{"id":779997,"date":"2021-09-17T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=779997"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:44:32","slug":"secy-of-state-blinken-france-is-still-a-vital-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-of-state-blinken-france-is-still-a-vital-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Secy. of State Blinken: France is still a vital partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecy-of-state-blinken-france-is-still-a-vital-partner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=779997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2523196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2523196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, left, accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik, Pool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:24 AM PT \u2013 Friday, September 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Biden administration has attempted to mend their strained relation with France after announcing a new partnership with the U.S. and Australia. On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said despite France\u2019s exclusion from the strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/15\/joint-leaders-statement-on-aukus\/\">Aukus alliance<\/a>, the country remains an important ally to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The joint agreement will help Australia acquire submarines for its Navy. However, the country had a previous building agreement with France. The development of the recent trilateral partnership has French officials outraged. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, however, called it a stab in the back and said allies don\u2019t do this to each other<\/p>\n<p>Despite their concerns, Blinken claimed the relationship between the U.S. and France has been an important aspect to American national security for \u201ca long long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize again, we cooperate incredibly closely with France on many shared priorities in the Indo-Pacific, but also beyond around the world,\u201d he stated. \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to do so. We place fundamental value on that relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecDef<\/a> Austin and I are glad to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarisePayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarisePayne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterDutton_MP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeterDutton_MP<\/a> for the 2021 Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) today here in Washington, D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qs5SDjHQBH\">pic.twitter.com\/Qs5SDjHQBH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1438580045799374851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken added, the U.S. remains in close communication with France as the two work collaboratively for their mutual security. In the wake of the disapproval of French leaders, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Biden claimed the country was still a key partner in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/durham-probe-files-charges-against-dem-connected-lawyer\/\">Durham Probe Files Charges Against Dem-Connected Lawyer<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, left, accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, speaks at a news conference at the State &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}