{"id":45539,"date":"2022-03-02T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45539"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:03:55","slug":"secretary-blinkens-travel-to-belgium-poland-moldova-latvia-lithuania-and-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45539","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Travel to Belgium, Poland, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/02\/2022 02:35 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Belgium, Poland, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from March 3 to 8, 2022.\u00a0 The trip continues extensive consultations and coordination with our NATO Allies and European partners about the Russian Federation\u2019s continued premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken will begin his trip in Brussels, Belgium where he will participate in a NATO Foreign Ministerial, meet with EU counterparts, participate in a G7 Ministerial Meeting, and hold additional meetings with partners to discuss the global response to Russia\u2019s invasion, including Allies\u2019 and partners\u2019 continued coordination on imposing massive consequences and severe economic costs on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary will then travel to Poland on March 5, where he will meet with Polish leaders, including Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, to discuss further security assistance in the face of Russia\u2019s continued aggression and unprovoked attack on Ukraine.\u00a0 He will also thank Poland for generously welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced persons from Ukraine and discuss how the United States can augment humanitarian assistance efforts for those fleeing Putin\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary will then travel to Chisinau, Moldova to meet with President Maia Sandu, Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, and Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu.\u00a0 During his stop, the Secretary will discuss support for Moldova\u2019s efforts to receive and assist refugees fleeing Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, as well as U.S. support for Moldova\u2019s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary will then travel to Vilnius, Lithuania on March 6 to meet with President Gitanas Nauseda, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, and Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. On March 7, the Secretary will travel to Riga, Latvia, to meet with President Egils Levits, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, and Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics.\u00a0He will travel to Tallinn, Estonia, on March 8 to meet with President Alar Karis, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets.\u00a0During all three stops, he will discuss joint efforts to support Ukraine, strengthen NATO\u2019s deterrence and defense, promote democracy and human rights, and pursue deeper economic and energy cooperation with our Baltic Allies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/02\/2022 02:35 PM EST &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-45539","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\/45539","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=45539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45540,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45539\/revisions\/45540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}