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.

I am certainly determined to do that.

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

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 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.

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.

Be happy to do that.

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.

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.

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.

putting them out of business entirely.

I think not only is it advancing, I believe that we have asked actually your respective teams for recommendations.

It is imperative that it be sustained.

We are facing a generational challenge and we think that the discretionary alone is not enough to help us out compete China.

We are working to engage these governments, whether it is Honduras, whether it is Guatemala, whether it is El Salvador.

I do and we have. Our exports to Europe of liquefied natural gas over the last few years went up 140 percent.

I do think that there is without exaggerating it a moment of opportunity here that would profoundly be in the interests of the people of Armenia as well as Azerbaijan.

some of these laws are ripped from the playbooks from Russia, China, and other places.

The Black Sea grain corridor has been a significant success, getting out about 24 million metric tons of grain from Ukraine.

Yes, we got about a billion dollars requested in aid for Central America. We have, of course, laws and regulations to ensure that the money is not diverted, for example, to corrupt actors.