General McChrystal is due next week in Berlin, where he will hold talks with the Chancellery and the Defense Ministry and will brief a closed session of Parliament's foreign affairs committee.
The first major test of the understanding will come in the next few days, when Kerry is expected to present the details to a closed session of the Senate foreign relations committee before a vote on a bill that would give Congress the power to accept or reject any nuclear agreement and another that would impose new sanctions.
WASHINGTON — Two days ago, during an off-the-record session with a group of foreign policy experts, Vice President Dick Cheney got a question he did not want to answer.
"We want them to continue working," Mr Fischer said after he and his French counterpart, Dominique de Villepin, had appeared before a joint session of their countries' parliamentary foreign affairs committees.
In his speech, originally scheduled to commemorate the much-trumpeted "vision of two states" he announced five years ago, he promised Mr Abbas $270m in aid, a loans programme for Palestinian businesses and an "international meeting" on the conflict which may well be just a special session of an already-existing foreign donors' forum.
I've also asked Secretary Clinton to travel to Geneva on Monday, where a number of foreign ministers will convene for a session of the Human Rights Council.
Although Americans are said to generally resist the charms of foreign players, the fans at the evening session would have enjoyed the other quarterfinal between Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands and Fernando González of Chile, relegated to the afternoon session.
In addition to Taiwan, this week's meetings, which included a five-hour session with Deputy Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, covered a broad array of foreign policy issues including North Korea, tensions between India and Pakistan and relations with Russia.
US President Barack Obama chaired the session and said nations must prevent the recruitment and financing of foreign fighters.
