Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, where US President Donald Trump is slated to be a featured speaker.
US envoy Khalilzad meets with leaders of Islamist group in what might be resumption of stalled peace talks
Merkel, who has been German chancellor for 13 years, lauded compromise as a virtue in international relations in an address on Wednesday to global political and business leaders in Davos.
The kingdom has sent one of its strongest delegations ever to the Swiss mountain resort and packed its top executives' agendas with meetings with international peers.
Pompeo recently toured the Middle East and is planning a summit in Warsaw next month.
The data trust concept aims to provide a new universally-accessible model for data sharing and provide open source solutions free to the world, but is not yet applied to the smart mobility world.
"I will always put America first, but America first does not mean America alone."
He added that under the proposal, "Israel would have to pay."