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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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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 25, 2016 On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I am pleased to congratulate the people of Albania as you celebrate the 104th anniversary of your nation’s independence on November 28. The United States and Albania enjoy a long history of friendship and cooperation. Your country is a growing force for regional and global security, and the United States deeply appreciates your contributions to the Global Coalition t...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Tipperary, Ireland October 30, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER FLANAGAN: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Golden Vale of Tipperary on this beautiful autumn morning, and in particular I want to especially welcome Secretary of State John Kerry not only to Ireland but to the heart of Ireland to receive the highly acclaimed Tipperary International Peace Award. Today, the Secretary of State joins a long list of awardees which includes Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorb...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 MODERATOR: It is an honor to welcome a Secretary of State to the University of Chicago. It is part of the mission of the Institute of Politics to facilitate these kinds of opportunities for you to interact with practitioners and leaders, and so we’re really pleased on that account. But I – our other mission is somewhat larger than that, which is: We live in a somewhat dispirited time in our politics. I don’t know ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Palo Alto, California October 10, 2016 MS BOYD: So, Mr. Secretary, welcome to Silicon Valley and thank you for joining us today. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. Thank you. MS BOYD: I’m going to dive right in because we have a little bit less time than we planned. And I wanted to start with the big news from Friday. And since so much news broke on Friday, I should probably be a little more specific. (Laughter.) So on Friday, the Obama Administration official...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Edward M. Kennedy Center Dhaka, Bangladesh August 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Marcia, thank you very, very much. Join me, everybody, in expressing our gratitude – all of us – for the tremendous job that Ambassador Marcia Bernicat is doing here in Bangladesh. She has really been terrific. (Applause.) And I was about to say thank you to her outstanding team, because we all know it is a team effort. And I’m going to have a chance to be able t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC July 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry of Egypt. As we all know, Egypt has been undergoing extraordinary challenges in these last years with the popular uprising that took place a number of years ago in Tahrir Square now famous – Egypt opted for change. The problem is there are terrorists who do not want to allow that change to take place, people who are c...

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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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Luxembourg City, Luxembourg July 16, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER ASSELBORN: So, good afternoon. It’s a real pleasure for me to welcome here John Kerry. He is Secretary of State of the United States of America, who is very, very appreciated in the European Union. All my colleagues in the European Union, they know about his experience, his competence, and also his energy. Personally, I always had a good – a very good relation and I wa...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 11, 2016 On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I offer my warmest wishes to the people of Montenegro as you celebrate your National Day. This year’s holiday is particularly significant, as you mark the signing of the NATO Accession Protocol. This achievement, coming just ten years after regaining your independence, exemplifies the tremendous progress Montenegro has made towards fulfilling its Euro-Atlantic aspiration...

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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 Grand Hotel La Minerve Rome, Italy June 26, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, buongiorno . Good morning to everybody. I’m delighted to be here with Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, and we have a lot to talk about today besides Brexit, though I will address Brexit in a moment. But we need to talk about Libya, where we are working extremely closely together; Syria; and our preparations for the NATO Warsaw summit. So there’s a great deal on the table, including ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj Vienna, Austria May 16, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. For my part, let me just say that I’m very pleased to be able to be back in Vienna. I’m very grateful – we all are very grateful – to the Government of Austria for its continued hospitality and for hosting this latest round of talks. I’m very grateful as...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Dilgusha Palace Kabul, Afghanistan April 9, 2016 MODERATOR: (In progress) (Via interpreter) and after that we will only allow two questions. We’ll only be responding to two questions. So (inaudible) to his Excellency, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – your Excellency president. PRESIDENT GHANI: (Via interpreter) The entirely merciful, especially merciful, honorable John Kerry, Secretary of State, and respective delegation with you, most ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium March 25, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, what can you tell us about the Americans who were killed in the attacks here on Monday? SECRETARY KERRY: I can’t tell you very much at all because we’re going through the sad process of family notification at this point in time. And so I can just confirm that a couple of Americans have died in this event. QUESTION: The Belgian prime minister after the attack said that the el-Bakraoui brothers wh...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Advisor on Foreign Affairs Washington, DC February 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, welcome to the State Department. Welcome to the Ben Franklin Room. We’re delighted to have you all here for a very important dialogue in an important relationship. And Sartaj, thank you so much for coming here today to take part in the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, and I’m grateful for the level of expertise that is represented here. We expect to...

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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 Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 25, 2015 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Albania as you celebrate your 103rd Independence Day on November 28. Since President Woodrow Wilson’s support for Albanian independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, our two countries have worked together productively to forge an enduring friendship based on shared values and mutual respect. As a NATO member and mentor t...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 23, 2015 QUESTION: Secretary of State John Kerry is with us exclusively from Abu Dhabi. Mr. Secretary, good morning, and let me ask you about the security situation here in the United States. Administration officials have said there’s no specific credible threat. On the other hand, officials in Paris likely would have said the same thing the day before those attacks. How confident are you in assuring the American public that there isn...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission's Residence Paris, France November 17, 2015 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for taking the time. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be with you. QUESTION: President Vladimir Putin of Russia this morning said that it was a terrorist attack that took down this Russian jet over the Sinai Peninsula. They are vowing retribution. Has the U.S. come to the same conclusion? SECRETARY KERRY: We concur that there was an explosion that brought it down, but we haven...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission's Residence Paris, France November 17, 2015 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, we learned from Russia today that it was in fact a bomb that took down the Metrojet over Egypt a couple of weeks ago. ISIS claimed responsibility; ISIS apparently behind the Paris bombings. These are capabilities that no one apparently knew they had. How could the U.S. and the West’s expectations of ISIS be so wrong? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I disagree that people didn’...

