ICYMI: Senator Coons leads conversations on U.S. global leadership at Wilmington conference

WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) hosted and participated in the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's (USGLC) annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Summit at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington on Friday. In addition to Senator Coons, the multi-panel conference featured Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.); Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States; David Beasley, former Executive Director of the World Food Programme, and other panelists.

Senator Coons joined fellow lawmakers, foreign policy experts, and private-sector leaders in conversations about how America's leadership and development assistance positively impacts Delaware and supports small businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the state. The conference also placed a particular emphasis on the importance of investments in Africa's economic growth and global food security.

Here's what the media covered:

6ABC:

Leaders in foreign policy and global affairs joined together for a summit today at Wilmington's Hotel Du Pont. The summit was hosted by Delaware Senator Chris Coons. It brought together representatives for seminars on climate, finance, and global food security. … Lisa Blunt Rochester delivered opening remarks to the attendees.

WDEL:

The annual Global Leadership Coalition Mid-Atlantic Summit [was] held today in Wilmington. WDEL's Mike Phillips reports global economic development was a major topic of discussion.

Delaware Senator Chris Coons says at one point in time, the U.S. was on the wrong side in Angola: "We have an opportunity to move the trajectory in this region in a positive direction to give the people of Angola and Zambia and Malawi opportunity and options and choices and we should take it."

Coons says U.S.-backed programs like the long-running Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) have shown tremendous results in the past 20 years, including a 50% increase in the average life expectancy in Zambia. Among the speakers was Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States.