US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he is to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he is to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a day after the Egyptian government appealed a verdict which labeled the Palestinian movement Hamas as a "terrorist organization".

The top US diplomat, who is attending an investment conference in the Red Sea resort, will also meet Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
  
Egypt hopes the foreign investor conference will jump-start its battered economy while showcasing international support for Sisi who has positioned himself as a frontline ally in the regional fight against ISIL terrorist.
  
Kerry's talks with Abbas and King Abdullah II are likely to focus on the economic crisis facing the Palestinian Authority and could also include Sisi. "We continue to be concerned about the PA," a State Department official told reporters travelling with Kerry on his plane. "It's really part of the continuous, ongoing conversation we're having with the critical stakeholders here," the official said, asking not to be named.
  
Kerry will fly to Lausanne in landlocked Switzerland on Sunday for fresh negotiations with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
  
With uncertainty still surrounding the deal, the State Department has not said how long Kerry will stay in Lausanne, nor when he is expected to return to Washington. Zarif is also due to meet with EU partners Britain, France and Germany in Brussels on Monday.
  
"There's no deal yet," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki insisted on CNN Thursday. "The primary objective of any deal is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," she added.
  
But the negotiations fuelled political tensions in Washington earlier this week when 47 Republican senators wrote to Iran warning that Congress could modify any deal struck with President Barack Obama's administration.
  
Kerry hit out at that suggestion, saying it was "flat wrong," and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on a visit to Washington also denounced the political stunt, which he feared could undermine the talks. "This is not just an issue of American domestic politics, but it affects the negotiations we are holding in Geneva," Steinmeier said before meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. "Obviously, mistrust is growing on... the Iranian side (as to whether) we are really serious with the negotiations."