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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 Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan November 2, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: (In Kazakh.) (Applause.) I’m working at it, folks. (Laughter.) Thank you very, very much, President Katsu. Thank you. As all of you know, President Katsu had a very long and very distinguished career at the World Bank, and I was not at all surprised to learn that he had been working very hard to create economic opportunities for the next generation now of Central Asian leaders. So he is...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France October 18, 2015 DIRECTOR-GENERAL BOKOVA : (In French.) As the fabric of human society seems increasingly under attack by forces that deny the existence of a shared heritage, forces that strike at the heart of our sense of community, I am convinced world heritage holds out a contrary and positive vision of human society and our human nature. So it is not just world heritage; UNESCO itself holds out a positive vision of human society against violent ext...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State Medium October 17, 2015 Earlier this week, I visited Indiana University, one of the finest public universities in America, to convey an important message about the United States of America, foreign policy, and about the difference that each of us can make in shaping a better world. Young people play a central role in advancing American interests, and creating an ever-stronger global community. So it was particularly important for me to talk to this group of young lead...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bloomington, Indiana October 15, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY:   Thank you very much.  I accept the nomination.  (Laughter.)  You have twice welcomed me by standing up, and I am deeply appreciative.  I will caution you all to remind you that Winston Churchill once said that the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear.  (Laughter.)  I know you had a much more noble concept in mi...

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Photos from the Trip» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to New York City in conjunction with the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly . While in New York, Secretary Kerry participated in a variety of meetings and side events highlighting U.S. leadership on multilateral issues. On the margins of the UN General Assembly, Secretary Kerry met with a number of his counterparts to discuss a range of bilateral and global issues. New york Remarks 10/02/15   Interview With Amaro Go...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC December 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: It’s my pleasure to welcome Foreign Minister Idrisov of Kazakhstan. You okay? Sorry. I’m really delighted to welcome the foreign minister here and I want to congratulate him and Kazakhstan on the near 23rd anniversary of their independence. It’s on December 16th. And we have enjoyed a growing security partnership, economic partnership, on any number of issues. We are working o...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amman, Jordan November 13, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER JUDEH: (Via interpreter) In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful. At the outset, I would like to welcome a friend of His Majesty King Abdullah to Jordan, as well as to me personally, he – His Excellency, the Secretary of State of the United States of America. I do welcome him in this important visit and at this particular important moment. We have been honored today...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Quai d'Orsay Paris, France November 5, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (In French.) SECRETARY KERRY: Merci . Thank you, Laurent. As Foreign Minister Fabius has just said to you, we had a broad discussion on all of the topics that he mentioned to you. We agree that we are living in very, very complicated times with enormous challenges, but we also believe that we are up to those challenges. And whether it is Ebola or ISIL, Syria, Iraq, the challenge of the nuclear prog...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Lester B. Pearson Building Ottawa, Canada October 28, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER BAIRD: (In French.) President Obama and Secretary Kerry were among the very first world leaders to show their solidarity after the attack here in Ottawa. And John, you are the first to make a journey to do so in person, and that is recognized and greatly appreciated by all Canadians. On behalf of the Government of Canada, as a member of parliament from Ottawa, I want to thank you for that. I...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Taj Hotel Boston, MA October 18, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I just want to say a couple things. First, my great pleasure to welcome the State Councilor of China Yang Jiechi to Boston. We have a great deal that we will be talking about and already began last night with a very informal and pleasant dinner. But there are many issues that China and the United States are cooperating on, even as we have some differences that we try to manage effectivel...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France October 14, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Thanks for your patience. This has been a very productive couple of days, and I’m glad to have an opportunity to be able to catch up on the discussions that we’ve had, both with Foreign Minister Fabius as well as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. First, I want to say a special thank you to my friend, Laurent Fabius, not only for hosting us but for the very important partnership ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 10, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Delighted to be here. QUESTION: Before we launch into our conversation about Afghanistan, I wanted to get your reaction to Malala Yousafzai’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. SECRETARY KERRY: I think it’s terrific, and shared, of course, with Kailash Satyarthi. I think the two of them together represent an incredibly appropriate statement about the impo...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York City, DC September 24, 2014 QUESTION: Chris, thank you, and we’d like to also welcome our viewers who are joining from around the world as we take this first opportunity to interview Secretary of State John Kerry at this amazing time in history right now. Welcome to the program. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. QUESTION: Welcome to CNN, Secretary Kerry. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I’m very happy to be here. Thank you. QUESTION: Can...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York City September 23, 2014 Thank you all very much for joining us here today. I’m delighted to be joined with my co-chair, Minister Cavusoglu of Turkey, and we’re very grateful for the strong turnout today and the importance of this discussion. This is the 5th ministerial meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum. And when we launched this effort just three years ago, we did so with a clear objective: to establish an inform...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Waldorf-Astoria New York City September 21, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: I want to say two words. First of all, it’s a great pleasure to welcome the foreign minister of France, Laurent Fabius. France has been as close a partner and important to our current challenges as any country in the world. We’re very grateful for the conference that was held in Paris a few days ago at which some 30 entities, countries and NGOs, came together to commit to deal with the pro...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC September 18, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Thank you very much. I’m sorry to keep you waiting. I apologize for running a little late. But it’s a great pleasure for me to be able to welcome the foreign minister of Algeria here to Washington. Foreign Minister Lamamra and I are getting to be old friends, if not a little older, and I’m enormously appreciative of the wonderful visit that I had to Algeria wher...

