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Added on the 07/11/2022 14:15:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is welcomed by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on a visit to Warsaw. IMAGES
The US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, says NATO allies 'will not slam the door shut on NATO's open door policy' following Russia-NATO meeting in Brussels. Sherman insisted NATO is 'solely' a defensive alliance and that has never expanded through 'force or coercion or subversion'. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Kyiv surprise visit, during which he is expected to announce new aid of one billion dollars to Ukraine, after another night of Russian strikes against this country. IMAGES
The United States adds new "sanctions" on Russia's FSB intelligence agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard for taking "hostage" Americans like a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last month, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shakes hands with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for a photo op ahead of a closed-door meeting. Lavrov is at the helm of the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in April. Guterres denounced the "devastation" caused by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine during a Security Council meeting chaired by Lavrov. IMAGES