US State Secretary, set to Visit UAE

United States of America, Antony Blinken is set to visit UAE during his weeklong tour of the Middle East this week starting with Turkey today.
The visit come a few days after more than 100 people were killed in an explosion near Soleimani tomb during his assassination’s anniversary in Iran.
Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, as well as Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, U.S. state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement on Thursday.
As fears grow over the Israel-Hamas war triggering a wider regional conflict with the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut earlier this week, Miller told reporters Blinken aims to push Israeli officials on a plan for post-war Gaza.
“You will see us pushing additional steps on what Gaza should look like at the end of the conflict,” he said to reporters on Thursday. “Those are going to be some of the toughest conversations of course but we’re ready to go pursue them.”
Miller also stressed the importance of deterring Houthi attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
The tour marks Blinken’s fourth trip to the region since Oct 7.
By Desmond Nleya , Daily Times
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