Secretary Antony J. Blinken Press Availability at the Summit of Americas & More News Here

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon, everybody.  It has been practically three a long time since the United States hosted the first Summit of Americas.  As it occurs, I really labored on that inaugural summit, in a barely totally different position – I used to be a speechwriter for President Clinton at the time.

Needless to say, the hemisphere seems to be slightly bit totally different than it did again in 1994.  But the elementary premise of that first summit nonetheless holds:  No area extra immediately impacts the lives of American residents, their safety, their prosperity, than the Americas.  And at the identical time, the focus of democracies in our hemisphere offers us a singular benefit as we attempt to meet the elementary wants of individuals throughout the area.

This summit comes at a difficult time.  We heard that from many this week.  COVID-19 has taken the lives of 2.7 million individuals throughout the Americas.  If you add all of it up, we’re about 12 % of the world’s inhabitants.  We suffered 40 % of world reported deaths.  No area has felt extra acutely the pandemic’s financial and social penalties – from rising poverty to extra younger individuals out of work.

Just as we started to construct again from the pandemic, the Russian Government’s brutal warfare of aggression in Ukraine worsened many issues throughout the hemisphere – elevating the value of gas, fertilizer, and meals; making it more durable for producers to export their items.

These headwinds come atop longstanding challenges in the area, together with a scarcity of alternative, an accelerating local weather disaster, violence and insecurity, endemic corruption – all of that are driving individuals to go away their residence international locations in file numbers in search of locations the place they’ve a greater shot at offering for themselves and their family members.

The extra individuals throughout the area really feel these challenges of their on a regular basis lives, the extra they’re on the lookout for efficient governance to assist handle them.  And that’s been the guideline behind the Biden administration’s engagement in our area.

It’s why we donated greater than 70 million doses and counting of protected, efficient COVID-19 vaccines to international locations throughout the hemisphere – free of cost, with no strings connected. 

It’s why the American private and non-private sectors proceed to take a position greater than every other nation in increasing financial alternative throughout the hemisphere – from the $10 billion that the U.S.  Development Finance Corporation has distributed to tasks like – which can be offering low-interest loans to ladies entrepreneurs, for instance, to the $1.3 trillion that the United States gives in annual international direct funding to the Americas. 

It’s additionally why I convened my companions from throughout the hemisphere – first in Colombia, then in Panama – to concentrate on what we are able to do collectively to deal with the root causes of the area’s migration disaster; enhance financial assist for the international locations which can be internet hosting the largest numbers of refugees and migrants, together with the greater than 6 million displaced Venezuelans; broaden protections for migrants who’re at danger.

These efforts have been essential to shaping what’s now the first actually regional strategy to migration in the Los Angeles Declaration.  Thanks to President Biden’s management, it was adopted by leaders of 20 international locations in the hemisphere – together with our personal – just some hours in the past.  We anticipate extra to signal on, too, to this quickly.  What the declaration displays is one thing new, and that could be a dedication to shared duty in relation to coping with the migration problem, shared duty and shared motion.

We’re additionally marshaling actual sources behind this effort.  The Vice President has led the approach in producing $3.2 billion in new non-public sector funding by way of her Call to Action in the international locations of northern Central America. 

This summit isn’t the starting or the finish of our efforts to make democracy ship in the hemisphere.  Rather, it’s an opportunity to interact with companions from round the area – in authorities, worldwide organizations, civil society, the non-public sector, younger individuals – about the place we are able to do extra, and the place we are able to do higher.

That included participating with individuals from the international locations that aren’t democracies – the place voicing criticism of the authorities, standing up for human rights, or doing impartial journalism is met with systemic, systematic, and swift repression. 

I met with activists and human rights leaders, together with from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.  I used to be struck by their dedication, regardless of severe harassment, assaults, violence, the dedication to maintain combating for human rights and democracy of their international locations.  As for the governments of these international locations, this summit targeted on collaborating with companions to reply to the sensible wants of individuals throughout the hemisphere.  It’s laborious to do this with governments that reject the fundamental precept that they’re accountable to their individuals and repress their residents’ rights to talk up about the challenges that they face.

As a consequence of President Biden’s management in bringing this summit collectively and driving broad assist for its deliverables, we have now loads to point out for this week’s work. 

Together, our international locations agreed to formidable commitments in public well being and pandemic preparedness, clear vitality, local weather change adaptation, digital transformation, democratic governance.  These commitments give us benchmarks to carry us accountable by our fellow democracies and by the people who we serve. 

