Blinken

On February 28, the head of the U.S. Department of State paid an official visit to Kazakhstan and simultaneously held a meeting in the “C5+1” format. — In other words, the Secretary of State spoke with colleagues from five countries of the former Soviet Union — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. On the one hand, this visit follows the old (and even outdated) strategy of isolating Russia around the world, in which Blinken rushes around the…

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the war in Ukraine with regional leaders, the State Department said. The top US diplomat’s visit was announced just hours…

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, saying that the U.S. regrets Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative agreement, calls on Moscow to continue the deal. Here is the full statement from State Department: “The United States regrets Russia’s suspension of its participation in the operations of the U.N.-brokered Black…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel, West Bank, Morocco and Algeria in the coming days, the US Department of State has announced, to discuss regional issues as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The department said on Thursday that Blinken’s tour, set to take place from March 26 to 30, would begin in Israel and the West Bank, and end in Algeria. The visit comes as the administration of US President Joe Biden pushes to get its Middle East allies to join in the Western-led pressure campaign against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Iran has publicly stated it wants to wipe Israel and Israel will not allow that to happen. At the event held to mark the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between several Arab states and Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was much more circumspect, saying merely that Iran wasn’t negotiating, and that Washington is “prepared to turn to other options.”

By: Lubna Hassan Heikal, MPAC Policy Intern Two decades after the tragic events of 9/11, the Biden Administration made good on its promise to withdraw all U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, ending the longest war in American history. Before the withdrawal was complete, the Taliban began taking control of city…

While in New Delhi, Blinken should press Modi to repeal and amend laws that jeopardize human rights and to reform the overbroad legal frameworks that authorities have used to target activists, opposition leaders, and human rights defenders. Blinken must underscore to Modi that the Indian government’s use of purportedly “anti-terrorist” laws to crush opposition and target activists undermines the strategic partnership with the United States. There is a political cost to the Modi government’s continued efforts to erode and abuse India’s political and legal institutions to violate human rights.