Blinken to travel to UK to discuss Middle East, Ukraine

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Blinken to travel to *** to discuss Middle East, Ukraine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to travel to the ******* Kingdom on Monday, a week after Britain suspended some arms export licences with ******* over equipment that could be used in the war in Gaza.

In the trip slated to go through to Tuesday, Blinken will open the US-*** Strategic Dialogue, “reaffirming our special relationship,” Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, said on Saturday.

Blinken will also meet with senior government officials to discuss issues including the Indo-Pacific, the AUKUS defence pact between the US, Australia, Britain and the Middle East, and collective efforts to support Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Britain said on September 2 it was immediately suspending 30 of its 350 arms export licenses with *******, saying there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law in *******’s war with ****** in the densely populated ************ enclave of Gaza.

The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running to succeed him, is under pressure from critics of the war to suspend some arms deliveries to *******, Washington’s closest Middle East ally.

A US official said in July the Biden administration would resume shipping 500-pound ****** to ******* but would continue to hold back on supplying 2000-pond ****** over concerns about their use in Gaza.

CIA Director William Burns, chief US negotiator for an end to the war in Gaza, said in London on Saturday that a more detailed ceasefire proposal would be made in the coming days.

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