{"id":41390,"date":"2021-10-22T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41390"},"modified":"2021-10-22T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:13:24","slug":"secretary-blinkens-call-with-un-secretary-general-guterres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41390","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Call with UN Secretary-General Guterres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>10\/22\/2021 06:33 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 spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today to discuss topics of global importance, including Afghanistan.\u00a0 They also discussed their shared concern over the worsening conflict in northern Ethiopia, including the escalating violence and its impact on humanitarian operations.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken expressed U.S. appreciation for the Secretary-General\u2019s efforts to address the humanitarian crisis and commended the efforts of the UN Country Team in Ethiopia, which continues to work under challenging conditions.\u00a0 The Secretary and Secretary-General Guterres discussed opportunities to strengthen international collaboration to stop the current hostilities, promote negotiations toward a sustainable ceasefire, and deliver life-saving assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/22\/2021 06:33 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-41390","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\/41390","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=41390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41391,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41390\/revisions\/41391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}