MS. HARF: Like a press briefing. Matt, get us started.

QUESTION: I can start. Sir, so you just spoke to Foreign Minister Lavrov, and apparently the conversation was about – mostly about the Middle East, ahead of your trip to Rome to see Bibi and then --

SECRETARY KERRY: Yeah.

QUESTION: -- onward to see the Europeans. I’m just wondering – so what is the (inaudible) position on that at the moment in terms of the UN Security Council? Is there a resolution that you think you could support? Is that why you’re going, or is this more to try and convince people to hold off?

SECRETARY KERRY: No. We’re not in a – convincing people of anything. But what we’re trying to do is figure out what makes sense and what is – what the lay of – we’re trying to figure out a way to help defuse the tensions and reduce the potential for more conflict, and we’re exploring various possibilities to that end, which is why I’m also meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

QUESTION: Right. But I mean, is there a – obviously, there are people who want the UN resolution before Christmas, before the end of the year; the Jordanians, also the French, are pushing one.

SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we’re having --

QUESTION: I mean, how does that factor into – or how can it?

SECRETARY KERRY: There are a lot of different folks pushing in different directions out there, and the question is can we all pull in the same direction. And that’s what we’re looking at.

MS. HARF: Patricia, you ready?

QUESTION: Yeah.

SECRETARY KERRY: And I may have a couple of other meetings while I’m there. We’ll let you know.

QUESTION: In your remarks with President Santos, you referred to wanting things to move quickly, more quickly, in the Colombia peace talks.

SECRETARY KERRY: We need to – yes, that’s right, that’s right.

QUESTION: Yeah, and I wanted to ask what he meant by that.

SECRETARY KERRY: Okay.

QUESTION: And also, you referred to an exchange of homework. And is the comments – is the concern about moving more quickly, does that say – what does that say about the talks? Does it say that --

SECRETARY KERRY: No, it doesn’t say – Santos said it. I followed up on his comments. And he specifically said to me that it’s important to emphasize the issue of time. And the reason is that talks in any negotiation just can’t go on interminably. I mean, we’ve said that about Iran; we’ve said it about other things. Different external pressures begin to change people’s patience and possibilities.

So we think that it’s important to accelerate the – President Santos specifically asked us to help to think about ways in which we might be able to contribute to the – to progress, and we’re going to do that. That’s the homework. And he likewise is defining the – and has specifically asked us to examine a number of things to see if we can be helpful. So we will do that. There are issues, obviously, where America’s role is important – extradition is an example, other issues. So – security issues. And so we will very much respond and engage in a constructive effort.

QUESTION: What do you see is the U.S. role in Colombia after – once there is an agreement?

SECRETARY KERRY: Well, there’s a whole post-conflict plan, which we’ve urged – President Obama specifically urged President Santos to think about. And in fact, Colombia, to its credit, has taken enormous initiative in implementing already with land restitution initiatives, with the reintegration program, with agricultural and other reforms. Those are all part of the post-conflict reconstruction plan, which they’ve already started to work on. And there’s more that could be done, and they’ve asked us to work with them on those kinds of things too. President Obama has encouraged them to embrace even more aggressively some of the options for post-conflict.

QUESTION: Do you think --

SECRETARY KERRY: Another example is the justice system, the law enforcement, the various components of that.

QUESTION: And what about the security role?

SECRETARY KERRY: There’s a big security partnership component, and that has to be examined also. Sure. This is what we’re going to do. We’re going to kind of really sit down and analyze each of these and see where what we’re doing might tweaked – and we’re doing a lot – and where there are places that we could do more or that we’re not doing something, in ways that also could bear on the negotiations. Because what the post-conflict playing field looks like could help people to make a decision that is more worthwhile than not to engage them.

MS. HARF: Thank you. Let’s do our last – go ahead.

QUESTION: Just a quick follow-up on Matt’s question. This issue of Israel came up in the conversation with the foreign minister – the French foreign minister?

MS. HARF: Yes --

SECRETARY KERRY: Sure. Of course. Absolutely. We talked about it when I saw him. I called him and talked on the phone. We’ve talked about it in several trips I’ve made to Paris. And we agreed we would talk about it yesterday. It was one of the reasons for seeing him here, seeing him in Lima. And we did talk about the potential of – about variations on approaches and different potential impacts of different options.

MS. HARF: Great. Thank you, guys.