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The meeting laid the groundwork for an expected meeting between Biden and Putin.
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In their first meeting, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov both discussed a desire to find ways to work together and advance areas where there are mutual interests a warmer tone than relations between the two nuclear-armed powers in recent years.
Their meeting laid the groundwork for an expected meeting between President Joe Biden and Russia s Vladimir Putin next month.
It was reported earlier this week that the Biden administration had approved a potential sale of $735 million worth of precision-guided missiles to Israel. As the.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at South by Southwest festival in 2019. Photo: Ståle Grut , from Flickr.
A group of progressive House Democrats have introduced a resolution aimed at stopping a $735 million weapons sale to Israel that the Biden administration approved two weeks ago.
“For decades, the U.S. has sold billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel without ever requiring them to respect basic Palestinian rights. In so doing, we have directly contributed to the death, displacement and disenfranchisement of millions,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a statement. “At a time when so many, including President Biden, support a ceasefire, we should not be sending ‘direct attack’ weaponry to Prime Minister Netanyahu to prolong this violence.”