The US secretary, Antony Blinken, summarized the year 2023 with the media and discussed the foreign policy priorities for 2024. According to him, this year the world faced a number of significant challenges, and the US, together with its partners, will continue to work next year to strengthen a free and secure world. 

"As we head into 2024, we will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who share our vision for a free, open, prosperous, and secure world, because that’s what delivering for the American people demands. First, we will continue to rally countries around the world to support Ukraine’s freedom and independence and to ensure that Russia’s aggression remains a strategic failure.  Putin has already failed to achieve his principal objective in Ukraine: erasing it from the map, subsuming it into Russia. It’s been a hard year on the battlefield, but, once again, Ukrainians have done what no one thought was possible:  They stood toe to toe with one of the world’s biggest militaries, they conceded no territory despite multiple Russian offensives, and they pushed Russia’s navy back in the Black Sea and opened a corridor to allow them to export their grain and other products to the world. Russia is weaker militarily, economically, diplomatically.  NATO is bigger and stronger and more united than at any point in its nearly 75-year history.  This year, we added our 31st member of NATO – Finland.  And Sweden will join soon, bringing even greater potency and capability to our defensive alliance. International support has been critical to Ukraine’s success.  Europe has contributed more than $110 billion to Ukraine compared to about $70 billion from the United States.  So we have with Ukraine and in Ukraine maybe the best example of burden sharing that I’ve seen in the time that I’ve been engaged in these issues. Just last week, the European Union also agreed to start accession talks with Ukraine.  Japan, Korea, Australia, others in the Indo-Pacific, they’ve stepped up too, from helping rebuild Ukraine’s energy grid to providing major military and humanitarian assistance.  Like us, they know that supporting Ukraine is vital to showing would-be aggressors everywhere that we will stand up to those who seek to redraw borders by force", - stated Secretary Blinken.