SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  Let me first say what an absolute pleasure it is to have my friend and colleague Annalena Baerbock here in Washington for what have proven to be, as always, very, very good consultations and conversations on an incredibly wide array of issues.  And I think that’s evidence of the fact […]

The United States welcomes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosting discussions with the Houthi-led delegation in Riyadh.  This important step towards peace expands on a series of engagements between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis (Ansar Allah). The United States supports reinvigorating the Yemeni-Yemeni political process under United Nations auspices to bring an end to the […]

The U.S. Department of State hosted the inaugural plenary meeting of Subscribing States to the voluntary Code of Conduct of the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative (ECHRI) in Washington, D.C. on September 14-15. ECHRI was launched at the first Summit for Democracy in 2021 as part of the Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal.  ECHRI is […]