrooke and George Mitchell will represent the United States at
meetings in Trieste, Italy, where the Group of Eight foreign ministers
will gather this week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg
told reporters.

Steinberg said he would replace Clinton in Corfu, Greece, where
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Foreign
Ministers are meeting June 27-28, Reuters reported.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not confirm his
participation.