The US is sending a top official to Cairo for talks with interim Egyptian government leaders.
Under Secretary of State Bill Burns is the the first high-ranking administration member to visit the country since Mohamed Morsi was removed from the president's job.
The State Department said he will be there until Tuesday, adding that he would "underscore US support for the Egyptian people".
The news came as caretaker premier Hazem al-Beblawi resumed talks on forming his cabinet, 11 days after Mr Morsi was ousted in a July 3 military coup amid massive protests against his year-long rule.
Prominent liberal leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who assisted in the talks Beblawi began a day earlier with ministerial candidates, has been sworn in as interim vice president for foreign relations, the presidency said.
Mohamed ElBaradei is now interim vice president for foreign relations In a brief statement, the State Department said Mr Burns would "meet with interim government officials as well as civil society and business leaders.
"In all these meetings, he will underscore US support for the Egyptian people, an end to all violence, and a transition leading to an inclusive, democratically elected civilian government."
On Friday, the US for the first time called for Mr Morsi's release from custody, and again condemned a wave of arbitrary arrests of members of his Muslim Brotherhood.
Since July 3, Washington has struggled to define whether Egypt's first democratically elected president was the victim of a coup.
If he was it would legally force a freeze on some $1.5 billion in vital military and economic US assistance to Cairo.
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