# Live: Rubio delivers major speech in Athens

https://mins.news/en/video/89919

- VOA Chinese, 2026-10-07 15:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKupgnxM8C4

> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, October 7, focusing on the shared roots of ancient Greek democracy and Western civilization. He urged the United States and Europe to recover the “Western spirit” and defend common values amid great-power competition in a new era. VOA offered a live broadcast with Chinese simultaneous interpretation.

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