Informal Communication

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Dean Acheson Auditorium

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  It’s genuinely a pleasure to welcome Foreign Secretary Cameron here to the State Department, to Washington.  The infamous special relationship has never been more important than it is now, and I think that’s reflected in the conversations we’ve had.  Actually, we began on the phone almost immediately after your appointment, then we were in Brussels together jus

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Brussels, Belgium

European Council Building

HIGH REPRESENTATIVE BORRELL: Good morning. Good morning. I’m very happy to welcome you, Secretary Blinken, in Brussels. We just had a very good bilateral meeting marking our great transatlantic cooperation. Now we will co-chair the EU-U.S. Energy Council, and later we will see each other also at the NATO Ministerial.

Allow me some words about our bilateral discussion.  Certainly

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Brussels, Belgium

Berlaymont

HIGH REPRESENTATIVE BORRELL:  I’m very pleased to welcome Secretary Blinken in person here in Brussels after our initial virtual exchanges.  Today we open a new chapter in our relations marked by stronger cooperation on key foreign policy and security issues.  I’m happy to see that our meeting confirms that a strong European Union-U.S. partnership is crucial to support democratic values as well as glo

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I send my congratulations to the citizens of Belgium on your national day.

The United States and Belgium share a deep and longstanding friendship, which continues to thrive based on close people-to-people ties and shared values of freedom and democracy. Belgium’s scientific contributions to counter the global COVID-19 pandemic have supported our shared goals of health and economic

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