Thursday July 22, 2021
See you after five years
Blinken meets Grobi from Sesame Street
As US Secretary of State, video switching is part of everyday business for Antony Blinken, but this should be something special: In “Sesame Street” he is chatting with Grobi and his friends in Bangladesh. The video is aimed particularly at refugee children.
Diplomacy in the nursery: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared again in a video clip on the children’s program “Sesame Street”. Blinken published a short video on his Twitter account on Wednesday in which he spoke to Grobi (original name: Grover) about his work as Foreign Minister.
“I meet people from all over the world and see where they live,” the 59-year-old tells the fluffy blue monster in a video link. Blinken explains that he sometimes meets people who have to leave their home because it is no longer safe for them there. According to the minister, many refugees are children.
The six-year-old twins Noor and Aziz also appear in the video. The dolls are refugee children from the Rohingya ethnic group. The still quite new characters were developed to help children in refugee camps in Bangladesh to learn. “We had to leave our home,” says Doll Aziz to the politician. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh for fear of brutal military attacks in their home country of Myanmar.
For Blinken it is not the first appearance with Sesame Street resident Grobi. The two could already be seen together in a video in 2016. At that time Blinken explained to the blue monster what the United Nations was – at that time Blinken was US Deputy Secretary of State.
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