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Anthony Blinken: The US Secretary of State meets Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah and renews his country’s support for the two-state solution

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On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, at the end of an intensive diplomatic tour.

Blinken, at the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, expressed his “sorrow” and offered his “condolences” for the killing of innocent Palestinians “in the escalation of violence over the past year.”

Blinken affirmed the United States’ commitment to the two-state solution and said he opposed any unilateral measures that prevented it.

Blinken enumerated among these measures “the expansion of settlements or the legalization of outposts, acts of demolition and expulsion, a change in the status quo in holy places, and of course incitement or approval of violence.”

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