[ARABNEWS] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
flew into Munich on Saturday and met with Omans ailing Sultan Qaboos.
"Sultan Caboose"??
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State...
said the purpose of the private meeting was to express his gratitude for their longstanding and strong relationship.
The sultan has not returned to Oman since traveling overseas for medical tests six months ago.
Kerry was only accompanied by one aide for the private talks, with the small number of news hounds traveling with the top US diplomat en route for India barred from access or from photographing the event.
Qaboos, 74, traveled to Germany in July for medical tests. Since then, he has made only one appearance, in a brief video that was broadcast on national television on Nov. 5.
In it, Qaboos spoke of what he called the good results of his treatment, but added that his condition requires monitoring.
Kerry last met with the sultan in May 2013 during an official trip to Muscat.