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  • Secretary Clinton: Travel to Zurich, London, Dublin, Belfast, Moscow, and Kazan

    October 9, 2009 to October 15, 2009 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Travel Diary Blog | Text the Secretary | Photos Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Zurich , London , Dublin , Belfast , Moscow and Kazan from October 9 to 15, 2009. In Zurich, Secretary Clinton attended the signing of two protocols between the governments of Turkey and Armenia. In London and Dublin, the Secretary engaged in a series of discussions on a wide range of bilateral, transatlantic...

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    Regions: Ireland , Turkey , United Kingdom

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism

  • Exit Memo From Secretary Kerry to President Obama

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, Antarctica, Argentina, Canada , Chad , Chile, China, Cuba , France , India , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Italy , Korea, North , Libya , Nigeria , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , Thailand , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Western Hemisphere, Yemen

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, Canada , China, Iran , Israel , Japan , Korea, North , Nigeria , Russia , Rwanda , Saudi Arabia , Somalia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States , Vietnam

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Remarks With Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se at a Press Availability

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC October 19, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. I want to start by welcoming my friend, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, back to Washington. He is here with Korean Defense Minister Han for the fourth U.S.-R.O.K. 2+2 discussion, as we call it. And this afternoon, joined by Defense Secretary Carter, we had a very productive discussion about our alliance and about the various possibilities that we face in terms of increa...

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    Regions: China, Iran , Japan , Korea, North , Korea, South , Russia , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Wilson Center Washington, DC September 28, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Jane, thank you for a wonderful introduction. I hugely appreciate your support, your counsel. And obviously, we are living in complicated times. I want to thank you for many, many years of remarkable service to our country. Jane was reminding me as we were walking up here that we were by happenstance on a flight together not so many years ago, and she secretly informed me of the offer from the Wilson C...

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    Regions: Australia , Canada , Chile, China, France , Germany , Israel , Italy , Japan , Korea, North , Korea, South , Philippines , United Kingdom , United States , Vietnam

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Remarks at United Nations Security Council Meeting on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 23, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. President, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for convening this meeting. To all my colleagues, friends, ladies and gentlemen, 20 years ago President Bill Clinton entered the General Assembly with a pen in hand, the pen that he had used to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty, the same pen used by President John F. Kennedy decades earlier to bring the Limited Test Ban...

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    Regions: Iran , Korea, North , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Marriott New York East Side New York City, NY September 18, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER KISHIDA: (Via interpreter) (In progress.) -- face the threat from North Korea totally different in dimension from the past regarding provocations, including the recent nuclear test (inaudible) development of nuclear and missile capabilities. The international society is required to initiate a different response accordingly. U.S., ROK, and Japan must be in the driver seat to lead the in...

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    Regions: Japan , Korea, North , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Human Rights and Democracy, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura at a Press Availability

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland September 9, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: So thank you all for tremendous patience during the course of a very long day which obviously has required a lot of detail work, and we appreciate everybody’s patience in hanging in there. Today, the United States and Russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume movement towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in Syria. And we believe that the pl...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Energy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Joint Press Availability With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Osobnyak Moscow, Russia July 15, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) (In progress) -- met President Aliyev and President Sargsyan. Recently upon the instruction of my president I visited Yerevan and Baku, and today we exchanged views as to the ways to use the momentum in order to reach an agreement with respect to practical steps and agreed upon the agreements that will be acceptable for all the sides and that would help us attain the goal of bringing pe...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Armenia , Azerbaijan , Belgium , China, France , Iran , Libya , Russia , Syria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Video Remarks: James Timbie Forum on Arms Control and Nonproliferation

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 14, 2016 (As Delivered) SECRETARY KERRY: Hello and welcome, everybody. I’m very sorry that I couldn’t be with you in person today, but I’m super pleased to have a chance nonetheless to just share a few thoughts with you. I know that when you read the headlines or browse through posts on Facebook or Twitter and reflect on the many different threats that we’re facing in the world today, it can be difficult to imagine that ou...

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    Regions: Iran , Korea, North , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • On the United Kingdom - European Union Referendum

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC June 24, 2016 Earlier today, I spoke to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond regarding yesterday's referendum in the United Kingdom. The citizens of the U.K. have made their decision and we will of course respect it. I want to emphasize that although the U.K. will be leaving the European Union, the British are in no way departing from the principles and values that undergird the Transatlantic Partnership or from the important role the ...

