Antony Blinken parents: Judith Pisar, Donald M. Blinken

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The famous Antony John Blinken is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.

Blinken expressed his support for extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia to limit the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads. Blinken said the Biden administration will “review” security assistance to Azerbaijan due to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and voiced his support for the provision to Armenia of security assistance.

Antony Blinken parents: Judith Pisar, Donald M. Blinken

Blinken was born in Yonkers, New York, to Jewish parents, Judith (Frehm) and Donald M. Blinken. Donald Mayer Blinken was an American businessman and diplomat. He was a director and one of the founders of E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, an investment bank in New York. He served as the board chairman of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990 and as United States Ambassador.

Blinken’s father was president of the Mark Rothko Foundation from 1976 to 1989. He lived in the River House and East Hampton, New York. In 2015, the Open Society Archives in Hungary renamed Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives after receiving a major donation from the couple. Blinken died in East Hampton, New York on September 22, 2022, at the age of 96.

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