Antony Blinken

we want to make sure that the Arctic remains a cool spot, not a hot spot

Any entity involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks U.S. sanctions and should immediately abandon work on the pipeline.

I can give you my assurance as you’ve been asked by Senator Leahy and others that this will be a high priority to protect those men and women and their families, whose lives are at risk because they were willing to stand up on our side.

I could not agree more.

What they most fear about us is our network of allies, because they do not really have them.

We view the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a Russian geopolitical project that is a bad deal for Germany, Ukraine, and European energy security.

If that does not work, I think finding ways to make Ukraine whole for the lost transit fees is something that the Europeans would need to step up to.

In short, we will. This is front and center as a priority for us.

We need to get all of these disparate forces out of Tigray starting with the Eritreans and the Asmarans.

This is a critical moment for the United States and for our global leadership.

I think it's very significant as legislation. It's going to give us new tools, new resources to deal more effectively with the competition.

I think it would be useful to the United States to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty.

the government in Beijing did not, to say the least, meet its basic responsibilities in transparency.

The budget will double down on the fight for democracy, which, as we all know, is under threat in many places around the world.

I think they were an important achievement, one that not only do we support, but we'd like to build on.

Can I give assurances that this will not happen again in the future? No, I cannot.

I share your strong commitment to doing right by the people who did right by us.

the president has been determined and committed to put human rights at the center of our foreign policy.

the United States government demands his release.

We are developing opportunities for enhanced cooperation with regional partners who share our concern and are open to cooperation.

Our troops are coming home, and Afghanistan deserves a chance to find its own way forward with help and encouragement from its friends, especially the United States.

I have demanded his release.

So what we`ve seen Andrea is that there was a massive buildup of forces on the Ukrainian border.

Corruption is a tool that Russia uses to try to erode Ukrainian sovereignty from the inside.

The U.S. European Command... went to their highest alert level after what appears to be a Russian attack killed Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine this week.