"Today, pursuant to a delegation of authority from President Biden, I am authorizing our 34th drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine valued at USD 350 million," said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement issued by the US State Department on Monday.
With this new funding, the US' total assistance for those affected by the Rakhine State and Rohingya crisis has reached nearly USD 2.1 billion since August 2017, when over 7,40,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to safety in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, according to a press statement issued by the
"Spoke with @DmytroKuleba today as we enter the second year since Russia's full-scale invasion. I reiterated the commitment @POTUS made that U.S. support for Ukraine is enduring and will last as long as it takes," Blinken tweeted on Friday.
"A pleasure to meet with our staff from @USAndIndia, @USAndHyderabad, @USAndKolkata, @USAndChennai, @USAndMumbai, and their families. I'm deeply grateful for their hard work and commitment to strengthen our people-to-people ties and advance the #USIndia strategic partnership," Blinken tweete
Quad is not a military grouping, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, adding it is now engaged in working together to help countries to deal with humanitarian situations in natural disasters.
The meeting will be chaired by External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, and will see the participation of Foreign Ministers of Australia, Penny Wong and Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked for 'contact' with Foreign Minister Lavrov, during the second session of the G20 meeting they had 'contact', but there were no talks or full-fledged meetings, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines of G20 meeting in New Delhi.
According to The Hong Kong Post, if China does not work toward repairing the relations, the episode may even endanger the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping that is being planned in Indonesia this November.
Several Republican lawmakers, on Wednesday, urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses and to tell Beijing that their provocative aggression against Taiwan and India is "unacceptable."