{"id":38211,"date":"2021-07-28T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38211"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T22:14:59","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-the-world-health-organization-director-general-tedros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38211","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>07\/28\/2021 04:02 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to\u00a0Spokesperson\u00a0Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0today\u00a0in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Secretary Blinken and Director-General Tedros discussed opportunities for collaboration to continue reforming and strengthening the WHO, while also building greater global pandemic preparedness and response capacity across the board. \u00a0Secretary Blinken affirmed U.S. support for the WHO\u2019s plans to conduct additional studies into the COVID-19 origins, including in the People\u2019s Republic of China, to better understand the current pandemic and prevent future ones. He stressed the need for the next phase to be timely, evidence-based, transparent, expert-led, and free from interference.\u00a0Secretary\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>Blinken\u00a0emphasized the importance of the international community coming together on this matter of critical concern and reiterated our support for a multilateral approach to global health security more broadly.\u00a0Secretary Blinken and Director-General Tedros committed to work together and with all Member States to make meaningful, concrete progress in strengthening global health security to prevent, detect, and respond to future pandemics and health threats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/28\/2021 04:02 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#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-38211","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\/38211","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=38211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38212,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211\/revisions\/38212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}