The United States introduced new commitments to maneuver these efforts ahead, and let me simply rapidly spotlight a couple of.

Together with companions, we’ll practice and equip 500,000 – 500,000 – native healthcare employees throughout the hemisphere over the subsequent 5 years in order that extra individuals can get high quality care of their communities.

We introduced a brand new financial agenda – the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity – that’s targeted on constructing extra equitable progress from the backside up and from the center out.  We’ll deliver extra international locations into the partnership over the coming months.  A key half of the agenda will likely be working with multilateral establishments to extend financing for the area’s middle-income economies, which aren’t developed sufficient to qualify for membership in teams like the G20 or the OECD, and but are too developed to qualify for help from worldwide monetary establishments like the World Bank.  This is one thing that we heard loud and clear from our companions in CARICOM in addition to others. 

So to that finish, President Biden is proposing elementary reforms to the Inter-American Development Bank in order that it may possibly spend money on middle-income international locations.  As the financial institution’s largest donor, the United States will put extra sources into the financial institution’s non-public sector lending arm to assist these sorts of investments.

We’re additionally turbocharging our efforts to assist the area’s transition to scrub vitality.  Here at the summit, 5 new international locations introduced that they plan to hitch the Renewable Energy for Latin America and Caribbean initiative.  That brings us to twenty international locations teaming as much as hit an unprecedented goal: producing 70 % of the hemisphere’s electrical energy by way of renewable vitality by the 12 months 2030.

We introduced a brand new partnership to spend money on clear vitality packages and local weather adaptation and resilience throughout the Caribbean, and expanded regional efforts to guard and preserve our oceans.

In no small half due to the extraordinary work of our Climate Envoy John Kerry, regional improvement banks dedicated $50 billion over 5 years to assist international locations scale back emissions, broaden renewable vitality, handle the rising local weather disaster.  We’ll work with the banks going ahead to make sure that the funding helps decrease the boundaries and dangers to investing in a sustainable future – making it not solely economically viable, however fascinating for the non-public sector.

As half of our dedication to strengthen democracy, the United States dedicated $75 million in new assist for over 300 community-led organizations throughout the Americas which can be on the entrance traces of advancing human rights, lifting extra individuals out of poverty, combating corruption. 

USAID will commit an extra $42 million to aiding civil society in Central America – half of what can be a whole-of-government dedication to selling freedom of expression, countering digital repression, defending different areas the place residents have interaction of their democracies.

Finally, we plan to host the first-ever Cities Summit of the Americas in Denver, Colorado, subsequent April, 2023.  This will foster larger cooperation amongst metropolis, state, regional leaders, along with enterprise, with youth, with NGOs.  What we’re already seeing is that cities are the main innovators in bringing residents and governments collectively to really clear up concrete, real-world issues – and we’ve bought loads to be taught from them.  We have additionally, as half of this, the Cities Forward initiative which is able to draw on the information and experience from throughout our personal authorities to assist cities meet their targets for turning into extra equitable, extra environmentally sustainable.

So in sum, I believe it’s truthful to say that we’ve emerged from this summit clear­‑eyed about the challenges that we face and extra aligned on the approach ahead: collectively, constructing on our power as democracies, and realizing, as President Biden mentioned, that at coronary heart we have now all the pieces that we’d like – proper right here in our personal hemisphere, in the Americas – all the pieces we have to ship for our individuals.

So with that, thanks.  Happy to take some questions.

MR PRICE:  We will now flip to questions.  We’ll begin with Humeyra Pamuk of Reuters.

QUESTION:  Hello, Secretary Blinken.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Humeyra.

QUESTION:  I’ve a pair of questions, so please bear with me.  Some international locations who have been current right here right now at the summit selected not to enroll in the migration declaration.  What have been their reservations and the way is the United States going to deal with these going ahead?  How many do you suppose might be on board by the finish of the 12 months?  And with this declaration, do you anticipate the file quantity of migrant arrivals at the border to fall?  That was my first query. 

My second one is:  Many leaders expressed their discontent to U.S. excluding Cuba and Venezuela, and so they raised considerations about the unity in the area.  What will the administration do to ease these considerations, and will that set off a rethink of U.S. coverage in the direction of the area?  Thanks.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thanks, Humeyra.  So first, on the L.A. Declaration on Migration, I’m undecided for those who have been in the room, however for those who appeared at that stage, there have been 20 international locations represented on that stage.  And as I mentioned, that is the first time that we have now come collectively throughout the hemisphere to take shared duty for the migration problem – international locations of origin, transit international locations, international locations of vacation spot.  And it is a important step ahead, in my judgment, as a result of it really guarantees, I believe, simpler motion in ensuring that we have now humane, orderly, protected migration. 

