U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, the third-ranking U.S. diplomat, also will travel to Abu Dhabi to brief Rice on his meeting in Geneva on Saturday with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, McCormack said. Rice will depart the UAE for Singapore to attend a ministers meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) before visiting Perth, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand for talks with officials from those countries. On her return, Rice will make stops in Apia, Samoa and Hawaii.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/574697