US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo will cut short his trip to Asia this week, a spokeswoman said on Saturday, as President Donald Trump is hospitalized to treat his COVID-19.
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The Secretary of State will be in Tokyo from Sunday to Tuesday, where he will meet the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan, but he will not go to South Korea or Mongolia like this. was originally scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, according to Morgan Ortagus.
“Secretary Pompeo plans to travel to Asia again in October and will work to reschedule visits for this tour in just a few weeks,” she said, without mentioning Donald Trump’s illness.
Asked Friday in Croatia by journalists who asked him if the president’s positive test would change his program, Mike Pompeo replied that he would carry out his Asian tour as planned next week, including stages in South Korea and Mongolia.
He said he had not met President Trump since September 15 and the signing at the White House of agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and between the Jewish state and Bahrain.
The Secretary of State also announced that he had been declared negative for the coronavirus a few hours after the announcement by Donald Trump that he had himself been infected and was going into quarantine.