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US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived in Istanbul this Friday is the first stop of a tour of nine countries in the region, dedicated to the situation
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived in Istanbul this Friday is the first stop of a tour of nine countries in the region, dedicated to the situation in the Gaza Stripand it will last until next Thursday.
Blinken’s plane landed at Istanbul airport at 7:10 pm (1610 GMT) and was received by a senior Turkish Foreign Ministry official with the rank of ambassador and American consular authorities, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported.
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Blinken meets with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidanwill take place this Saturday, and the American diplomat is also expected to be received by the president. Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The main topic of Blinken’s agenda tomorrow He will continue his trip to Greece and then to Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Egypt.is the situation A loopthe need to deliver humanitarian aid to the sector and the release of hostages held by the Islamist group Hamas.
However, he will also talk with his interlocutors about “Turkey’s final steps to ratify Sweden’s entry into NATO,” as the secretary of state’s spokesman said yesterday. Matthew Millerin Washington.
Erdogan has insisted that the ratification, which will be voted on in parliament in mid-January, be linked to the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, which has been blocked by the US Congress.
The Turkish President has already warned that the parliament’s positionwhere his party (the Islamist AKP) and its coalition partner (the ultranationalist MHP) have a majority, will be “more positive”if an agreement is reached on fighters.
From Istanbul, Biden will fly to Crete, where he will also meet tomorrow with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with whom he will discuss, first of all, the war in Ukraine.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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