Pandor: Blinken did not come to tell SA to choose sides in the Ukraine-Russia war: The US secretary of state said that when one country invades another country, sovereignty and independence mattered
Minister Naledi Pandor on Monday acknowledged that she and her visiting United States counterpart, Antony Blinken, were on opposite sides on several issues including Russia’s war against Ukraine but were committed to strengthening bilateral cooperation.that includes Cambodia, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. It is the first strategic dialogue between South Africa and the US in seven years.
“We also hope that more of us are persuaded that reform of the UN, especially the UNSC [United Nations Security Council], is urgently necessary.” “America is not asking us to choose. I don’t recall any attempt by the United States to do that. But in terms of our interaction with some of our partners in Europe and elsewhere, there has been a sense of patronising bullying toward you choose this, or else. I definitely will not be bullied in that way,” she said.
Blinken said the two countries’ bilateral relationships were driven by a range of global issues, including regional security problems, the future of multilateralism, Covid-19, climate change and global food security.
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