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    Regions: United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy

  • U.S.-China Press Statements

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi Great Hall of the People Beijing, China June 7, 2016 MODERATOR: Distinguished guests, friends from the media, good afternoon. Welcome to the closing ceremony and press conference of the eighth S&ED. Today we have the pleasure of having with us the four special representatives. First let us invite special representative of President Xi, Vice Premier Wan...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Korea, North , Philippines , Sudan , Syria , Taiwan , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • S&ED Opening Session Remarks

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Beijing, China June 6, 2016 PRESIDENT XI: (Via interpreter) Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen (inaudible), today, the eighth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and the seventh ...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Korea, North , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • John Kerry: Travel to Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Japan, April 6-10, 2016

    Photos from the Trip» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Manama, Bahrain, Baghdad, Iraq, Kabul, Afghanistan and Hiroshima, Japan. From April 6-8, the Secretary held bilateral meetings with senior Bahraini officials and participated in a ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, where he discussed a wide range of regional issues.  Secretary Kerry visited Baghdad, Iraq, on April 8 to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Counc...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Pakistan , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, Canada , China, India , Pakistan , Russia , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

    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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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Press Availability With Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, China January 27, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, good afternoon. The foreign ministers of China and the United States have just had an in-depth and substantive discussion, and now, they are ready to meet the press. Now, Foreign Minister Wang will first make a statement. FOREIGN MINISTER WANG: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, we’re sorry to have kept you waiting, and even if you...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, France , Iran , Korea, North , Taiwan , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Remarks before the Daily Press Briefing

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, China, Iran , Korea, North , Mexico , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Kazakhstan's Independence Day

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 15, 2015 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Kazakhstan as you celebrate the 24 th anniversary of your independence on December 16. The United States was the first country to recognize Kazakhstan after it declared independence in 1991, and since that day our friendship has only grown stronger. Nearly a quarter of a century later, we remain committed to a secure, sovereign, and...

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    Regions: Kazakhstan , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation

  • Brookings Institution's 2015 Saban Forum Keynote Address

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Willard Hotel Washington, DC December 5, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you all very, very much. Thank you, Bruce, for a very generous introduction. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen; I apologize that we are starting a few moments late. I’m delighted to be here, distinguished members of Congress. Steny and Nita I know are here, and Jolie Ruben, my former colleague and longtime friend, and I think Bogie Ya’alon is out there somewhere. And Bogie, good to se...

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    Regions: China, France , Germany , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Libya , Russia , Syria , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Yemen

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • On the Passing of Sandy Berger

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 2, 2015 Teresa and I want to express our profound sadness at the passing of Samuel “Sandy” Berger, former National Security Adviser to President Clinton and – during the Carter Administration -- deputy director of Policy Planning at the State Department. For more than four decades, in both the public and private sectors, Sandy occupied a central position in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy. H...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy

  • Final Presidential Election Results in Argentina

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 23, 2015 I congratulate the people of Argentina on holding successful second-round Presidential elections on November 22 , which reflects Argentina’s strong democratic values. The United States and Argentina are long-standing partners, and we look forward to working closely with President-designate Mauricio Macri and his government. We are confident that the United States and Argentina will continue to work closely to promote re...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Remarks With Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev Before Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ak Orda Presidential Palace Astana, Kazakhstan November 2, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you, Mr. President. I’m very pleased to be in Kazakhstan again. I appreciated the meeting that we had with President Obama in New York. We discussed a lot of the issues between us, and I know that President Obama is very appreciative for your leadership on the nonproliferation issue, on countering violent extremism, cooperation vis-a-vis Afghanistan and counter-Daesh. ...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation

  • Remarks at the Department of Energy's Stockpile Stewardship Event

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Navy Heritage Center Washington, DC October 21, 2015 Thank you very much for that. Ernie, thank you. Thank you for your warm introduction, but thank you most importantly for celebrating these 20 years and for your tremendous engagement. We sort of drafted Ernie late as we got into the really technical portions of the negotiation. And he – it proved to be one of the best draft choices we’ve ever made. (Laughter.) He performed extraordinarily, and the...

