{"id":48580,"date":"2022-05-22T19:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T02:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48580"},"modified":"2022-05-22T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T02:05:45","slug":"secretary-blinkens-call-with-french-minister-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs-colonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48580","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Call with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Colonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/22\/2022 12:38 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 spoke today with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs\u00a0Catherine Colonna to congratulate her on her appointment and discuss some of the pressing global issues the United States and France are confronting together.\u00a0 The Secretary and Foreign Minister Colonna agreed\u00a0on the importance of continuing steadfast support to Ukraine and maintaining significant costs to President Putin for his war of choice.\u00a0 They discussed steps the United States and France could take together to support EU accession paths for countries that qualify for membership.\u00a0 They touched upon the NATO Alliance, including how best to support Finland and Sweden\u2019s bids to join NATO and key issues ahead of the Madrid summit.\u00a0 Both agreed on the need to respond to the urgent food security and nutrition needs of millions of people in vulnerable situations around the world, which have been exacerbated by Russia\u2019s continued brutal war in Ukraine.\u00a0 They also discussed the importance of moving forward on the global minimum tax to end the\u00a0race to the bottom on corporate taxes and lay the groundwork for increased investment and growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/22\/2022 12:38 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48580","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\/48580","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=48580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48581,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48580\/revisions\/48581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}