She will travel to Havana for a third round of talks since presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced, on 17 December, they had agreed to begin mending relations.
They had arrived in China on Oct. 30 for an eighth round of talks between Tibetan and Chinese officials.
For the first month of school, she didn't talk at all.
However, after about the seventh month of hospitalization, the patients avoided talking about death in general.
Many think the intransigence could pose a significant obstacle to the Obama administration's hopes for a second round of peace talks next month.
A second round of talks was held in Bonn in June.
She and Roberta Jacobson, assistant secretary of state, are holding talks Friday at the State Department after a first round of talks last month in Havana.
A first round of talks was postponed.
January, first month of the Gregorian calendar.
Both sides agreed for a second round of long overdue high-level talks, either in late October or early November.
And a three-week ceasefire in Yemen's ruthless civil war collapsed on January 2nd, endangering a second round of peace talks scheduled for this month.