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  • Remarks With Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrissov Before Their Meeting

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, Iran , Kazakhstan , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy

  • Press Availability in Beijing, China

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State China National Convention Center Beijing, China November 8, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to begin by thanking our Chinese hosts for their very, very warm welcome and for the depth and breadth of the discussions that we’ve been able to have at APEC this year. This is my ninth trip to Asia and the Asia Pacific in the 21 months since I have served as Secretary of State. And I have returned again and again to this region for o...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health

  • Remarks at a Solo Press Availability

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, France , Iran , Italy , Russia , Syria , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Energy, Global Health

  • Interview With Masood Farivar of Voice of America

    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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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Iraq , Korea, North , Russia , Syria , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States

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  • The People's Republic of China National Day

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 1, 2014 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I would like to extend our best wishes and congratulations to the people of The People’s Republic of China as you celebrate your 65th National Day on October 1. This year also marks the 35th anniversary of U.S-China diplomatic relations. These past 35 years have seen our cooperation expand in remarkable ways. Our continued efforts to confront some of the wo...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Global Health

  • Remarks at the U.S. Diplomacy Center Groundbreaking Ceremony

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Hillary Clinton George Marshall Conference Center Washington, DC September 3, 2014 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new United States Diplomacy Center. We are celebrating the start of construction of the center, a state-of-the-art museum and educational resource that wil...

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    Regions: Burma , China, Estonia , France , Iran , Ireland , Jordan , Korea, North , Pakistan , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United States , Vietnam

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, and Australian Minister of Defense David Johnston

    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

  • Press Availability on the Attended Ministerial Meetings

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Lake Garden Hotel Naypyitaw, Burma August 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank President Thein Sein for his government’s warm welcome here during the course of this conference, for his leadership as chair of ASEAN, and for serving as the United States-ASEAN country coordinator. Burma has made a significant amount of progress over the course of the last years, and when I was last here in 1999, I visited with Aung San S...

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    Regions: Burma , China, Korea, North , Malaysia , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Remarks at the East Asia Summit Ministerial Intervention

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Naypyitaw, Burma August 10, 2014 Mr. Chairman, His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, Fellow Ministers and Secretaries, As we approach the 10th anniversary of the East Asia Summit next year, this is a natural time to take stock of the direction of the EAS and our efforts to strengthen this critical institution. We support the discussions over the structure and mission of the EAS occurring right now and the mandate for senior officials to bring back their recomme...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj After Their Meeting

    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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  • Press Availability in Beijing, China

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Beijing, China July 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being patient. We’re delighted to be here. Let me begin by thanking our Chinese hosts for their very warm welcome and for the depth and breadth of the discussions that we had in this year’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue. During our meetings with President Xi and Prime Minister Li, Secretary Lew and I discussed a number of importan...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Israel , Korea, North , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Iranian Nuclear Deal Still Is Possible, But Time Is Running Out

    Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State Washington Post June 30, 2014 July 20, the deadline to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, is fast approaching. All along, these negotiations have been about a choice for Iran’s leaders. They can agree to the steps necessary to assure the world that their country’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful and not be used to build a weapon, or they can squander a historic opportunity to end Iran’s economic and dipl...

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    Regions: Iran , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Energy

  • Interview With George Stephanopoulos of ABC's This Week

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland November 24, 2013 QUESTION: Thank you for joining us, Mr. Secretary. The big question right now: Will this agreement really stop the Iranian nuclear program in its tracks? We’ve already got some critics in Congress suggesting it won’t. Marco Rubio says it will not freeze the Iranian nuclear program, makes a nuclear Iran more not less likely. Lindsey Graham says unless the deal requires dismantling centrifuges, we haven’t gained ...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks at the Ploughshares Fund Gala

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Institute of Peace Washington, DC October 28, 2013 Well, good evening, everybody. And Michael, thank you so much for a very, very generous introduction. I think everybody here wants to join me in thanking you for your remarkable efforts through all the years. You said a moment ago that you’ve been doing this for 40 years. You’ve really not only been involved in these humanitarian causes for a long time and the effort to make our world safer, but I t...

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    Regions: China, Iran , Korea, North , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Energy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov After Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Intercontinental Hotel Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you very much for your patience, not just this morning, but over the last couple of days. We’re very appreciative and particularly grateful to Sergey Lavrov, who stayed extra time from what he had originally planned, hoping we’d finish sooner, and this gave us additional opportunity to be able to work through some of the issue...

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    Regions: France , Iran , Korea, North , Russia , Switzerland , Syria , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Combating Drugs and Crime, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Intercontinental Hotel Geneva, Switzerland September 12, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) (In progress) – delegations that accompany us. Of course, we would like you to have unbiased ideas about what we are going to do. But I think that you understand well before we start to tell you what we are going to do, we should get down to a very serious work, the work which is dedicated to a ...

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    Regions: Russia , Switzerland , Syria , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Remarks With Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius Following Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vilnius, Lithuania September 7, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER LINKEVICIUS: We really appreciate very much (inaudible) partnership with United States, and recently to Vilnius (inaudible), and now visit of Secretary to Vilnius, it’s really proved that we (inaudible) on very good foundation and we will continue. We share the same values and democratic principles, and we have the same issues. So we try to do our parts in the agenda (inaudible) ...

