WASHINGTON(Sputnik) — US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with refugees and hosting American families in the US state of Virginia on Monday to honor World Refugee Day, the State Department announced in a press release on Monday.
“US Secretary of State John Kerry will be attending an interfaith Iftar reception this evening at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society center in Sterling, Virginia, where he is looking forward to meeting with refugee families and the communities that have so generously welcomed them to the United States,” the release said.
The State Department noted that Kerry will be joined by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt.
Ahead of their visit to Virginia, Kerry and Jolie Pitt will hold a round table with State Department’s employees who are former refugees or the refugees’ children, the release added.
June 20 marks World Refugee Day, celebrated since 2001.
