Informal Communication

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Paris, France

OECD

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, and thank you all so much. Mathias, I must start by saying that to be linked to George Marshall is humbling, reminds me a little bit about how Allen & Rossi must have felt. And for those of you who don’t remember Allen & Rossi, that’s just the point. Americans in this audience may appreciate that they were the act that followed the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show

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Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good evening.  I’m pleased to be meeting with Sergey for the first time in my capacity as the Secretary of State.  And as President Biden shared with President Putin, we seek a predictable, stable relationship with Russia.  We think that’s good for our people, good for the Russian people, and, indeed, g

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center

QUESTION: So welcome to Iceland, Mr. Blinken.

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. It’s wonderful to be here.

QUESTION: You met with Iceland’s – Icelandic officials yesterday. Both our prime minister and our president said in interviews after meeting with you that they felt kind of more harmony with the foreign policy of the new

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Ann, so good to see you.  Thank you for being here.  We’ve already had the opportunity to work together on a number of things, and that’s a reflection of the fact that the United States and Sweden are working together in so many different areas, whether it’s climate, whether it’s COVID, whether it’s on security matters.  And, of course, your cha

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  It is – it’s so great, Ine, to see you, and we were just saying we’ve had the opportunity to see each other together in Brussels at NATO, but it was mask to mask, and now it’s finally face to face.  So that’s really, really good news.  But beyond that, just wonderful to have this opportunity to compare notes on lots of things that Norway and the Unite

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Marc, good morning.

FOREIGN MINISTER GARNEAU:  Good morning, Tony.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Great to see you.  So pleased to have a chance to spend some time with my friend, the minister of foreign affairs.  We have been meeting in all sorts of places – in Brussels for NATO, in London at the G7, now here in R

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

On behalf of the Government of the United States of America and the American people, I