{"id":47924,"date":"2022-05-04T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47924"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:54:00","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-civil-society-leaders-from-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47924","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Civil Society Leaders from Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>05\/04\/2022 12:49 PM EDT<\/div>\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 met virtually today with a diverse group of civil society leaders from Southeast Asia to hear about their courageous work advocating for human rights, justice, democracy, and unhindered humanitarian access for assistance to vulnerable groups.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken reaffirmed the United States\u2019 commitment to putting human rights, justice, and democracy at the center of our foreign policy, including as we seek to strengthen our relationship with ASEAN.\u00a0 The Secretary noted that the concerns and personal stories he heard will help inform our engagement on democracy and human rights at the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit on May 12-13.\u00a0 He also noted diplomatic and economic actions the U.S. government is taking to support civil society and strengthen democracy across the region and the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2734104326616948045mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/04\/2022 12:49 PM EDT Office of&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47924","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=47924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47925,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47924\/revisions\/47925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}