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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Parco dei Principi Hotel Rome, Italy December 2, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER GENTILONI: (Via interpreter) Good evening. Welcome to the Secretary of State and the Minister of Foreign Affair’s meeting. Thank you. Thank you to the Secretary of State John Kerry for having accepted to take part in this MED dialogues. I consider this a gesture of friendship, of consideration towards our country. I also thank him for the strategic type speech he made at the meet...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Hilton Chicago Hotel Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. And thank you, very, very much to Ivo Daalder. Thank you, sir, Mr. Ambassador. And thanks to the Chicago Council for Global Affairs for inviting me here. And a profound thank you to Ambassador Lou Susman for his very generous introduction. And most importantly, Marge and Lou, thank you for many, many years of extraordinary friendship. I really value it. And I thin...

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Photos from China» Photos from Bangladesh and India» Photos from Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, on August 22 to meet with President Kenyatta to discuss regional security issues and counterterrorism cooperation, as well as bilateral issues. Secretary Kerry also met with Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed and other regional foreign ministers to discuss key challenges in East Africa, including the prospects for re...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Justus Lipsius Building Brussels, Belgium July 18, 2016 HIGH REPRESENTATIVE MOGHERINI: Thank you very much. John, welcome. It’s an honor and it’s been a pleasure to welcome you for the first time at the Foreign Affairs Council with the 28 foreign ministers of our union just a few days after our leaders summit in Warsaw, where we clearly reaffirmed that transatlantic unity has never been so important and so strong. And the EU-U.S. relationship ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Greenwald Pavilion, Aspen Institute Aspen, Colorado June 28, 2016 MR ISAACSON: Thank you very much. It’s a great honor and pleasure for us to have a man I’ve admired – most of us have admired – for many years, a man who – U.S. Naval, served in Vietnam, won the Purple Heart – I mean, three Purple Hearts, the bronze medal, the silver medal, has been a senator, candidate for president, and now our Secretary of State. In the past two ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Mission Geneva, Switzerland May 2, 2016 AMBASSADOR HAMAMOTO: Secretary, it’s so great to have you back here in Geneva. After coming here numerous times over the last couple years, it’s now been about nine months since your last visit, and I will say we were starting to worry that we weren’t your favorite post anymore. (Laughter.) So thank you very much for coming back to Geneva to dispel that notion once and for all. We like being your favorit...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter in progress) – group works, six group works in different issues, and with regard to the defense of the GCC countries against any attack and how to counterattack the – and how to deal with the challenges in the region whether in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya. And we reviewed the peace efforts and the Palestine issue. Also we reviewed the efforts to counter t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC March 15, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here with us. It’s my privilege today to welcome the Foreign Minister of Georgia, Mikheil Janelidze. I’m very happy to have him here. I have had the privilege of traveling several times to Georgia previously, and it’s very much my hope to be able to get there somewhere in the course of the next months. Before I say a few words about Georgia, wi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC February 23, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I’m delighted to welcome Minister Wang Yi back to the State Department to the Ben Franklin Room and back to Washington. And we had a – this is about the third time that we have now met in the last weeks, and we’ve had occasion to have a lot of conversations about all of the topics of interest between our countries. As I have said many times, the United St...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State New York, NY December 18, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for coming. First of all, I want to express again my appreciation and the appreciation of all of the P5 members of the International Syria Support Group who worked through the day, and I appreciate Foreign Minister Lavrov’s engagement and his commitment to trying to get to a place that everybody could be comfortable. What we’ve achieved today is ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State The Kremlin Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015 FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today, we had a big negotiating day with John Kerry and his delegation finalizing their working visit to Moscow. We started with negotiations at Russian foreign ministry and we continued here in the Kremlin during the meeting with President Putin. Negotiations in the morning and in the evening were concrete, specific. We were focusin...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna, Austria November 14, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: (In French.) I’ll just say what I said, the last part, in English. I want to make sure that it is absolutely crystal clear that the United States stands with France and the rest of the world in our resolve to eliminate the scourge of violent extremist groups from the face of the Earth. And make no mistake: that resolve has only grown stronger in the wake of this unspeakable brutality. And I think Se...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission Residence Paris, France September 15, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: All right. I want to make – I know we get crunched a little bit, but I really want to lay out some things that I think are very important and then you guys can ask some questions. Let me begin by saying that I sat in that room today with – how many nations were there? Thirty? MS. PSAKI: Twenty-six. SECRETARY KERRY: Twenty-six total? STAFF: Thirty delegations. SECRETARY KERRY: Th...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State New Delhi, India July 31, 2014 QUESTION: Well, America-India relations have been in a bit of a rut for the last two or three years. Perhaps as a sign of an intent to change, we have two of the most senior important members of the Obama Administration. We have John Kerry, Secretary of State, and Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce. It’s great to have you here. Thank you for being with us. SECRETARY PRITZKER: Thank you for having us. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan New Delhi, India July 31, 2014 MODERATOR: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I welcome you to this media interaction. As is usual, we will first have opening statements by the two dignitaries, following which they have agreed to respond to a couple of questions each. We now begin the program. May I request that External Affairs Minister of India Shrimati Sushma Swaraj to make her opening remarks. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER SWARAJ: Thanks. We ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Department of Foreign Affairs Manila, Philippines December 17, 2013 MODERATOR: Friends from the media, let us welcome the arrival of the Honorable Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert S. del Rosario and His Excellency, John F. Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert S. del Rosario and His Excellency, John F. Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States of America, will now give the...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam December 15, 2013 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, I want to get right to reports out of North Korea that the young leader, Kim Jong-un, has executed his uncle, his mentor, one of the most powerful people in North Korea. What does this tell you about the danger coming from North Korea? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, it tells us a lot about, first of all, how ruthless and reckless he is. And it also tells us a lot about how insecure he is, to a certain de...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC November 20, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Bishop and Defence Minister Johnston to Washington for what has been a very productive Australia-United States Ministerial meeting, or AUSMIN as we call it for short. I think everybody understands that the relationship between the United States and Australia is really extraordinary, and though we live in different hemispheres and ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Riyadh Air Base Riyadh, Saudi Arabia November 4, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER SAUD: (Via interpreter) In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. It’s my pleasure to welcome Secretary John Kerry and his delegation in Saudi Arabia. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques received Secretary Kerry this afternoon. In the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and the developments in the region. I’d like to take this opportunity to address the recent media ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Cairo, Egypt November 3, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER FAHMY: (Via interpreter) Good evening, Mr. Secretary. In the beginning, I would like to extend my thanks and welcome to you here in Egypt, especially at a time when the Middle East is witnessing very sensitive developments and when there is a need for international harmony and communications. With regards to the U.S.-Egyptian relations, we believe that they are very important to Egypt and we would like to fur...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 16, 2013 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Glad to be with you. QUESTION: In these last travels of yours, you paid an unscheduled visit to Kabul at a time when President Karzai was talking about letting the U.S. forces leave Afghanistan completely, 100 percent. And you came away with the makings of a deal that would allow some U.S. forces to stay. What is in that agreement, and what remains to be worked out? SEC...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bali, Indonesia October 7, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube.  SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning, everybody. I want to thank Foreign Minister Lavrov for joining me here today to sign this important agreement. Amending the NRRC agreement is another important step towards reducing risks associated with nuclear weapons, and I think both of us are cognizant of the fact that 26 years ago our predecessors from the United States and ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu New York City September 27, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning. Thank you all very, very much for joining us here at this counterterrorism forum. We’re very grateful to all of you for taking time. I’m delighted to welcome you to New York for the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum. And before we begin, I just want to say a couple of words about the recent attacks in Nairobi and Pe...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, United Kingdom September 9, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. FOREIGN SECRETARY HAGUE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a great pleasure to host my great friend and colleague, John Kerry, here in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office once again. Of course, we have spent most of our time discussing the crisis in Syria. But I want to begin by paying tribute to Secretar...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari Deputy Secretary Conference Room Washington, DC August 15, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome. We’re very, very happy to welcome Foreign Minister Zebari and Ambassador Faily from Iraq, and the rest of the Iraqi delegation who we just met with and will be coming in here for a meeting following our opening comments. We’ve just had a ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC May 31, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. It’s a tremendous pleasure for me to welcome Guido Westerwelle here to Washington and particularly to be able to thank him again for his wonderful welcome of me in Berlin on my first trip as Secretary of State. I remember it well. I had a great visit and I am very grateful to him, to Chancellor Merkel, to the governme...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Rosenbad Stockholm, Sweden May 14, 2013 This video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. PRIME MINISTER REINFELDT: Okay, warmly welcome. It’s a great pleasure for me to welcome Secretary of State John Kerry to Sweden and Stockholm only a few months after his appointment. It’s a sign of the excellent bilateral relations between Sweden and the United States. Links between our two countries go far back in history, and the King and Queen of Sweden ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Foreign Ministries Rome Rome, Italy May 9, 2013 This video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. Minister Bonino and Secretary of State Mr. Kerry have just completed their talk and they will now make some statements to the press. Thank you. FOREIGN MINISTER BONINO: Good morning. (Inaudible) I met in person, but it’s not the first time Secretary of State (inaudible) in his capacity. So you are muchly welcome and it...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State NATO Headquarters Brussels, Belgium April 23, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you very much. I apologize for the delay earlier. I’m really happy to be here in Brussels at NATO for my first ministerial as Secretary of State and I am very appreciative for Secretary General Rasmussen’s leadership. I thank him for hosting us here today. I think everybody understands the first tr...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Doha, Qatar March 5, 2013 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for this honor. SECRETARY KERRY: Delighted to be with you. Thank you. QUESTION: I know it’s early in your tenure, but I wonder if your experience to date, and particularly your exposure to me, has led you to the conclusion that this is the best job you’ve ever had. SECRETARY KERRY: (Laughter.) No answer needed. QUESTION: All right, very good. Let’s start with Syria. SECRETARY KERRY: Act...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Kabul, Afghanistan October 20, 2011 Please attribute the following content to an interview with BBC News. QUESTION: Madam Secretary, thank you very much for talking to the BBC. We’re in Afghanistan, but you’re about to travel to Pakistan with a very high-profile delegation of American officials – the head of the CIA, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – and you are going to push Pakistan very hard; these are your words. Tell ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State George Washington University Washington, DC October 5, 2009 MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the chairman of the George Washington University Board of Trustees, Russ Ramsey. (Applause.) MR. RAMSEY: Good evening, everyone. It is my honor and pleasure, on behalf of the entire Board of Trustees, to welcome all of you this evening. Tonight’s event highlights all that is right with our country: dynamic leaders; bright, engaged students; a...

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