{"id":36908,"date":"2021-06-25T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36908"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:16:11","slug":"secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-french-foreign-minister-jean-yves-le-drian-before-their-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36908","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Antony J. Blinken and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Before Their Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/25\/2021 08:54 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian<\/p>\n<p>Paris, France<\/p>\n<p>Quai d\u2019Orsay<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOREIGN MINISTER LE DRIAN:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(In French.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>SECRETARY BLINKEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 (In French.)\u00a0 It\u2019s been a while since my January (inaudible).\u00a0 So I\u2019m especially pleased to be back.\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s an important opportunity for us to pursue the very good work that France and the United States are doing together during these weeks and these months.\u00a0 We were together at the G7, NATO, indirectly at the U.S.-EU summit.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been working very closely together these few months, and of course we had a very productive meeting between President Biden and President Macron on the margins of the meeting of the G7.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a very long and strong agenda, and I think we bring exactly the same perspective to bear, which is that there is a very imperative message in working together to meet the challenges of this moment that are really having an impact on the lives of our citizens.\u00a0 Neither of us can do this alone.\u00a0 We are so much stronger and more effective when we\u2019re working together.\u00a0 And President Biden is extremely grateful for and (inaudible) partnership that we have with France.\u00a0 Working together we have an opportunity to demonstrate that our democracies can deliver real results for our people and the people of the world, and I\u2019m grateful to be able to work with you in that context.\u00a0 So thank you for hosting us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/25\/2021 08:54 AM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#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-36908","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\/36908","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=36908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36909,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions\/36909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}