{"id":50329,"date":"2024-04-02T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50329"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:49:02","slug":"blinken-in-paris-for-talks-on-ukraine-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50329","title":{"rendered":"Blinken in Paris for talks on Ukraine, Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday on supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia and the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France is among major military suppliers to Ukraine, which has faced critical shortages of arms and troops as it holds off an onslaught of Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been the key military backer for Ukraine but a $60 billion aid package has been held up in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Paris has also advocated for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The United States, Israel&#8217;s main ally, recently let pass a UN Security<br \/>\nCouncil resolution that calls for a ceasefire during the month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken will meet with Macron to discuss the mounting international crises, the French presidency told AFP. He will also have talks with Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne.<\/p>\n<p>France held an international conference in February in a bid to rally financial and military support for Ukraine. The results will be reviewed by<br \/>\nBlinken and French leaders, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides want an &#8220;intensification&#8221; of support for Ukraine, a member of Sejourne&#8217;s entourage said.<\/p>\n<p>The French minister was in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the Gaza war and in China on Monday to urge Beijing to press Russia over the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday on supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia and the Israel-Hamas conflict. France is among major military suppliers to Ukraine, which has faced critical shortages of arms and troops as it holds off an onslaught of Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1013],"class_list":["post-50329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-blinken-in-paris-for-talks-on-ukraine-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}