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This afternoon, I joined President @realDonaldTrump, Secretary of State @marcorubio and other leaders for a meeting of the Shield of the Americas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting, convened by President Trump, called for enhanced collective action to combat narco-terrorism and greater efforts to strengthen the resilience of the Western Hemisphere through economic, security and multilateral coordination. We adopted a Joint Communiqué declaring our intent to strengthen the resilience of the Western Hemisphere based on three pillars: economic, security and multilateral coordination. The Shield of the Americas comprises the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago.