Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Holness

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller:

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today in Kingston, Jamaica. Secretary Blinken thanked Prime Minister Holness for hosting the CARICOM High-Level Meeting on Haiti, and for Jamaica’s partnership in facilitating an expedited Multinational Security Support mission deployment to Haiti. He reiterated the United States’s support for a proposal developed in partnership with CARICOM and Haitian stakeholders to expedite a political transition through a creation of a broad based, independent presidential college. Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Holness reiterated security and stability in the Caribbean region as a shared priority of the United States and Jamaica.