The phrase "a recent statement in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific statement made recently within a particular context, such as a report, article, or discussion.
Example: "In a recent statement in the company newsletter, the CEO addressed the upcoming changes in policy."
Alternatives: "a recent comment in" or "a recent declaration in".
While Mr. Schundler was attacking Mr. McGreevey, Mr. Schundler today was the subject of an anonymous attack, by fax machine, over a recent statement in which he likened himself to Christ in talking about his battles with the teachers union.
"We are an open society," Robert C. Bonner, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said in a recent statement in Washington after a series of news reports in Britain and the United States suggesting just the opposite.
Earlier this month, Libya's government called on the parliament in Tobruk, to fire Ghariani from his position, angry about a recent statement in which he accused the authorities of seeking support abroad for foreign military intervention.
In her opening monologue, Rae took on Kanye for a recent statement in which he described slavery as "a choice," USA Today reported.
In a recent statement quoted in The Post, the Rural Advancement Foundation said that "critics are concerned that the advent of golden rice's 'quick fix' for Vitamin A deficiency could kneecap other low-tech and more cost-effective initiatives -- among them, to reintroduce the many vital-rich food plants that were once cheap and available".
In a recent statement, DfID said: "In conflict situations where denying an abortion in accordance with national law would threaten the mother's life or cause unbearable suffering, international humanitarian law principles may justify performing an abortion".
The government of President Yoweri Museveni, while distancing itself from the bill, defended the right for the bill to be debated in Uganda's Parliament, saying in a recent statement that "cultural attitudes in Africa are very different to elsewhere".
In a recent statement as well as in letters to 49 company presidents in New York State's pension portfolio (including Apple, McDonald's, Nike and Twentieth Century Fox) he asked each to measure and report inclusion across the enterprise, beginning in 2019.
But in a recent statement, Martin Kobler, the United Nations representative in Iraq, said a parliamentary vote on new commissioners was "now unlikely to take place," casting doubt on whether Iraq's election schedule can hold.
In a recent statement, Feinstein said the concerns she outlined in March, particularly concerning public safety and the preemption of state laws, have yet to be adequately addressed.