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  • Interview With George Stephanopoulos of ABC This Week

    Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC September 1, 2013 QUESTION: Thank you for joining us, Mr. Secretary. And I’m just wondering, did you have any inkling when you gave that forceful speech Friday afternoon that the President was about to hit the pause button a military strike? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, the President hadn’t made any decision on a military strike, George. I was asked to make the case for why we needed to take action, but the President always maintai...

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  • Remarks With Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota After Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Itamaraty Palace Brasilia, Brazil August 13, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions. FOREIGN MINISTER PATRIOTA: (Via interpreter) I was mentioning that he has a good knowledge of Portuguese in function of Mrs. Teresa Kerry. She’s also Portuguese. But I would like to say that we had a meeting, a working meeting, this morning in this, which is the first visit of Secretary of State John Kerry to Brazil, to South America actually. He had a st...

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  • John Kerry: Details of Travel to the Middle East and Asia, June 21-July 2, 2013

    Loading Map... Photos From the Trip» DipNote: U.S. and India: World’s Oldest and Largest Democracies Share Historical Ties» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Doha, New Delhi, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Amman, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, and Bandar Seri Begawan from June 21 to July 2. On June 22-23 in Doha, the Secretary met with senior Qatari officials to discuss bilateral and regional issues. The Secretary also participated in a meeting with the "London 11" foreign...

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  • Intervention at East Asia Summit

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei July 2, 2013 As Prepared for Delivery I am very pleased to represent, for the first time as Secretary of State, the United States at this East Asia Summit Ministerial. Allow me to express my appreciation to His Majesty, the Sultan, and the entire nation of Brunei for their warm hospitality. President Obama looks forward to traveling here in October to attend the EAS Leaders Summit. The Asia-Pacific region is enjoying an almost unparallele...

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  • Press Availability in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Brunei July 1, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. Let me first thank His Majesty, the Sultan, and the people of Brunei for hosting us all here at this forum. It’s wonderful to be back for my second visit to the region as Secretary of State. And as I said in April in Tokyo, President Obama has made, I think, a very smart and strategic decision to rebalance our in...

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  • Remarks at the U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Myanmar Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei July 1, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube FOREIGN MINISTER WUNNA MAUNG LWIN: Your Royal Highness, Mr. Co-chair, excellencies, a very good morning. With the permission of Mr. Co-chair, I wish to announce that the ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial Meeting commenced. At the outset, I wish to exchange on behalf of my ASEAN colleagues, our warmest welcome to Secretary of State John K...

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  • Remarks With Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State New Delhi, India June 24, 2013 Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube MODERATOR: Good afternoon, friends. I welcome you to this media interaction. As is usual, we will first have opening remarks followed by a few questions that the two leaders have agreed to respond to. May I now request the External Affairs Minister of India, Mr. Salman Khurshid, to make his opening remarks. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER KHURSHID: Mr. John Kerry, Secretary of State, Secre...

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  • National Day of Russian Federation

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC June 12, 2013 I am delighted to offer my congratulations to the people of Russia as you celebrate your National Day this June 12th. I was in Moscow earlier this year for my first visit as Secretary of State, and my trip coincided with celebrations of Victory Day, a reminder of the pivotal role your country has played at times of great challenge in the world. As I stood and placed a wreath at your Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, I was reminded of ...

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  • Press Availability After NATO Ministerial

    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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  • Meeting With Staff and Families of Tri-Mission Brussels

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ambassador Gutman's Residence Brussels, Belgium April 22, 2013 AMBASSADOR GUTMAN: Good afternoon. Michelle and I would like to welcome you to our home, which is America’s home here in Brussels. Today, it’s another huge thrill. First of all, it’s always a special day when I join Ambassadors Kennard and Daalder. I will skip the usual joke about the smart one, the wise one, and the good-looking one. (Laughter.) Besides, both Ambassadors Daalder and Ke...

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  • Remarks on a 21st Century Pacific Partnership

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan April 15, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very, very much. Thank you very much, President Mishima, for a generous introduction. It's a great privilege for me to be here. Thank you. And thank you all for coming to share some thoughts this morning. I understand that Tokyo Tech has been referred to as Japan’s M.I.T. So even halfway around the world from Boston, I feel very much at home, and thank you. (Applause.) I h...

