Despite Brexit, Kerry says, EU and U.S. must work closely together

Refering to the need to address the risk from Islamic State and clashes from Libya to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that the United States, European Union and Britain must participate nearly notwithstanding Britain's choice to leave the EU.

"There is a proceeding with criticality to this relationship, and something that I need to stress in coming here today to Europe is the means by which imperative the relationship of Europe, the EU, is to the United States and to the world," Kerry said in comments with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

The remarks by Kerry, who is because of visit Brussels and London on Monday, seem to underscore worries that the political change in Europe could confound U.S. President Barack Obama's need objective of dealing with a worldwide coalition to overcome furnished Islamic activists.

In the meantime, Kerry said he and Obama are "completely persuaded that we will have the capacity to work through this in a sensible, mindful manner that takes the best qualities of the EU, the best qualities of the commercial center, the best advantages of our national security and global security, and attempts to keep them moving in the right bearing for our nations."

"I have doubtlessly about our capacity to have the capacity to do that," he said.

Kerry, who was already planned to be in Rome to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, included stops in Brussels and London after the result of the Brexit vote.

He will meet European Union remote approach boss Federica Mogherini in Brussels and British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond in London on Monday to guarantee them of proceeded with U.S. engagement, a senior State Department official said.

Kerry emphasized that the United States will keep up "a nearby and extraordinary association with Great Britain."

U.S. President Barack Obama had encouraged voters in Britain - long seen as Washington's nearest European associate - not to endorse Brexit. Washington is currently uncertain that voters in other EU part nations may look to take after Britain out the entryway.

(Reporting by Warren Strobel; Editing by Catherine Evans and Stephen Powell)
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