{"id":35667,"date":"2021-05-26T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35667"},"modified":"2021-05-26T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:43:10","slug":"secretary%e2%80%afblinkens%e2%80%afmeeting-with-egyptian%e2%80%afpresident-al-sisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35667","title":{"rendered":"Secretary\u202fBlinken\u2019s\u202fMeeting with Egyptian\u202fPresident Al Sisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>05\/26\/2021 06:11 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J.\u202fBlinken\u202fmet\u202ftoday\u202fin Cairo\u202fwith\u202fEgyptian\u202fPresident Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.\u202f\u202fThe Secretary\u202fconveyed President Biden\u2019s appreciation to President Sisi\u202ffor Egypt\u2019s critical mediation efforts in support of a ceasefire\u202fbetween Israel and Hamas and other groups in Gaza and for Egypt\u2019s help in evacuating American citizens to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary affirmed\u202fthe strong strategic partnership between the United States\u202fand Egypt, and President Biden\u2019s commitment to this relationship.\u202f He reiterated the United States\u2019 commitment to Egypt\u2019s water security and to\u00a0the\u00a0urgent resumption of substantive and results oriented negotiations under the leadership of the African\u00a0Union to resolve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary praised Egypt for its efforts on Libya and stressed the United States and noted our mutual support for the Government of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary stressed the importance of human rights, and the two leaders agreed to engage in a\u202fconstructive dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-4246208398266450205mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/26\/2021 06:11 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35668,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35667\/revisions\/35668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}