State Department Press Conference Underway Shortly

US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price is shortly due to deliver a press conference from the Department of State.

• Livestream: https://www.state.gov/todays-briefing-schedule/
• The presser comes as Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins a bilateral meeting with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard.
• The US and Mexico continue to fail to make progress resolving a trade dispute over Mexico’s energy policy, which the US claims favours state-owned Mexican companies over US and Canadan firms, in violation of the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).
• Price will also take questions on a strongly worded State Department statement released yesterday criticising the sentencing of Istanbul Mayor, and key Turkish opposition figure, Ekrem Imamoglu, a move likely to further strain relations between the US and NATO ally Turkey.