A number of issues that I might simply level to in the declaration itself as a result of it’s vital.  The commitments that governments made embrace to broaden short-term employee packages to deal with labor shortages whereas decreasing irregular migration.  This is an actual win-win.  It’s a win-win for international locations like the United States, Canada, Mexico.  They dedicated to open and broaden or reinforce different authorized channels for migration, together with refugee resettlement, household unification packages.  That, too, will assist handle crucial labor shortages.  There’s a dedication to surge assist to international locations which can be internet hosting massive refugee and migrant populations to make it possible for that’s sustainable as a result of we see the burden that this locations on communities on totally different elements of our hemisphere.  There’s a dedication to fight and root out human smuggling networks that prey on the most weak in the area. 

So that’s a really robust, principled basis.  Twenty international locations are on board.  My full expectation is that extra will be part of as we go ahead. 

At the identical time, one of the issues we’re doing is working immediately with different international locations with migration preparations in order that we’re wanting in particular person circumstances at what particular steps particular person international locations may take, once more, to assist handle this problem successfully.

So what is going to the outcomes be?  We’ll see.  We need to make it possible for we’re measuring our progress, however this is a vital car for really making progress in managing the migration problem successfully.

I discussed as effectively, we all know that at the same time as we’re taking short-term and medium-term steps to handle migration, in the end, the long-term investments that we’re making an attempt to make in international locations from which so many individuals are leaving are in the end what are going to make the most distinction.  And there, as I discussed, at this summit the Vice President was in a position to announce that, due to her work, we have now an extra $3.2 billion in funding from the non-public sector going to the international locations of northern Central America.

Over time, what that does is it creates alternative.  One of the largest single drivers of migration is a scarcity of alternative.  If we and others might help create it, that’s going to make an enormous distinction.  It will give individuals a selection.

So this can play out over time.  There’s some speedy measures, however – and a few of that is medium time period, some of that is long run. 

As to the second half of the query, first let me say this: in the case of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, they have been right here at the summit.  I met with them.  I met with human rights defenders.  I met with civil society from these international locations.  And I might argue that they’re extra consultant of the individuals in these respective international locations than their present governments or regimes. 

Some different international locations have been right here at the international minister stage however absolutely in power.  We had, I believe all informed, about 68 delegations, 22 heads of state.  And it’s fascinating; I do know some individuals prefer to concentrate on variations of opinion in who’s right here, however everybody was absolutely united on what we did right here.  And I recited some of the concrete achievements of the summit.  That was the focus of nearly of the conversations that I had over the final three days. 

MR PRICE:  We will flip to Missy Ryan of The Washington Post.

QUESTION:  Hi, Secretary Blinken.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Missy.

QUESTION:  You went over this very formidable checklist of deliverables that was introduced throughout the summit, nevertheless it was unclear to me at least whether or not there will likely be a big quantity of new U.S. Government investments related to these, particularly compared to some of the latest U.S. Government assist to Ukraine, for instance.  And I perceive the argument that a lot of the area is now center earnings, however at the identical time we heard some actually poignant appeals from Caribbean nations and others saying that they’re mired in debt attributable to local weather change that’s brought on largely by large international locations like the United States and so they’re drowning in violence brought on largely by U.S.-origin weapons.  Do you suppose maybe the U.S. has a larger monetary duty given its position in – excuse me – contributing to those issues?

And secondly, I need to press you slightly bit extra on a difficulty that you just mentioned with Televisa.  And that’s the grievance that we heard from a quantity of international locations, together with Gabriel Boric when he spoke with The Washington Post this week, a few double normal in U.S. engagement with and assist for some international locations with problematic governments and rights data like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and different international locations which, as you mentioned, aren’t accountable to their individuals, after which selecting to not have interaction with different ones.  I’m simply going to have to take a seat down so I can learn this.

I heard you say that you’re making an attempt to see how one can arise for individuals extra successfully, however might you be extra particular in telling us how you concentrate on when to interact in some international locations with points and when to not have interaction?  And do you suppose that these leaders who’re making that time do have a degree?  Thanks.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Great.  Thanks, Missy.

