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Antony Blinken: “But even if we were to conclude those agreements, and I believe we actually can conclude them relatively quickly given…”

On the recordMay 21, 2024
But even if we were to conclude those agreements, and I believe we actually can conclude them relatively quickly given all the work that has been done, they could not go forward, and the overall package could not go forward absent other things that have to happen for normalization to proceed.
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Antony Blinken
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Blinken discusses the conditions needed for U.S.-Saudi normalization agreements to proceed.

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