Antony Blinken

I am deeply sensitive to the way this was perceived by our friends.

A reformed UN Security Council, as President Biden has said, is in the best interests of the United States.

If we see steps inconsistent with that, I think it does contradict what we believe both Israelis and the Palestinian Authority are seeking to do.

I am certainly determined to do that.

We may not be able to match China person for person, but we are going to be engaged in ways that we have not been.

We need to see that, but we also want to see steps taken to put Tunisia fully back on the democratic path it was on.

However, we do not support the expansion or the alteration of the veto.

We welcome Ukraine's EU candidacy and support the Ukrainian government's efforts to advance necessary institution-building in line with Ukraine's European path.

We support the expansion of the permanent and non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council, including permanent seats for countries from Africa as well as Latin America and the Caribbean.

We have made clear that in terms of some of the weapons systems that they seek for their security, we are fully prepared to move forward.

Countries make their own sovereign decisions in their international relationships.

We have a proposal for $400 million to counter specific actions by China that counter our interests in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

The problem that we face now is exactly what you pointed to, the edicts promulgated by the Taliban, preventing women from participating in the delivery of assistance.

What they really want, is investment in their productive capacity, and this is absolutely critical to making sure that they have sustainable agricultural production.

Be happy to do that.

I want to see us be able to reestablish an ongoing presence in Libya.

This Administration will not support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar al-Assad.

We are focused on Ukraine, of course, as Russia continues its illegal assault upon the Ukrainian people, and its war crimes.

press them to use the influence that they have to make sure that that space remains open and does not get shut down.

We have to be there, first and foremost, and that goes to the efforts that we are doing.

President Biden is firmly committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific.

We are seeing that play out in Europe, we have seen that play out in Asia, in terms of having a more common approach to the challenges posed by China.

We continue to see democratic backsliding, and backsliding on human rights in a number of countries.

There should not be any gap between the potential repeal of the 2001 authorization and a replacement.

Ninety-six percent of it is coming through ports of entry.