From USA Blinken to Sweden for Aussie Meet

Blinken – often described as a “diplomatic diplomat” – travels first to Latvia and then to Sweden, where Secretary of State Anne Linde(s) will host the OSCE Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on December 2-3. Linde is Osse’s Chair.

Among those invited to the meeting are the foreign ministers of North America, Europe and Central Asia, including Russia and the United States, the State Department wrote in a press release.

Ukraine and principles

Osse has 57 member states. The agenda of the organization is mainly crises and conflicts in the OSCE region in particular, including in and around Ukraine. The migrant crisis at the Belarusian border is also likely to be addressed at next week’s meeting.

In a statement, Linde said the “shared principles and commitments” found in the AUC are now more important than ever to deal with challenges and prevent new crises and conflicts.

During the Blue and Yellow Presidency, Lindy and her colleagues also lobbied to prioritize areas such as women’s economic empowerment, climate and security.

repair relationships

Lindh’s colleague, attorney Anthony Blinken, has a solid foreign policy resume within the West. Raised in New York and Paris, between 2015 and 2017 he was Deputy Secretary of State for John Kerry, under President Barack Obama. He was in the room when Obama followed up on the raids that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and played an important role in the United States’ handling of the Crimean crisis in 2014.

As President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State, Blinken primarily sought to mend diplomatic ties severed by former US President Donald Trump’s more confrontational doctrine. Among other things, he played a significant role in the re-admission of the United States to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.