So first on the query raised very eloquently and powerfully by our companions in the Caribbean, that is one thing that the President and Vice President have been extraordinarily delicate to.  We had what I believed was a wonderful assembly between the President, the Vice President, and our CARICOM companions yesterday.

Now, once more, don’t take it from me.  Ask them what they thought.  Certainly what I heard from them popping out of the assembly, what I heard right now, is that that is, as one of them put it, the finest assembly we’ve had in a decade with the management of the United States.  And the cause it was such a very good assembly is, first of all, as a result of the President and Vice President listened intently to the considerations expressed by international locations in the Caribbean and responded, I believe, successfully to them.

You pointed to one thing actually vital.  There is a distinct type of middle-income entice the place international locations are categorized as being center earnings and even larger earnings, and but they’re significantly by COVID or the local weather disaster, they don’t have the means to reply, and but they don’t qualify for, for instance, concessionary lending.  Or they’ve a lot debt piled up that even when they may qualify, they’ve bought an issue.

So we’re dedicated to tackling this drawback, and the President is engaged to working with the multilateral improvement banks to seek out methods to successfully assist the international locations which can be on this place to make it possible for they’ll get the assist they want for, for instance, local weather adaptation or to reply to the meals disaster or to reply to a well being disaster.

I believe, once more, for those who ask our colleagues from the Caribbean, they’ll, I believe, inform you that they very a lot appreciated the work that was executed.  And a lot in order that one of the agreements that got here out of the assembly yesterday was to right away set up a working group between the United States and the CARICOM international locations to work by way of these sensible issues and to make it possible for we are literally seized by the fierce urgency of now – not subsequent 12 months, not in 5 years, now.

Second half of the query – with any given nation, we’re wanting at a multiplicity of pursuits but additionally a typical thread of values.  President Biden dedicated to placing human rights and democracy at the coronary heart of our international coverage.  It is, however that doesn’t imply that it’s the totality.  It’s a crucial ingredient that we glance to, and we’re all the time making an attempt to evaluate in any given relationship the place we expect we might be only, each in advancing our pursuits however doing it in a approach that’s in line with and advances our values at the identical time.  That is solely going to vary from nation to nation, though that thread runs all through.

So, for instance, in the case of Saudi Arabia, which you talked about, we decided early on that it was vital to recalibrate the relationship, to make it possible for it higher mirrored, in our judgment, our pursuits and values, however to do it in a approach that didn’t rupture the relationship.  It’s a tremendously vital relationship and partnership in phrases of combating extremism, in phrases of coping with Iran; tremendously vital as effectively in making an attempt to deliver to an finish one of the worst conflicts in the world over the final decade that’s been maybe the worst humanitarian disaster on the globe, and that’s the battle in Yemen.  And partially consequently of the work that we’ve been in a position to do with the management of Saudi Arabia, we helped obtain a truce in Yemen that’s now been prolonged for a second interval of time.  Humanitarian help is attending to locations the place it couldn’t earlier than.  And we have now a chance – fragile, however an actual alternative – to possibly have a sustained peace in Yemen.

So that is about getting outcomes, doing it in a principled approach.  We might go down the checklist of every nation, totally different conditions in every, however our focus is the identical:  How can we most successfully advance America’s pursuits but additionally America’s values?

MR PRICE:  Go to Ariel Moutsados of Televisa.

QUESTION:  Thank you, Ned.  Thank you, Mr. Secretary.  I want to know, in the declaration of Los Angeles and – senior officers additionally from the United States Government have mentioned that every one international locations ought to implement or that the United States expects all international locations to implement their very own immigration legal guidelines.  Could you please elaborate on what sort of enforcement actions you will have been discussing, particularly in the case of Mexico?  Thank you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Great, thanks.  If you look at the declaration, it, as I mentioned, units out some very – some fundamental rules and it units out commitments by governments to do sure issues.  The fundamental rules that we agreed to are the absolute have to make it possible for migration is protected, it’s orderly, it’s humane, and we need to make it possible for we’re placing human dignity at the coronary heart of all the pieces that we do.  And which means ensuring that migrants are handled in a humane and dignified approach, that we construct in security alongside the complete course of of migration, however at the identical time, that we uphold and respect our particular person legal guidelines and that these legal guidelines be enforced.

