Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, on Feb. 15 in Brussels. (Reuters)
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday talked up the importance of friends and allies as he visited two European capitals one day after Vice President Pence harshly criticized allies he said are helping Iran evade sanctions.
“No more will we take our friends, our true allies, our partners for granted,” he told reporters after noting he was the first secretary of state to visit in a decade and saying Iceland, like the Eastern European countries he visited on this trip, had done exactly that. “We simply can’t afford to neglect them.”
Pompeo stopped in Iceland while returning home from Warsaw, where the United States co-hosted a Middle East peace and security conference that was focused largely on what the administration considers the malign influence of Iran.
View the complete February 15 article by Carol Morello on The Washington Post website here.