The US Secretary of State John Kerry has been flown to hospital after a bike accident in France.
Kerry was reported to have suffered an injury to his leg following the incident in Haute-Savoie, but was described as being in a stable condition.
In a statement, a spokesman for the State Department said Kerry was flown to Geneva University Hospital following a crash near Scionzier in the French Alps.
Kerry did not lose consciousness, and was accompanied by a motorcade at the time that include paramedics and a doctor.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said later that Kerry was undergoing X-rays on his right leg, and that the crash was believed to have been caused by the politician’s bike hitting the curb.
Scionzier, where the crash took place, is located near Chamonix in the French Alps, just over the border from Geneva.
The Secretary of State has been working in Geneva to try and come to a nuclear agreement with Iran and a host of world powers, and held six hours of meetings with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Saturday.
Kerry had been planning to travel on Sunday to Madrid for talks with Spain’s king and prime minister, and from there to Paris for an international conference on combatting ISIS.
Speaking yesterday, Zarif implied that there had been no major breakthrough and that the talks would be continuing for up to a month.
“We have decided to work full time for the next three or four weeks to see whether or not it will be possible to reach an agreement,” he said.
There was no immediate confirmation from the State Department as to whether talks will be postponed following Kerry’s injury, reports The Independent.
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