Washington:
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Wednesday spoke with Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to assessment regional priorities, worsening humanitarian scenario in Ukraine and to advertise free and open Indo-Pacific, his spokesperson mentioned.
The 2 leaders spoke “to assessment regional priorities, together with the worsening humanitarian scenario in Ukraine and our shared efforts to advertise a free, open, safe, and affluent Indo-Pacific, during which the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states is revered,” State Division Spokesperson Ned Value mentioned.
Blinken has wrapped up a three-nation tour of the Center East and North Africa on Wednesday, making an impassioned attraction to Algeria to restrict ties with Russia.
“The international locations of North Africa and the Center East have skilled themselves the results of Russia’s navy campaigns earlier than,” Blinken mentioned.
Final month, Blinken held a telephonic dialog with Mr Jaishankar and harassed the significance of a powerful collective response to sentence Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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