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12/09/2022 01:58 PM EST
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Treaty Room
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. It’s a great pleasure once again to have my friend Zbigniew Rau, the foreign minister of Poland, here at the State Department in Washington. We were just together in Bucharest for a very important meeting of the NATO foreign ministers. But I can’t think of a time when the United States and Poland and our partnership has been more important and more effective. Thanks to Poland’s leadership, we are standing strong in support of Ukraine faced with the Russian aggression – supporting it in terms of security assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance.
Poland has done, the Polish people have done extraordinary things in their generosity towards so many refugees from Ukraine. And Poland has been instrumental in the work that everyone has done to help Ukraine deal with the Russian aggression. Our Alliance in NATO could not be stronger, and we are working together to strengthen NATO going forward, to strengthen its defensive capacity, to implement the Strategic Concept that we’ve all agreed on. And of course, Poland’s in the leadership of the OSCE at a critical time, and that too we very much applaud.
So on these critical security issues but also our own bilateral relationship, these could not be stronger, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue the conversation, the dialogue on these and many other issues. So welcome, Zbigniew.
FOREIGN MINISTER RAU: Thank you. Thank you, Tony. It’s my honor and my pleasure to be back in Washington, D.C. Last time when I was visiting you, it was almost on the eve of Russian —
SECRETARY BLINKEN: That’s right.