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  • Joint Press Availability With Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida After Their Meeting

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Iikura Guest House Tokyo, Japan April 14, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to start the U.S.-Japan joint press conference. First we’d like to call upon Minister Kishida, followed by Secretary Kerry please. Minister Kishida, please. FOREIGN MINISTER KISHIDA: (Via interpreter) Allow me to begin. I’d like to welcome His Excellency Secretary Kerr...

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  • Remarks With Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi at the Top of Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Beijing, China April 13, 2013 STATE COUNCILOR YANG: (In progress) (Via interpreter) China-U.S. relations enter a new stage. Both China and the United States are now confronted with a complex and volatile international situation, and both have important development tasks at home. It is thus all the more necessary for our two sides to enhance dialogue, increase trust, expand cooperation, manage differences, and ensure that our bilateral rela...

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  • Video Remarks: Inside the State Department

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC March 8, 2013 Voiceover: Secretary of State John Kerry’s first international trip since taking office continued with stops in Ankara, Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Doha. The 11-day, 9-nation trip has covered a wide variety of global and bilateral issues and underscored the support of members of the international community on the crisis in Syria. Secretary Kerry: The International Community is not going to stand for SCUDs being fired indiscrimina...

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  • Remarks With Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal After Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Victoria Nuland    Department Spokesperson , Office of the Spokesperson Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 4, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER SAUD: (In Arabic.) SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much, Your Royal Highness. Assalamu alaikum . I am very honored to be here and very, very grateful for His Royal Highness, Prince Saud Al-Faisal’s very generous welcome here. We had a sup...

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  • Remarks With French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Foreign Ministry Paris, France February 27, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (In French - Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. Thank you for being here. Together with John Kerry, we will be saying a few words, and then if you so wish we are available for the press’s questions. It gives me great pleasure to host Secretary of State John Kerry on the occasion of his first visit to Europe. It is an honor as well as a pleasure to have among...

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  • Remarks With Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida Before Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 22, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my great pleasure to welcome the Foreign Minister of Japan, His Excellency Fumio Kishida. We’ve just come from an excellent meeting of the President and the Prime Minister of Japan, and I think it’s fair to say that almost every topic with respect to Japanese-American relations was discussed....

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  • Remarks With Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh After Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 13, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. Is it morning still? FOREIGN MINISTER JUDEH: It is almost -- SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It’s a huge pleasure for me to welcome Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh to the State Department, to the United States. And I also spoke with His Majesty King Abdullah earlier this morning about some of the issues...

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  • Remarks on American Leadership at the Council on Foreign Relations

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 31, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY CLINTON:  Thank you, Richard, for that introduction and for everything you’ve done to lead this very valuable institution. I also want to thank the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and all my friends and colleagues and other interested citizens who are here today, because you respect the Council, you understand the important work that ...

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  • The Death of Ambassador Max M. Kampelman

    Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 On behalf of the men and women of the Department of State, I wish to express our sadness at the passing of Max Kampelman, whose contributions to American diplomacy remain a force for freedom and peace in our world. As our premier Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (or Helsinki process) during the Cold War and its aftermath, and as Counselor of State and Chief Negotiator to the Nuc...

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  • Remarks Introducing Nominee for Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry at His Senate Foreign Relations Committee Confirmation Hearing

    Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Hart Office Building Washington, DC January 24, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s very good to be back and to have this opportunity to join with Senator Warren and Senator McCain in introducing President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of State. I was very honored when John asked me to take part in this because John is the right choice to carry forward the Obama Administrat...

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  • Statement on the President's Nomination of Senator John F. Kerry to Succeed Her as Secretary of State of the United States

    Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC December 21, 2012 Today, I spoke to Senator John Kerry and congratulated him on his nomination to be the next Secretary of State. I also spoke with President Obama and told him that he has made an excellent choice. I hope Senator Kerry will be confirmed quickly. I have been privileged to know John for many years and to call him a friend, colleague, and partner. He will bring decades of service to our country and deep experience in ...

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  • Meeting With Staff and Families of the U.S. Embassy in Prague

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Prague, Czech Republic December 3, 2012 Oh, thank you all. It is wonderful to be back in Prague, one of my favorite cities, and to have a chance to not only say thank you to each and every one of you for the work you do every single day, but also Happy Holidays, so it’s an especially appropriate time. As you may recall, I was here with my husband about a year ago this time of year for President Havel’s memorial service, and it’s wonderf...

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  • Remarks With Czech Republic Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Czernin Palace Prague, Czech Republic December 3, 2012  Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube on Secretary Clinton's comments on Syria  and closed captioning on YouTube on comments on U.S.-Czech Nuclear Cooperation MODERATOR: (In Czech.) FOREIGN MINISTER SCHWARZENBERG: (In Czech.) SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, my friend. It is such a pleasure to be back in one of the most beautiful cities in the world and to meet with one of ...

