{"id":38424,"date":"2021-08-04T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38424"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T01:05:47","slug":"secretary-blinkens-participation-in-the-east-asia-summit-foreign-ministers-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38424","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Participation in the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>08\/04\/2021 12:11 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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. Blinken spoke today with foreign ministers of the East Asia Summit (EAS) nations\u00a0and the ASEAN Secretary General during the EAS Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting.\u00a0\u00a0The Secretary reaffirmed the United States\u2019 commitment to ASEAN and the EAS, underscoring the essential role of ASEAN-centered fora in the U.S. vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific.\u00a0 The Secretary and EAS foreign ministers\u00a0discussed supporting implementation of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific and addressing pressing regional and international challenges, including combatting the COVID-19 pandemic and upholding the rules-based international order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/04\/2021 12:11 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-38424","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\/38424","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=38424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38425,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38424\/revisions\/38425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}