<a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=Federica+Mogherini&family=editorial&specificpeople=7400570 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'>Federica Mogherini</a>, Vice President and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, delivers a statement to reporters before meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the Treaty Room at the State Department May 4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Kerry announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to extend the Syria truce to Aleppo and said that President Bashar al-Assad should start a political transition by August 1 to leave office and end the 5-year-old civil war.