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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Franklin Room
MR GLUSKI: Well, Mr. Secretary, this is the second time I’ve had the pleasure of introducing you at the Washington conference. But a year ago, we were all online, and most of us were still stuck at home, so I’m going to venture that this will be an even better experience for all of us.
In the year that you’ve – since you’ve last joined us, a lot has happened, to say the least. It
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you all.
I suspect that most of you are looking forward to what will be a well-deserved break. It’s been quite a year.
When I walked into the State Department on my first day as Secretary, we had COVID-19 lockdowns around the world.
Less than 1 percent of the United States was vaccinated, compared to more than 60
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Jakarta, Indonesia
Universitas Indonesia
MS KUSUMAYATI: Excellency, ambassadors, ASEAN Secretary General, Honorable Rector of Universitas Indonesia, and the chairperson of the U.S.-Indonesia Board of Trustees, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
First of all, let’s praise our God Almighty for the blessings that we receive, so today we can gather here in healthy and wealthy condition. I am honored to extend our wa
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Department of State
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Great to see you folks on the screen. Greetings. It’s a particular pleasure to be with all of you today, and I don’t know if I’m kicking it off or if we have one of our colleagues doing that.
MR MURRAY: I’ll go ahead and get it started for you, Mr. Secretary.
SECRETARY BLINK
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone, and thanks to each of our leaders for being here today. To those joining us from around the world, welcome. I hope to spend as much of this time in discussion with you, so let me be brief at the start. But I want to say why meeting with young leaders at the Summit for Democracy is so important to us and to me.
One of President Biden’s top priorities is ensuring that the voices o
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Harry S Truman Building
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello, everyone. It’s a particular pleasure to have Foreign Minister Aurescu here. Bogdan, welcome to the State Department. The United States and Romania are very stalwart allies and partners in NATO. We have a strategic partnership. And in fact, we’ll be having our Strategic Dialogue tomorrow, and that’s evidence of the fact that across so many issues our countries
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Paris, France
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
MODERATOR: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen – those in the room, those watching online – to this final press conference for the OECD’s Ministerial Council Meeting. We’ll have a – we’ll hear a few remarks from the Secretary-General, followed by remarks from the Secretary of State, who chaired the meeting. And then we will take some questions and answers.
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Paris, France
OECD
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello, everyone, and a real pleasure to be here with the vice president and foreign minister of Colombia. Marta Lucia, wonderful to see you. We have been working very closely together for these past several months, including a very good visit to Washington a few months ago.
And that’s just evidence of the very strong and important partnership between the United States and Colombia,
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Paris, France
OECD
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hey, good morning. Good morning, everyone, (inaudible) great to see you. I’m really pleased to be with Jose Manuel. We’ve been doing a lot of work on the phone in recent months, but it’s good to be – actually to be able to get together in person. We are so grateful for the role that our close ally and partner has played in the evacuation from Afghanistan, including the use of the base i
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Paris, France
OECD
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. Just a special pleasure to be with my good friend and colleague, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. We have been working very, very closely together these past nine months, and in particular, besides our work here at the OECD, Luigi, very much looking forward to continuing to work on the Italian G20 presidency and the vital work that you and Italy are doing to le
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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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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
I am very pleased to welcome Costa Rica as the 38th member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD is a unique forum of like-minded democracies dedicated to promoting our shared values and addressing our shared challenges.
Costa Rica’s membership follows an extensive multiyear effort to align its economic policies with OECD recommendations and is a strong signal of confidence in the Costa Rican economy. I commend Co
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