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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Jose W. Fernandez, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Ramin Toloui, Assistant SecretaryBureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Franklin Room
MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez; Special Representative for Commercial and Business Af
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Franklin Room
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon. Welcome. Welcome back to the State Department for so many of you. Welcome to the Ben Franklin Room, newly refurbished. A lot went into this. And I think maybe a word about Ben Franklin before we get to today’s event.
As you all know, he was America’s first diplomat, ambassador to France, negotiated our first treaty, charted the Gulf Stream, pioneered el
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Dean Steinberg, Jim, thank you for the honor of joining the SAIS community to help inaugurate this truly magnificent new home.
Jim has contributed so much over his remarkable career, but his most lasting contribution is the generation of thinkers, the generation of d
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone, and thanks to each of our leaders for being here today. To those joining us from around the world, welcome. I hope to spend as much of this time in discussion with you, so let me be brief at the start. But I want to say why meeting with young leaders at the Summit for Democracy is so important to us and to me.
One of President Biden’s top priorities is ensuring that the voices o
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Benjamin Franklin Room
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s really a pleasure to welcome Foreign Minister Shoukry and all of the members of the Egyptian delegation here as we open the Egypt-U.S. Strategic Dialogue. Sameh, welcome again. It’s great to have you back in Washington. We had the opportunity to meet in Cairo many months ago now, then in New York during the UN General Assembly. We’ve
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. And good evening to those watching in Kuwait.
Dr. Ahmad, it’s wonderful to be with you, to host you and your team here in Washington, D.C. The foreign minister and I just completed a great conversation, a productive gathering, and our teams have been doing the same. These annual meetings each time have been more productive than the one previously. And that’s in good p
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Ben Franklin Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be with you again, Dom, Foreign Secretary Raab, back here in – to have you back here in Washington. Our Special Relationship, now a couple hundred years old, is stronger than ever. And I hope you feel right here at home, as I do when I travel to visit you in the United Kingdom.
We had good conversations back in July in Lond
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Fuad Hussein, Iraqi Foreign Minister
Washington, D.C.
Dean Acheson Auditorium
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone, and thank you – thank you, Dr. Fuad and the entire Iraqi delegation for joining us here in Washington today.
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
The United States leads the world in global health assistance and is committed to protecting life through every health program funded by American taxpayers. The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) Policy aims to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funding does not support foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.
Today, the State Department, in conjunction with the U.S. Departm
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Well, good afternoon, everyone.
On behalf of the United States, I want to extend our deepest condolences to all those who were affected by the massive explosion at the port of Beirut yesterday. We stand ready to assist the Government of Lebanon and its – as it grapples with this horrible tragedy. You’ll see the United States announce a number of things we intend to do to assist
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. Good to be with you all today. I want to start my remarks, as I often do, on matters relating to China.
As many of you saw, I met with Yang Jiechi last week in Hawaii.
We had a very frank discussion about the Chinese Communist Party’s unprovoked aggression on a number of fronts and I pressed him for more transparency on COVID for the good
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