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  • Video Remarks on Westinghouse

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Reuters Soundbite Prague, Czech Republic December 3, 2012 Energy security and energy diversification are top issues for our foreign policies around the world.  This is not just about Europe and it is certainly not just about the Czech Republic. When it comes to civil-nuclear energy, the Czech Republic leads Central Europe both in terms of your commitment to nuclear safety and security here at home and your support for nonproliferation in the interna...

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  • Secretary Clinton Hosts the Swearing-in Ceremony for Joe Macmanus, U.S Representative to the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna and the International Atomic Energy Agency

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton    Secretary of State Capricia Penavic Marshall    Chief of Protocol Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC November 9, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, this is a day we have tried to avoid, and successfully, for quite some time. (Laughter.) But now, unfortunately the day has arrived. So I’m putting on my game face, Joe, looking like I’m happy. (Laughter.) Because today we are honori...

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  • Ukraine's Troubling Trends

    Op-Ed Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy The New York Times October 24, 2012 IT has been 21 years since Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union. Since then, Ukrainians have made much progress on reforming and modernizing their country. Ukraine has also become an important partner on a number of pressing global and regional issues, from nuclear nonproliferation to food security and the...

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  • Remarks With Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov After Their Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC October 3, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. I am delighted to welcome a very well known figure here to the State Department and to have this opportunity to greet him as Foreign Minister. But before I turn to the issues that bring us together today, let me say a few words about a subject that I know is on many people’s minds. There are continui...

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  • Remarks at the Forum on Small States Opening Session

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations New York City October 1, 2012  The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube .   SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Foreign Minister, and thanks also to the Secretary General and the UN General Assembly President for their remarks and for their leadership. I’m delighted to have been invited by Singapore to join you at the Forum of Small States to mark the 20 th anniversary of its founding. I think orga...

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  • Remarks at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York City September 27, 2012 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon everyone, and thank you so much for joining us here. It’s a pleasure to welcome all of you to New York, and I want to offer a special greeting to my co-chair. Thank you so much, Foreign Minister. Not very long ago, it would have been impossible to imagine we would be sitting here together working so...

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  • Remarks at the Third Annual U.S.-Indonesian Joint Commission Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Indonesian Foreign Minister Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa Washington, DC September 20, 2012 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everyone, good morning. My goodness, we have quite a wonderful turnout, and we are so grateful to our friends and colleagues from Indonesia for being part of this ongoing and very important effort. Ambassador, very good to see you, and the Minister and I just had an opportunity to cover a few issues, because we have so much work...

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  • Indonesia Ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

    Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC December 6, 2011 The United States welcomes Indonesia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). We thank President Yudhoyono and the Government of Indonesia for their leadership in this global effort to reinforce the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Ratification by Indonesia – one of the countries whose ratification is required for the Treaty’s entry into force – reinforces the inte...

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  • Remarks at the OSCE First Plenary Session

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State LitExpo Conference Center Vilnius, Lithuania December 6, 2011 Thank you and the president of the Republic of Lithuania and the government and people of your country for hosting this year’s for hosting this year’s OSCE Ministerial and for your steadfast global leadership in support and defense of human dignity and democracy. I appreciated your reference to the continuing importance of human rights – not simply as a moral imperative, but ...

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  • Press Availability in Nay Pyi Taw, Burma

    Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Nay Pyi Taw, Burma December 1, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, and – mingalaba , is that how you say it? Yeah? How? QUESTION: Mingalaba . SECRETARY CLINTON: Mingalaba . Thank you. Let me start by saying that I want to emphasize that while I may be the first United States Secretary of State to visit in over a half century, our two nations are far from strangers. We’ve had a long history together, from the earliest American m...

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  • Press Availability in Busan, South Korea

    Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Busan Exhibition and Convention Center Busan, South Korea November 30, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to be back in the Republic of Korea. Before I begin, I want to say a brief word about yesterday’s events at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The United States condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms. It is an affront, not only to the British people but also to the international commu...

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  • America's Pacific Century

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State East-West Center Honolulu, HI November 10, 2011 DR. MORRISON: Aloha. AUDIENCE: Aloha. DR. MORRISON: How do you introduce the Secretary of State? And I think the first thing I think of as a public servant, we sometimes hear the word public servant spoken in a kind of derogatory tone. But the public servants that I’ve known, the members of our state and local government, members of our Congress, members of the international community, with a lot of v...

