{"id":8570,"date":"2024-09-08T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2024-09-08T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:54:10","slug":"blinken-to-head-to-uk-for-talks-on-ukraine-mideast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/blinken-to-head-to-uk-for-talks-on-ukraine-mideast\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken to head to UK for talks on Ukraine, Mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the State Department announced Saturday, ahead of a US visit by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s visit to London on Monday and Tuesday will be the senior-most by a US official since Starmer&#8217;s Labour Party won July elections, ending 14 years of Conservative rule.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken will take part in a strategic dialogue &#8220;reaffirming our special relationship,&#8221; State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>He will discuss Asia as well as the Middle East and &#8220;our collective efforts to support Ukraine,&#8221; Miller said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The White House earlier announced that Starmer will visit next Friday, his second trip to Washington since his election.<\/p>\n<p>He met President Joe Biden at the White House on July 10, days after taking office, as Starmer attended a NATO summit in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and the United States have cooperated in lockstep on most global issues, and Biden&#8217;s Democrats historically have been seen as closer to the Labour Party than the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer, however, has taken a harder line on Israel since taking office, with his government announcing a suspension of some arms shipments, citing the risk that they could be used to violate humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour government has also dropped its Conservative predecessor&#8217;s plans to challenge the right of the International Criminal Court to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court and has opposed the bid to target Netanyahu, arguing that Israel has its own systems for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>But the United States, Israel&#8217;s primary weapons supplier, did not criticize the arms decision, saying that Britain had its own process to make assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the State Department announced Saturday, ahead of a US visit by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Blinken&#8217;s visit to London on Monday and Tuesday will be the senior-most by a US official since Starmer&#8217;s Labour Party won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8572,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions\/8572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}