Secretary of State John Kerry will be discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital this afternoon and return to his home on Beacon Hill, his office said today.

He will make a brief statement and take some questions from the press.

Kerry, 71, broke his femur and damaged a replacement hip when he fell off his bicycle in France on May 31.

He was operated on June 2 by Dr. Dennis Burke, the Mass. General surgeon who performed Kerry’s hip replacements in 2009 and 2010.

Burke released a statement last week saying the four-hour surgery was “uncomplicated.”

“I anticipate a short hospitalization, a full and complete recovery and a return to normal function,” Burke said in the statement. “I do not anticipate that this will interfere with his duties as secretary of state.”

Kerry has worked on nuclear negotiations with Iran and other high-priority diplomatic issues by phone while hospitalized, officials said.

He plans to travel to Europe this month for the final days of negotiations with Iran before negotiators reach their self-imposed deadline of June 30 to wrap up a comprehensive accord.