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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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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Cairo, Egypt September 13, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER SHOUKRY: (Via interpreter) Today we had discussions, (inaudible) long discussions during which the U.S. Secretary met President Abdelfattah al-Sisi, and this was an opportunity for them to discuss bilateral relations in details and openly. And they addressed several issues regionally and on the global (inaudible), the situation in Iraq or Syria or Libya, in addition to developments related to the cease-fire...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ankara, Turkey September 12, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you for being patient. I appreciate it very, very much. And good evening to all. I’m very pleased to be back here in Turkey, where I have had a series of productive meetings through the course of the day with President Erdogan and Prime Minister Davutoglu and my new counterpart, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu, who I’ve actually gotten to know pretty well in a frequency of meetings in the last wee...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ankara, Turkey September 12, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER CAVUSOGLU: (In Turkish.) Ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to have my dear friend and colleague in Ankara. This is third meeting, it’s going to the third meeting of us after Wales and Jeddah. And we have spoken on the phone several times again. And you know the issues that you can imagine on what issues we are going to focus during the meetings, particularly what’s going...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 11, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for your time today. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. QUESTION: I want to start off by talking about the President’s address last night. He didn’t seem to define what victory is. He talked about degrading and destroying ISIS, but what does the endgame look like? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, the endgame looks like an ISIS that no longer can threaten the United States of America, no longer t...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 11, 2014 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you so much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Pleased to be with you. QUESTION: Is the United States at war with ISIS? It sure sounds from the President’s speech that we are. SECRETARY KERRY: I think that’s the wrong terminology. What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation, and it’s going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants t...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 11, 2014 QUESTION: We’ve seen the Free Syrian Army is not up to fighting ISIS, and U.S. airstrikes require, at the very least, special forces on the ground. What makes you think we can degrade and destroy ISIS? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I think there are a lot of reasons why, and I’m not going to lay them all out so that they have a chance to take actions to address those deficiencies. But the fact is that I think we have an...

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Regions: Afghanistan, Iran , Iraq , Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Global Health

Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 11, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for making time. There are many countries in this coalition that you’re building against ISIS who are basically weak links. The U.S. has said they’re allowing funding; they’re allowing fighters to flow into Syria and Iraq. How do you trust them to do what’s needed? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, that’s going to tighten up, and it has to tighten up, and we’re goin...

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Regions: Afghanistan, Iran , Kuwait , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Energy

Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Admiralty House Sydney, Australia August 12, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER BISHOP: Ladies and gentlemen, today we have welcomed to Sydney and to AUSMIN Secretaries John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, and this is the second AUSMIN meeting that the four principals here have participated in. The United States alliance is the most important security relationship for Australia, and AUSMIN is an annual opportunity for us to take stock of this relationship. And today’s discussion wa...

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Regions: Afghanistan, Australia , Canada , China, Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Japan , Korea, North , Malaysia , Russia , Syria , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Naypyitaw, Burma August 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Good morning. I’m delighted to meet this morning with two of our strongest allies in the region here. We have a great deal to talk about with respect to the D.P.R.K. and security issues in the region, but we also always talk between us about the global initiatives that we’re all involved in, particularly the problems of nuclear proliferation, of counterterrorism. We’re all shari...

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Regions: Burma , Korea, North

Topics: Countering Terrorism

Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Erbil, Iraq June 24, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for speaking to the BBC. I wanted to start by asking you: Why are we in Erbil? You were in the Iraqi capital yesterday. Do you consider this a separate entity? Is this the new Iraqi reality that Mr. Massoud Barzani is talking about? SECRETARY KERRY: No, not at all. But the Kurd participation in the governing formation process is very, very important. The Kurds have been very key to helping to d...

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Regions: Egypt , Iraq , Syria , United States

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy

Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Erbil, Iraq June 24, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, both you and the President have said that a safe haven for ISIS is a national security threat for the United States. But that safe haven already exists, and it’s in Syria. Now it’s in Iraq. So how do you actually reverse those gains? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, first of all, it’s not a safe haven at this point in time. QUESTION: Syria’s not? SECRETARY KERRY: I would say it’s not particular...

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Regions: Iraq , Syria , United States

Topics: Countering Terrorism