So all of that’s in the declaration.  I went by way of – I received’t belabor it once more – I went by way of the particular commitments that governments have undertaken as half of the declaration in all facets of migration, once more, to incorporate issues like expanded short-term employee packages, to incorporate issues like creating extra authorized channels for migration, assist for communities which can be internet hosting many refugees and migrants, and combating and rooting out smuggling networks.  But in all of this, we anticipate that international locations will, simply as the United States will, uphold and implement its legal guidelines.  Those are all, I believe, comparatively self-evident.  I’m not going to undergo them for every nation.

I discussed as effectively that with this declaration that covers now 20 international locations in the hemisphere, we’ve additionally been engaged with particular person international locations on preparations that go to much more particular issues that international locations can do, significantly in relation to protections for migrants of their system, but additionally when it comes, for instance, to repatriating migrants to the international locations they got here for, imposing their legal guidelines to do this, in search of settlement with different governments to do this.  There’s a protracted, lengthy checklist of issues.  Thank you.

MR PRICE:  Gaby Perozo, VPItv.

QUESTION:  Hi, thanks for doing this.  Thank you.  While we’re right here at the summit, Maduro is at the moment visiting Iran and Turkey, and he’s additionally speaking immediately with Russia and China.  Are you involved that they’ll signal an settlement providing extra issues to the regime than you? 

Maduro refused to return to the dialogue in Mexico.  Do you consider it’s value it for the U.S. to proceed easing sanctions?  You are inserting all of your hope on the negotiations, however what different different are the U.S. exploring moreover Mexico?

And one other query.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  All proper.

QUESTION:  What can we anticipate in the months to return as the U.S. administration shifts its consideration to its different pressing and urgent issues?  How can Latin America keep as a precedence spot for you?  Will your large migration wave persuade you that the area, it’s each political and safety priorities?  Your enemies are in the area.  You’ve seen the immigration card to unsettle the U.S.  Thank you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  All proper, thanks.

First, in relation to negotiations and Venezuela, each the Unitary Platform and the Maduro regime in latest days have signaled an intent to renew these conversations or negotiations in Mexico City.  That is the newest info that we have now.  That’s what we’re wanting towards.

And in our judgment, Venezuelan-led negotiations between the Maduro regime and the Unitary Platform are the finest path that we are able to see to attempt to restore to Venezuelans a democracy that they clearly deserve and clearly need, and alleviate the extraordinary struggling that’s taken place lately.

We’re very a lot dedicated to supporting Venezuelans on this effort and positively their democratic aspirations.  Under the proper circumstances, with the assist of the worldwide neighborhood, the events themselves are finest positioned to barter steps towards an answer to the Venezuelan disaster.

So once more, the most up-to-date info we have now is that there’s an intent to return to Mexico City, and that’s one thing that we assist.

We’ve additionally made clear that in relation to sanctions, sanctions aren’t an finish in themselves.  They are an effort to incentivize those that are on the receiving finish to interact in numerous conduct.  And as we’ve lengthy mentioned, sanctions aren’t everlasting.  If we see change, sanctions might be lifted.  The objective is to not hold them there indefinitely.  The objective is to encourage international locations, regimes, governments, to interact in the proper of conduct, significantly in relation to restoring democracy.  That’s the objective.

The second half of the query:  How can Latin America stay a precedence?  Well, first, I believe we’ve spent virtually every week right here – I bought right here on Tuesday and the President’s been right here for a number of days – making very clear that even in the midst of, for instance, Russia’s aggression in opposition to Ukraine, even in the midst of the broad problem that, for instance, China poses to us, that our personal hemisphere is a precedence.  As I mentioned, this summit introduced collectively some 68 delegations, 22 heads of state. 

But what’s actually vital aren’t the three days right here; it’s the 362 days that may comply with in the 12 months forward.  And the check goes to be whether or not we make good on the commitments that we’ve made right here.  I recited a quantity of them.  You – however extra importantly by way of you, in a way, our residents – will maintain us accountable as to if we really ship on these commitments.

And if we’re going to do this, we have now to remain engaged.  We can’t simply write a declaration, put it in a drawer, and anticipate it to provide outcomes.  This requires sustained day-in/day-put engagement by our authorities, by different governments, by the non-public sector, by civil society, worldwide organizations, et cetera.

But the actual reply to the check will in all probability be six months from now, a 12 months from now, two years from now, once we look again and decide whether or not we’ve made good on the commitments that have been reached right here in Los Angeles.

MR PRICE:  We’ll take a ultimate query from Raquel Krahenbul from Globo.

QUESTION:  Hi.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Hello.