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  • Interview With Savannah Guthrie of NBC's Today Show

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 12, 2011 QUESTION: Madam Secretary, thank you so much for doing this. SECRETARY CLINTON: It is a pleasure, Savannah, and welcome to the State Department. QUESTION: Thank you. Let’s talk about the news of the day, this plot by some members of the Quds Force to take out the Saudi ambassador at a restaurant here in Washington. I guess the question today is: How high does this go? Do we know that the top levels of the Iranian G...

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  • Interview With Reuters

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 11, 2011 QUESTION: Thanks very much for doing this. SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m happy to do it – glad this worked out. QUESTION: We should have tea more often. (Laughter.) SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right. Exactly. Well, when I invited you, I wanted to talk about these two speeches that I’m giving this week. And obviously, there are a lot of other things going on in the world. But just so that I fulfill my oblig...

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  • Remarks at Town Hall Meeting on the Release of the First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, "Leading Through Civilian Power"

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton    Secretary of State Anne-Marie Slaughter    Director Patrick F. Kennedy    Under Secretary for Management  Rajiv Shah    USAID Administrator Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC December 15, 2010 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Good morning, everyone. Before beginning this Secretary of State town hall meeting on the QDDR, I would like to ask all of you to rise for a moment in a moment of silence and memory of Ambassador R...

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  • Manama Dialogue Opening Dinner

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ritz Carlton Hotel Manama, Bahrain December 3, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good evening, Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Highnesses, ministers, ambassadors, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great pleasure for me to join you this year for the seventh annual Manama Dialogue. And I want to congratulate the International Institute for Strategic Studies for the vision of this Dialogue and for convening what I am sure will be another thought-provoking c...

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  • Remarks With Belarussian Foreign Minister Sergey Martynov Before Their Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Palace of Independence Astana, Kazakhstan December 1, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: (In progress.) I did. I did. I really enjoyed it so much. FOREIGN MINISTER MARTYNOV: Well, it’s really a national pride in the (inaudible). SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I can see why. I can understand that. And while the press is here, I want to publicly thank Belarus for the decision that has been made to eliminate the remaining stock of highly enriched uranium. This is a ve...

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  • Remarks With Kazakh Foreign Minister Saudabayev After Their Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Palace of Independence Astana, Kazakhstan December 1, 2010 MODERATOR: (Via translator) Welcome to (inaudible) Chairman of the OSCE, State Secretary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Saudabayev and U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. FOREIGN MINISTER SAUDABAYEV: (Via translator) (Inaudible), first of all, to thank you for your great interest in the work of this Astana summit, and wish you fruitful work in the capital of Kazakhstan. A mee...

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  • Town Hall on Empowering Civil Society for Central Asia's Future

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Eurasian University Astana, Kazakhstan November 30, 2010 AMBASSADOR ZHARBUSSYNOVA: Ladies and gentlemen, today I am truly honored to welcome the Secretary of State Madam Hillary Clinton. Madam, all of us present here today are grateful that despite the challenging schedule and the long flight, you were willing to have this meeting with representative of the civil society and other organizations and students of the university. Now that Astana air is fille...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Iran , Kazakhstan , Korea, North , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , South Africa , Turkmenistan , United Kingdom , United States , Uzbekistan , Vietnam

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  • Remarks on the New START Treaty

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Senator John Kerry, and Senator Richard Lugar U.S. Capitol Washington, DC November 17, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hi, everybody. Nice to be back in familiar surroundings. Let me start by thanking the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for hosting a breakfast this morning with leadership from both the House and the Senate on some of the most critical national security issues facing our country. And in particular, I want to ...

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  • Remarks with Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger After Their Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC November 16, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: I am delighted to welcome my colleague, the foreign minister of Austria, here to the State Department – he just told me – for the first time. And I am especially pleased that we’ve had this opportunity to reaffirm the bonds of friendship between our two countries, and I’ve already had an excellent working relationship with him. U.S.-Austria relations are strong. They&...

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  • Remarks With Foreign Minister Kevin Michael Rudd

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Grand Hyatt Melbourne, Australia November 6, 2010 FOREIGN MINISTER RUDD: Well, good afternoon and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, on behalf of the Australian Government, can I say how welcome Secretary of State Clinton is to Australia? You are not only well known in our country, Hillary, I believe you're well loved in our country. And it's good to have you here, good to have you here in Melbourne, which is one of our finest citi...

