US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, attending the Davos forum on Wednesday, was forced to delay his departure from Switzerland due to a technical problem with his plane.
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The head of the American diplomacy, who spent a day and a half in the famous ski resort to participate in the World Economic Forum, was unable to leave Zurich at the scheduled time due to what an American official called a “critical failure” of the your device due to a loss of oxygen.
Another plane was sent to pick him up as members of his delegation returned to Washington on a scheduled flight.
Airline problems are not uncommon for the Secretary of State, who depends on an aging fleet of official planes, the renewal of which Congress is reluctant to fund.
Mr Blinken has made four trips to the Middle East, often visiting several countries a day, since Hamas’s bloody October 7 attack on Israel, which responded with a large-scale military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
2024-01-17 18:47:34
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