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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC January 5, 2017 Introduction When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and had a diminished standing with many of our allies and partners around the world. The starting point for this Presidency was one of the toughest I have ever seen in my decades of public service. Over the past eight years, President Ob...
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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome. I – we’re 80-some days from the – as we sit here today at the University of Chicago, we’re 80-some days from the end of this administration. It seems like a good time to kind of look back a little bit at your life and your career. And I wanted to ask you, I’m so intrigued by the fact that your dad was in the Foreign Service. And I was – what influence did tha...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC September 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Monday to all of you. Let me begin, if I can, just by – you can sort of see it with some of the banners and the large fish out in front of the State Department that this is a big week for the department, because on Thursday and Friday we’re going to be hosting our third Our Ocean conference, which we started two years ago with the meeting that took place in Chile interrup...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France March 13, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AYRAULT: (Via interpreter) (In progress) This is a conflict that next Tuesday will be completing its fifth year of existence. Now the intra-Syrian negotiations should resume tomorrow and they will be very difficult. But together we would like to restate the support we want to give to the moderate opposition. The moderate opposition has decided to attend the Geneva talks and to sit around the table for the negotiations. W...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, DC December 8, 2014 Thank you very much, Myron, and I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) I am happy to be here with all of you. It’s got to be hard walking around with everybody calling you brilliant, don’t you think? (Laughter.) Not a bad way to go. Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Guests all, Ambassadors, Your Excellencies, my great friend former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa, former Deputy Secr...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna, Austria July 15, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everyone. I want to first thank the extraordinary team of diplomats and experts who have been on the ground here for weeks and who have been working tirelessly, actually, for many months in these negotiations. And I’m talking about both our American team as well as our colleagues from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran, and particularly I would like to thank Baron...
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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC June 23, 2014 Today, the international maritime task force completed the critical mission of removing the last 8 percent of declared chemical weapons precursors from Syria. With this step, 100 percent of the declared chemicals are out of war-torn Syria. We congratulate the OPCW-UN Joint Mission and the entire international coalition, which operated under dangerous conditions to remove more than 1,000 tons of declared chemical weapons materials...
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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium December 4, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: There was a great deal of commitment expressed, of understanding and solidarity. And the numbers of troops that are being announced is heartening. We heard this morning from – off the top of my head – the Italians, the Poles, the Slovaks. I mean, we had a very good time listening to what was coming forth. And between absolutely brand-new commitments, and a willingness and resolve to leav...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 30, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: The 6,195 th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is before the Council in document S/Agenda 6,195, which reads, and I quote: “Women and Peace and Security,” end of quote. Unless I hear any objection, I shall consider the agenda adopted. The agenda is adopted. I should like to inform the Council that I ...
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Interview With Sylvie Lanteaume, Lachlan Carmichael, and Jordi Zamora Barceló of Agence France-Presse Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 22, 2008 QUESTION: Thank you. I guess we’ll start by looking forward a little bit, and I know you welcomed the election of Barack Obama – SECRETARY RICE: Yes. QUESTION: – and for what it meant for the United States, and also how the outside world looked at Obama. But why do you think there is such overwhelming support around the...
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Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Tashkent, Uzbekistan Secretary Colin L. Powell Tashkent, Uzbekistan December 7, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : Okay, who�s first? QUESTION : Can you tell us how your meeting with Foreign Minister Ivanov went? What did you decide? What were the issues that you discussed? Are they okay with the NATO thing? And did you talk about Iraq? SECRETARY POWELL : Foreign Minister Ivanov and I talked about the meeting that we had just concluded with the Permanent Joint Council, and he...
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Briefing on G-8 Ministerial With Italian Foreign Minister Ruggiero, French Foreign Minister Verdine, German Foreign Minister Fischer, and Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov Secretary Colin L. Powell Press conference at Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy July 19, 2001 ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RUGGIERO: Good afternoon. In the framework of the meetings of the Genoa summit, the eight Foreign Ministers of the countries that are taking part in this summit met yesterday and today together with the Mi...
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Remarks on Trip to G-8 Foreign Ministers meeting Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press En Route To Rome, Italy July 17, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Let me just start by noting the passing of Kay Graham who was something of a Washington legend, but to me she was a dear friend. I�ve known her for many years, when I first sort of sprung out of the army and showed up in Washington circles in 1987, she was one of the first persons who kind of took me in, and befriended me at that level and in that circle...
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