QUESTION:  Thank you, Ned.  Thank you, Secretary Blinken.  I even have two questions.  I’ll ask one first and then you definitely’ll reply, after which I ask the second.  Is that okay?

First query.  President Bolsonaro mentioned right now – you have been there throughout his speech – that Brazil is one of the international locations that almost all protect the atmosphere.  What is your response to that, and do you see actual progress on Brazil’s dedication on slicing deforestation?

MR PRICE:  Raquel, do you need to go forward and ask your second? 

QUESTION:  Okay, positive, positive.  On the first bilateral assembly between President Biden and Bolsonaro yesterday, earlier than the assembly a senior administration official mentioned they have been discussing matters they disagree on.  Bolsonaro defended loads of his outdated positions there, so what do you concentrate on his assertion there?  What have been the disagreements, and what modified for the bilateral relationship now?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good, thanks very a lot. 

QUESTION:  Thank you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Let me discuss the local weather piece first.  Look, I believe it’s well-known that local weather change is a high precedence for our administration, but additionally for international locations in the hemisphere.  This was very a lot entrance and middle in the conversations we had.  Many of the international locations right here, of course, have been along with us at COP26, so that is an everlasting focus for us.

And it’s additionally basically true that Brazil is crucial to those efforts.  It has one of the cleanest vitality grids because it already stands, however of course it’s additionally one of the high emitters of greenhouse gasses, as is the United States.  The Amazon, which we all know are the – actually the lungs of the hemisphere, shops monumental portions of carbon dioxide annually, and that could be a important service to the world in coping with local weather change that we can’t afford to lose.

So we’ve been involved by the persevering with excessive ranges of deforestation in the Amazon, a priority that we’ve expressed.  It’s additionally why we’ve put extra sources by way of one thing referred to as Amazonia Connect to assist Brazil, Colombia, Peru’s efforts to protect the Amazon.  One of the issues that President Biden shared with President Bolsonaro is that we really feel a duty to do this as a result of over many, many, many generations, we have been in a position to take benefit ourselves, for instance, of clearing forests with the intention to have agricultural manufacturing or trade earlier than anybody understood the impression of local weather change. 

And now, as we’re asking different international locations to not have interaction in these sorts of steps, he believes, we consider that we have now a duty to assist.  And that goes with, for instance, serving to to finance adaptation resilience and, in the case of deforestation, ensuring that international locations have the means to not additional have interaction in deforestation and even to interact in reforestation.

So we mentioned all of this.  Brazil has put ahead very formidable local weather commitments.  We hope that they maintain to these commitments.  It would make an enormous distinction on this effort that must be a world one.

And extra broadly, let me say this.  We have, I believe, over a few years a powerful, strong partnership.  It spans centuries, fairly actually, primarily based on shared democratic values, primarily based on loads of mutual pursuits.  The bilateral yesterday was, I believe, finest described as constructive, a chance to deal with loads of points in the bilateral relationship proper now.  I believe – I don’t need to put phrases in President Bolsonaro’s mouth, however I believe I heard him say right now that it was productive and optimistic, and we, too, admire the shut coordination on a complete vary of points.

For instance, we talked about boosting commerce, funding, job creation, working collectively on the atmosphere, as I simply talked about, social and safety points with Brazil.  And our hope – I believe there’s a typical perception and likewise expectation that if we work extra intently collectively, we are able to really ship actual advantages for individuals in each of our international locations.  We occur to be the two largest democracies in the hemisphere; it is smart for us to not solely proceed to work collectively however discover methods to deepen the partnership.

So I believe we had a very good presence, had a very good dialog yesterday about how we are able to transfer ahead in that route.

MR PRICE:  Thank you very a lot, Mr. Secretary.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.

QUESTION:  (Off-mike.)

MR PRICE:  Thank you very a lot.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  This is one thing that’s – has occurred on a considerably common foundation in the previous, I believe even a pair of instances a 12 months.  Countries will make their sovereign choices.  However, the concept that Russia can be a very good accomplice in relation to regulation enforcement points or in relation to humanitarian help, let’s say, doesn’t meet the credibility check.

MR PRICE:  Thank you very a lot.

QUESTION:  Mr. Secretary, you mentioned you need to (inaudible) progress on migration, however (inaudible) approach to do this, sir?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  (Inaudible) be capable of decide whether or not we – whether or not we’ve met them.  People will be capable of decide whether or not we’ve met them.  So I believe it’s very measurable.

QUESTION:  Thank you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.

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