This archive report was first published on 17 July 2021.
On July 17, 2021, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Raychelle Omamo, met with United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington D.C. to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries.
The meeting focused on access to vaccines and post-COVID-19 economic recovery programs, as well as regional and multilateral issues of mutual interest to both countries.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that 1.7 million doses of vaccines will soon be delivered to Kenya as part of America's support in the fight against the virus.
'We are very pleased to have been able to help in the fight against COVID-19 and provision of vaccines. There is still much to be done on the continent and we are looking forward to working more with Kenya,' Blinken stated.
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Raychelle Omamo, called on the international community to work together to ensure that COVID vaccines are available to all, hastening universal economic recovery.
'There is still hope that all countries can build back together. We build back better on our continent and we can do so in partnership with friends,' Omamo said.
