Secretary Blinken’s Call with Palestinian President Abbas
The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to a negotiated two-state solution and opposition to policies that endanger its viability. The Secretary underscored the urgent need for Israelis and Palestinians to take steps that restore calm and our strong opposition to unilateral measures that […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress.) Dmytro and I have basically been spending the day together in one way or another. We just came from the panel discussion. But what I can report is that from the meetings that we’ve had here over the last 24 hours with so many different countries, the solidarity with and support […]
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I think, as you know, the DPRK once again launched a ballistic missile – this one apparently falling in the exclusive economic zone of Japan. That’s happened before in recent months, but this is yet again a provocative act by North Korea in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions. We call on others […]

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. They underscored their concern about Iran’s nuclear escalation and its lack of cooperation with the International […]
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good evening, everyone. It’s a great pleasure and, I would say, actually an honor to be with President Sandu, someone whose leadership in an incredibly challenging time we greatly admire. And we stand strongly with Moldova in support of its security, its independence, its territorial integrity, the very important reform efforts that the president and […]