{"id":48041,"date":"2022-05-08T20:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48041"},"modified":"2022-05-09T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:33:36","slug":"secretary-blinkens-call-with-ukrainian-foreign-minister-kuleba-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48041","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/08\/2022 12:04 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke by phone today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to commemorate Ukraine\u2019s Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation to recognize the sacrifices of those lost in World War II.\u00a0 The Secretary informed Foreign Minister Kuleba that our Charge d\u2019Affaires Kristina Kvien and a small group of diplomats, accompanied by State Department security, traveled to Kyiv to conduct diplomatic engagement in advance of the planned resumption of Embassy Kyiv operations, as the Secretary pledged to President Zelenskyy they would during his most recent visit to Kyiv.\u00a0 The Secretary also shared additional detail of new security assistance packages to support Ukraine\u2019s gains on the battlefield, including the ninth drawdown from U.S. stocks authorized by President Biden and the expanded authorities that will be offered under the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.\u00a0 The Secretary emphasized the United States\u2019 enduring commitment to Ukraine and its ultimate victory against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/08\/2022 12:04 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":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48041","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\/48041","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=48041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48042,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48041\/revisions\/48042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}