{"id":65892,"date":"2024-07-09T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65892"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:30:49","slug":"secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-ukrainian-foreign-minister-dmytro-kuleba-meet-ahead-of-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65892","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Meet Ahead of NATO Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary Blinken:<\/strong> Good afternoon, everyone. It is, as always, a great pleasure to have my colleague and friend, Dmytro Kuleba, here as we start the NATO summit. This summit will further strengthen Ukraine\u2019s ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its path to membership. We\u2019ve done a lot of work in recent weeks and months, and I think you\u2019ll see a very strong package emerge from the summit for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, we\u2019ve been working closely to ensure Ukraine has what it needs to stand strongly on its own militarily, economically, and democratically. Ukraine\u2019s success as a strong, independent country is the best possible rebuke to the aggression by Putin and Russia against Ukraine, including the recent attack on the largest children\u2019s hospital in Kyiv. I visited this remarkable facility a couple of years ago and met children who were victims of Russian aggression and others suffering from cancer and other illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>This despicable attack underscores the ongoing aggression. Our commitment \u2013 and the commitment of dozens of countries around the world \u2013 to Ukraine and its defense continues. This will be manifested in very concrete ways over the next few days at the NATO summit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foreign Minister Kuleba:<\/strong> Thank you, Antony. It\u2019s always good to see you. We are hours away from the beginning of the NATO summit and from the heinous missile attack by Russia on Ukraine, including the most important children\u2019s hospital in our country. This attack on Ukraine\u2019s future \u2013 because children are our future \u2013 shall not remain unresponded to. I look forward to our discussion on how we can further strengthen Ukraine\u2019s defense capabilities. Thank you for what has already been done and your personal role in rallying the world to ensure the delivery of necessary equipment to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>I will raise the point about possible U.S. assistance in rebuilding and re-equipping this hospital. We need to relaunch it as soon as possible. There are children who need daily support, surgeries, and other procedures. They have to continue.<\/p>\n<p>On NATO, we seem to be set before a very important gathering of leaders. Thank you for working diligently on air defense agreements and the assistance that NATO will be providing to Ukraine. This is all essential. I\u2019m looking forward to continuing our partnership and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary Blinken:<\/strong> Thank you, Dmytro. Thanks, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken: Good afternoon,&#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-65892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65892","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=65892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65893,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65892\/revisions\/65893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}