The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken comes out of quarantine on Thursday, May 12, a week after having tested positive for Covid-19, and will be able to travel to Europe this weekend for meetings with NATO and the European Union. .
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The Secretary of State, confined to his home since May 4, receives his Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai in person on Thursday, just before the opening in Washington of a summit of American President Joe Biden with the leaders of the Association of Nations of Southeast Asia (ASEAN).
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On Saturday, he will fly to Germany, where he will take part in an informal meeting of Atlantic Alliance foreign ministers in Berlin on Sunday to continue coordinating their response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the report said. State Department in a statement.
This meeting comes at a crucial moment: Finland on Thursday openly expressed its desire to enter NATO "
without delay
", which raises the question of the security guarantees that the other member countries, and above all the United States , will be able to bring to him during the process of adhesion vis-a-vis Russia which already denounced a threat against him.
Sunday, Antony Blinken will go to France until Monday to participate in Saclay, a suburb of Paris, in a new council between the United States and the EU on trade and technologies.
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Due to the Covid-19 which nailed him to Washington, the Secretary of State on the other hand had to give up going to Morocco to chair a meeting of the international anti-jihadist coalition which was held on Wednesday, and a meeting with its counterparts from the great powers of the G7 which opens on Thursday in Germany.
