SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  Thank you so much for being here this afternoon.  And in particular, I have to say it’s great to be joined by colleagues from dozens of national governments, civil society groups, and the private sector.  This group, in all its diversity, demonstrates a fundamental truth about the synthetic drug crisis:  […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  All right, good evening, everyone.  Thank you so much for being here.  I know we have a number of colleagues who are still on their way.  There are certain challenges when it comes to High-Level Week in New York and getting around.  I have a one-word solution: subway.  (Laughter.)  But, and that’s as […]

There is a lot of pro-Putin bias in the Western world. We aim to dispel this “macho” propaganda and reveal true colors of his regime: murder, intimidation, industrialized kleptocracy and well-funded russian fascism propaganda machines. We were born in Russia, we have lost friends to this murderer… we see how he “zombifies” most and intimidates […]

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SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good morning, everyone.  I can think of no better way, at least for me, to kick off this High-level Week than with all of you, so welcome.  Some of you have already been doing things, but for me, this is the first meeting of this High-level Week, and I couldn’t be more […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good morning, colleagues, and thank you all for joining us this morning.  And thank you, even more important than that, for your shared commitment to advancing peace.  Under your leadership in Yemen, 18 months of calm have now improved lives for millions of Yemenis – and more important, not just improved lives but […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.  Thank you, Julieta, and thanks to everyone for coming together.  This is an incredibly busy week, to understate.  We’re all torn and pulled in different directions.  The fact that this group is around this table today I think speaks to a profound shared commitment to the plight of the refugees and […]

The U.S. Departments of State and Justice led the Law Enforcement Coordination Group (LECG), which convened in Europe on September 12-13 for a regional meeting focused on Hizballah’s destabilizing activities in the Western Hemisphere. Governments from across North, South, and Central America participated in this session, along with Israel and Europol. The LECG was established […]

On September 18, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken convened the first ministerial meeting of the Resettlement Diplomacy Network (RDN) on the margins of the 78th UN General Assembly.  The RDN is a new multilateral initiative launched by the government of the United States. Its goal is to drive high-level strategic and diplomatic engagement among resettlement […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.  Thank you very much.  It is wonderful to be back here at the New York Public Library.  And I have to say at the outset that I very much share my good friend and colleague James Cleverly’s sense of optimism.  It is an occupational hazard.  In fact, I think we’re both […]

We welcome today’s simultaneous shipment of humanitarian goods along the Lachin corridor and the Aghdam roadway into Nagorno-Karabakh, an approach President Aliyev and I recently discussed. These deliveries of critically needed supplies are an important step forward, and we encourage the sides to engage in direct talks and focus on ways to increase the flow […]