Rome ( CNN ) -- Meeting in Rome with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh , Secretary of State John Kerry announced Thursday that the United States would provide an additional $ 100 million in humanitarian assistance for refugees fleeing the fighting in Syria , bringing the total amount of aid to $ 510 million . Kerry also said that he is working to bring all parties together to create a transitional government and that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would not be part of that government . Jordan , which is being inundated by a wave of Syrian refugees , will receive nearly $ 43 million , which will support United Nations humanitarian programs in the region . Kerry said the fourth-largest `` city '' in Jordan today is a tent city filled with Syrians fleeing their country , adding that `` Jordan feels the impact of what is happening more than any other country . '' The foreign minister gave a bleak assessment , saying the 525,000 refugees make up 10 % of Jordan 's population . He said the number is expected to increase to 20 % or 25 % by year 's end , and then to 40 % of the population by the middle of 2014 . `` No country can cope with the numbers that are as huge as I described , '' he said . The minister said he was `` encouraged '' by Kerry 's meetings in Moscow this week , at which the U.S. and Russia agreed to push for an international conference on Syria that would possibly be held by the end of the month and include , for the first time , representatives of the Syrian government as well as the opposition fighting that government . Judeh said he was leaving Rome for meetings in Moscow . Kerry said he had asked Robert Ford , the U.S. ambassador to Syria , to travel to Istanbul to confer with opposition leaders . He said that on Wednesday , he discussed the plan for the conference by phone with the foreign ministers of most of the countries involved in trying to find a political solution , as well as with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon . `` There 's a very positive response and very strong desire to move to this conference , '' he said , `` and to at least exhaust the possibilities of finding a political way forward . ''
The U.S. secretary of state met with Jordan 's foreign minister in Rome . He said there will be $ 100 million more in humanitarian assistance for war refugees . Jordan , which is being inundated by a wave of Syrian refugees , will receive nearly $ 43 million . Comment: