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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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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Naypyitaw, Burma May 22, 2016 MODERATOR: (Inaudible.) We will commence this press briefing with a brief statement by the Minister for (inaudible) of Myanmar, to be followed by the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and then the minister will take questions. And may I now call upon the minister for to deliver a speech. FOREIGN MINISTER AUNG SAN SUU KYI: Thank you. I won’t take too much time because I don&r...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 7, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year. QUESTION: Happy New Year. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you all doing? Nice to see you all. Thank you very much. So I really just – I wanted to drop by this afternoon not to steal any of John’s thunder, if that’s even possible, by taking questions. There will be plenty of time for that, believe me, over the course of the next few weeks and beyond that. But I wanted to share with you a coupl...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Washington, DC December 16, 2010 12:00 P.M. EST SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good morning. I appreciate very much the President’s words about Ambassador Holbrooke. It was a week ago this morning that he and I and members of our team were meeting about this review and the conclusions to be drawn. As many have observed, he was certainly a giant of diplomacy, but he understood how difficult the mission that he’d be...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC June 29, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, how are you all? I actually missed you. (Laughter.) I know, I know, and I wanted to thank you for the flowers. I really appreciated those. They are immeasurably adding to the healing process. But I wanted to come down because, obviously, there’s a lot going on, and there are a number of important issues to address today. But I want to start with yesterday’s unfortunate events in Honduras,...
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Press Briefing for High School Student Newspaper Editors Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC November 18, 2002 (11:02 a.m. EST) SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good morning, everyone. Forgive me for being a few moments late. I had a meeting that I couldn't break off fast, and then finally I said -- (Photographs being taken.) What did I walk into? A camera club? (Laughter.) QUESTION: They told them they can take pictures. (Laughter.) SECRETARY POWELL: But I finally told my guests that I have to go, I had a ...
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Press Briefing with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Secretary Colin L. Powell Federal Chancellery Berlin, Germany December 10, 2001 CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We are very pleased indeed to have this opportunity of welcoming his Excellency the Foreign Secretary of the United States of America, Mr. Colin Powell to Berlin. Mr. Powell has actually just told us, Joschka and myself, that this is his first visit to Germany since 1986 and Joschka has gone in and most warmly invited h...
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Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Moscow Secretary Colin L. Powell Moscow, Russia December 9, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: I�m distressed to learn there has been another suicide bomber. I cannot understand, I assume, I am not sure if Hamas is taking credit for it. But whether it�s Hamas or one of the other organizations, they need to understand that this leads nowhere. This does not lead to the end of violence, which will lead to negotiations to the settlement of this crisis. So I condemn this action and...
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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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Press Briefing On Board Plane En Route Bucharest Secretary Colin L. Powell Bucharest, Romania December 3, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Who is first? QUESTION: How did it go with Sharon? Did you ask for restraint? SECRETARY: It was a very very sober meeting. The President expressed his regrets and condolences over the terrible tragedy of the night before in both Jerusalem and Haifa. They went and sat down at the photo op, they had a good discussion and Prime Minister Sharon expressed clearly the need for Chair...
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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell En route to Washington, DC, from Shanghai, People's Republic of China October 21, 2001 QUESTION: Did you give formal or informal notification of intent to withdraw from the ABM? SECRETARY POWELL: No, we did not give formal or informal notification of an intention to withdraw from the ABM Treaty. But the President has said repeatedly to President Putin and the Kremlin that we have to get beyond the constraints of the ABM Treaty, and he reinfor...
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Press Briefing Abroad Aircraft En Route to Cairo, Egypt Secretary Colin L. Powell En Route Cairo, Egypt February 23, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : Well good evening. Thank you all for joining me. You have more people than I've got. This is not part of your new trimmed down State Department when I see this group. Glad to have you aboard and look forward to the opportunity of speaking to you as we go around on our various trips, not only this one, but in the future. Why don't we just jump into your questions ra...
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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 9, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. What a beautiful room you have down here. I hope to be spending a lot of time here with you in the months ahead. This is the first formal opportunity I've had to appear before you, although we have had a few occasions over the past few weeks. And I hope you understand that it will be my policy to do everything I can to help you do your jobs, try to do these press conferences o...
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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 1, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: (In progress) -- good meetings in Paris yesterday with President Chirac, and I'm looking forward to meeting him this afternoon. He gave a very interesting and impressive inauguration address which had a lot of elements in it, and I hope to follow up with him on those elements, some of the things he spoke about, the Lusaka Accord and some other issues, so I'm looking forward to meeting with him. With respect to an ...
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