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SECRETARY BLINKEN: John, thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. John, my old friend, thank you very, very much. And as always, here, it’s particularly good to be with leaders from across government, business, civil society. So when you think about soil, the U.S. Secretary of State is probably not the first person who comes to mind. (Laughter.) But the truth is soil is literally at the root of many pressing national security challenges that we face. You all know this, and we know this increasingly with every passing day: without good soil, crops fail, prices rise,…
