Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Meeting with Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso

United States Mission to the United Nations
Office of Press and Public Diplomacy
For Immediate Release
May 6, 2022

Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Meeting with Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso 

The below is attributable to U.S. Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson Olivia Dalton:

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield met today in New York with Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso.  Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield commended the Republic of the Congo’s leadership as Chair of the African Union High-Level Committee in 2021, and shared their mutual concern for the deteriorating situation in Libya and its effects on the region. The two officials also discussed food security and financial crises in many African countries, including the Congo, as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine. 

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