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  • Video Remarks at the Global Health Security and Diplomacy Symposium

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) “The Power and Purpose of American Diplomacy in a New Era”

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.  Good morning, everyone.

    AUDIENCE:  Good morning.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Dean Steinberg, Jim, thank you for the honor of joining the SAIS community to help inaugurate this truly magnificent new home.

    Jim has contributed so much over his remarkable career, but his most lasting contribution is the generation of thinkers, the generation of d

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    Regions: Armenia , Australia , Canada , China, Ethiopia , France , India , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Italy , Japan , Korea, North , Lebanon , New Zealand , Russia , Sweden , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Waihiga Mwaura of BBC Focus on Africa

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    QUESTION:  Well, we’re now joined by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the Black Sea Grain Initiative and food security.  He’s joining us from Washington, D.C.

    Secretary Blinken, thanks so much for making time for Focus on Africa.  And I’ll get straight into it.  Russia says it will only return to the Black Sea grain deal if reconnected to the SWIFT payment system.  And all this is happening w

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    Regions: Niger , Russia , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Addis Ababa University

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good evening, everyone.  It is great to be back in Africa, but also to make my first appearance to Ethiopia as Secretary of State.

    I’m here in Ethiopia – and then on to Niger – to reaffirm the pledge that President Biden made at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit late last year.  As he put it, the United States is “all in on Africa, and all in with Africa.”  That mea

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    Regions: China, Ethiopia , Iran , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Zambia

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Blinken and Senegalese President and AU Chairperson Macky Sall Before Their Meeting

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