{"id":48578,"date":"2022-05-21T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48578"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T19:55:53","slug":"meeting-with-saudi-deputy-minister-of-defense-prince-khalid-bin-salman-al-saud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48578","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/21\/2022 07:54 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman\u2019s meeting today with His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, D.C. The Secretary and Deputy expressed strong support for the UN-negotiated truce and reviewed other recent progress in Yemen, including the resumption of commercial flights from Sana\u2019a and regular fuel imports through Hudaydah, while stressing the need to urgently improve access to Taiz and other cities on the front lines of the conflict. They discussed with the Deputy Minister the enduring U.S. commitment to strengthen Saudi Arabia\u2019s defenses, efforts to counter Iranian threats, and the importance of maintaining strong international support for Ukraine. They also discussed managing pressures in global energy markets stemming from Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and reviewed human rights issues as well as Saudi Arabia\u2019s progress on its Vision 2030 program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/21\/2022 07:54 AM 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578","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=48578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48579,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578\/revisions\/48579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}