SECRETARY KERRY: Hello.

QUESTION: Did you see --

SECRETARY KERRY: I’ll give you the low-down (inaudible).

QUESTION: -- anything about Assad’s comments?

SECRETARY KERRY: I beg your pardon?

QUESTION: Assad, he pledged he would take back every inch of Syria.

SECRETARY KERRY: Yes, I know. I know. I talked to Lavrov about it. He says that the transition is still the goal and everything about Geneva is still holding, and the effort to get the ceasefire in place is what they are working on right now.

MR KIRBY: Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

QUESTION: Thank you.

SECRETARY KERRY: And we will follow up on that in the next days.