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Gilmore meets new US Secretary of State John Kerry

The pair agreed to formally meet again in Washington DC around St Patrick’s Day.

TÁNAISTE EAMON GILMORE will be on the other side of the Atlantic for St Patrick’s Day festivities next month, his department has said.

The Foreign Affairs Minister told US Secretary of State John Kerry that they will formally meet in Washington DC on or around 17 March.

The pair had an informal meeting before the transatlantic dinner in Rome yesterday as part of Kerry’s whirlwind tour of Europe.

Talks over dinner centred on the trade and investment partnership between the US and the EU. The conflict in Syria was also discussed, as were Iran, Afghanistan, Mali, the Sahel and the Middle East.

Gilmore believes there is now a political commitment on both sides of the ocean to proceed with a trade agreement.

“I emphasised the dividends of a transatlantic trade agreement, both from an economic and a diplomatic perspective, and the huge potential for jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. Secretary Kerry echoed these sentiments.”

Kerry told Gilmore that he plans to visit Israel with the US President in an attempt to secure the two-state solution.

The Secretary of State, who recently took over from Hillary Clinton, is on an 11-day trip to Europe and the Middle East – his first tour since taking office.

Last night’s dinner was attended by 36 foreign ministers and was hosted by the Italian Foreign Ministry. NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton were also in attendance.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:19 PM

    Fair play to him, nice gesture

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:28 PM

    Such a nice touch fair play to him. Even if his country’s justice system let everyone down.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:50 PM

    Such a nice thing for him to do. Nice to show she hasn’t been forgotten by the country she made her second home.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:39 PM

    I can’t believe this happened almost a year ago, poor Tom her husband…but what a wonderful wonderful gesture on behalf of the people of Melbourne!

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    Aug 12th 2013, 9:16 PM

    Still very sad to think about a year later.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:45 PM

    Very thoughtful gesture.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 9:46 PM

    Please don’t call the girl by her surname! Her name is Jill.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:07 PM

    Agree Michelle..’Meagher ‘had been living in Moreland’ is inapropriate, her name was Jill.

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    Aug 13th 2013, 5:59 AM

    A murder that should of never happened if the idiots on the board had done their job properly

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