26 minutes agoNed Price leaves the spokesman post, gets another assignment in the KAS
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(3 years ago)State Department spokesman Ned Price will leave this month from this post after more than two years and take a new position with Secretary of State Antony Blinken himself, Blinken said on Tuesday. Price took her oath on January 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as [...]
Price took the oath on January 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as president. He has held this post in a key period of foreign policy, during Russian aggression against Ukraine and the chaotic withdrawal of diplomats and other personnel from Afghanistan, writes VOA.
In a statement, Blinken said Price held more than 200 conferences with journalists, acting both the face and voice of US foreign policy.
It has helped the American government protect and promote press freedom across the globe and set the example of transparency and sincerity for which we call in other countries. His influence can be felt in the State Department for a long time after he leaves task” said Blinken.
Shawn Tandon, president of the State Department Correspondents Association, praised Mr. Price for restoring daily press conferences and facing difficult journalists' questions, as in the case of withdrawing from Afghanistan.
“Thanks to Ned, the daily press conference now seems routine and should be so. It offers an opportunity for the press from around the world to raise questions about the foreign policy of the United States, often critically,”, Tandon said in a statement.
It's a health indicator of American democracy. ”
