WASHINGTON
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has cut short his Europe trip after a leg injury in a bicycle accident in the French Alps Sunday morning.
A helicopter airlifted Kerry to a Geneva hospital, who is in stable condition, the U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
The U.S. secretary, who was in Switzerland for talks on Iran’s nuclear program, is expected to make a full recovery, Kirby added.
"Given the injury is near the site of his prior hip surgery, he will return to Boston today [Sunday] to seek treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital with his doctor who did the prior surgery," the spokesman said.
"But after further consultation it was sensible for him to remain in the hospital for observation overnight for purely precautionary measures and fly home tomorrow [Monday]," Kirby said in a late Sunday statement.
He also added that Kerry was in "great spirit and active" and carried out several phone calls, including with President Barack Obama
Kerry will miss his visit to Paris for an anti-Daesh coalition meeting, as well as what would have been his first official trip to Spain’s capital Madrid. The accident occurred in Scionzier, France, near the border with Switzerland.
Kerry was to sign an agreement with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. Spain approved an agreement Friday to host a permanent military presence of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in the southern province of Seville.
