US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in an interview on Thursday that the United States nonetheless doesn’t know what causes or is answerable for the illness often called Havana syndrome, with extra US diplomats in Paris and Geneva after being sick.
Blinken stated your entire federal authorities is working to unravel the illness, which has bothered almost 200 American diplomats, officers and relations overseas.
“To this day, we don’t know exactly what happened and we don’t know who is responsible,” Blinken stated in an interview with MSNBC.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported further diseases amongst officers serving in US diplomatic missions in Paris and Geneva, the place the United States and Russia held safety talks on Monday over constructing Moscow’s army close to the border with Ukraine.
Blinken stated the United States had picked up the ills with the Russians however nonetheless couldn’t decide who was accountable. The mysterious sickness causes signs together with migraine, nausea, reminiscence loss and dizziness. It was first reported amongst US officers within the Cuban capital in 2016.
Blinken stated he has met with State Department workers all over the world who’ve described the diseases and the way these occasions have disrupted their lives.
“There is no doubt in my mind that people have been directly and powerfully affected,” he stated.
“We in your entire authorities are working additional time to unravel what occurred, who’s accountable. And within the meantime to ensure we’re caring for anybody affected and to maintain all of our folks secure to one of the best of our potential.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
