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Longtime Assistant to US President Joe Biden for Foreign Policy Anthony Blinken approved as head of the State Department U.S.
The decision was made on January 26 in the Senate, CNN reports. Note that Blinken’s candidacy American with Ukrainian roots, appointed a new head of the United States.
Most of the senators voted in favor, while three representatives of the Republican Party voted against.
Before that, his candidacy was supported by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
I added: Blinken repeatedly visited Kiev, knows Russian President Vladimir Putin well and supports the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Therefore, he regularly criticized Russian policy towards Ukraine and accused the Russian chief of stirring up the conflict in Donbass.
“Putin tries to destabilize Ukraine forevergrowing internal discontent over Kiev’s inability to end the occupation, seeking by all means to return Ukraine to the Russian sphere of influence after the invasion and harassment, “Blinken wrote in an October 2017 column for The New York Times.
The main thing about the biography of the new head of the US State Department:
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Born on April 16, 1962 in New York, he graduated from Harvard Law School, Columbia University with a degree.
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In the 80s he worked as a reporter for The New Republic magazine, then as a lawyer in New York and Paris, and in the 90s he entered the administration of then-President Bill Clinton, where he managed to perform in various positions.
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From 2009 to 2013, he served as the deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama. In 2015-2017. he was the United States undersecretary of state.
As OBOZREVATEL wrote, Blinken previously said that his grandfather emigrated from Kiev to the United States and that his stepfather escaped the Holocaust thanks to an American oil tanker during World War II.
Read about what the new head of the US State Department said about Ukraine and what to expect in our country, read the material here.
