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Blinken Testifies Before US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

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Blinken Testifies Before US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

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© AFP 2023 / SAUL LOEBUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference following meetings with the Icelandic Foreign Minister at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 18, 2021.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference following meetings with the Icelandic Foreign Minister at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 18, 2021. - Sputnik International, 1920, 08.06.2021

This comes following his Middle East tour and meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Iceland.

Watch a live broadcast of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's online testimony before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

The country's top diplomat is expected to comment on the State Department's foreign policy strategy and its budget request for the 2022 fiscal year.

The testimony is taking place following Blinken's recent meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Iceland last month and prior to the June 16 Biden-Putin summit in Geneva.

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