US to engage other countries in multilateral efforts: Tillerson

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The Trump Administration will target areas where it sees the greatest risk and engage other countries in multilateral approaches, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said as he assured that the State Department would continue to remain effective despite a massive proposed budgetary cut.

Asserting that the world has changed dramatically, Tillerson said the US will have a “very open” and “honest conversation” with its allies about how to share their burden which they have been carrying.

“We all carry the burden. We’re not going to set the burden down. We’re not going to walk away. But we have to talk about how we’re going to carry this burden going forward because the world has changed,” he said.

“We have to target the areas where we see the greatest risk and the greatest opportunity to achieve some success, but also engage other countries in multilateral approaches,” Tillerson told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a Congressional hearing yesterday.