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  • Interview With Guyon Espiner of TV New Zealand

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Christchurch, New Zealand November 5, 2010 QUESTION: Well, Secretary Clinton, thank you very much for making time for us. We really appreciate that. The headline that you created in one New Zealand newspaper was “Clinton Crushes 25 Years of Ice.” SECRETARY CLINTON: (Laughter.) QUESTION: Do you feel that that is what happened yesterday? SECRETARY CLINTON: I think we’ve always had a very close relationship on so many issues, and it was ...

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  • Remarks at Christchurch Town Hall Meeting with Students and Civic Leaders

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Christchurch, New Zealand November 5, 2010 MODERATOR: Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Therese Arsenau. I’m from the University of Canterbury. And I have to say I have a very easy job this afternoon. I’m introducing a woman who needs absolutely no introduction. It’s fair to say that Mrs. Clinton has been at the very heart of American political power and a political heavyweight for two decades, and she’s now brought these incredible...

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  • Remarks With New Zealand Prime Minister John Phillip Key and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray Stuart McCully

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Parliament Theatrette Wellington, New Zealand November 4, 2010 PRIME MINISTER KEY: Okay. So firstly, can I start by saying I’m delighted to welcome you, Secretary Clinton, and your team to New Zealand. We’re very pleased you’ve taken the time in your extensive travel schedule to come to Wellington. The people of both Canterbury and New Zealand will deeply appreciate your display of solidarity in visiting Christchurch tomorrow, and we th...

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  • Secretary Clinton: Travel to Moscow, March 18-19, 2010

    March 17, 2010 to March 19, 2010 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Text the Secretary | Photos On March 18-19, Secretary Clinton, accompanied by Senator Mitchell, participated in a meeting of the Quartet with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton, as well as Quartet Representative Tony Blair, to discuss efforts to promote Middle East peace. The Secretary also met with senior ...

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  • Remarks on the Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Georgetown University's Gaston Hall Washington, DC December 14, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. It is wonderful being back here at Georgetown in this magnificent Gaston Hall, and to give you something to do during exam week. (Laughter.) It’s one of those quasi-legitimate reasons for taking a break – (laughter) – which I’m very happy to have provided. I want to thank Jas for his introductory remarks, and clearly, those of you wh...

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  • Remarks With Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko After Their Meeting

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC December 9, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. I’m delighted to welcome Minister Poroshenko here for in-depth conversations. It’s an opportunity for me to reaffirm the very broad partnership between our two nations. Earlier today, we had the first meeting of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission, and we look forward to continuing to work on these many important matters. Before I turn to th...

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  • Remarks at Luncheon for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC November 24, 2009 Please be seated, and welcome to the State Department, to the ceremonial receiving rooms of the 8 th floor. And it is a personal delight, as well as a high honor, to have so many of you gathered here, such a distinguished group, for this special occasion.   Prime Minister, Mrs. Kaur, we are so delighted and honored that you could be here and that you are the first official state visitors of the Obam...

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    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Naming of New President of the European Council and EU High Representative

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC November 19, 2009 Today’s appointment of a permanent President of the European Council and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is a milestone for Europe and for its role in the world. I warmly congratulate President Van Rompuy and my new counterpart High Representative Ashton. I look forward to working closely with them to strengthen and broaden our partnership -- from achieving stability in Afghanistan to s...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Human Rights and Democracy

  • Remarks With Philippines Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Goldenberg Mansion Manila, Philippines November 12, 2009 FOREIGN SECRETARY ROMULO: Thank you all for joining us this afternoon. It is my privilege to welcome Secretary Hillary Clinton to Manila. She was here as First Lady with President Bill Clinton during our hosting of APEC in 1996, and this time she is here as the U.S. Secretary of State. In the issue that just came out, Time calls the Secretary the most powerful U.S. public diplomat in quite some tim...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Burma , Philippines , Singapore , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Interview With Abderrahim Foukara of Al Jazeera Television

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Marrakech, Morocco November 3, 2009 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, welcome to Al Jazeera in Marrakech. A lot has been said about the change that a lot of people think has taken place in the U.S. position on the issue of settlements. Today, the Arab press is saying that yet again your position has changed during your meetings in Marrakech. I want to hear in your own words what the U.S. position on the settlement issue is, please. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, t...

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    Regions: China, France , Iran , Israel , Morocco , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Combating Drugs and Crime, Countering Terrorism, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Townterview Hosted by Prominent Pakistani Women Journalists

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Islamabad, Pakistan October 30, 2009   SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everyone. (Applause.)   MODERATOR: The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, everyone.   SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you.   MODERATOR: I think you have a mike?   SECRETARY CLINTON: I have a mike on.   MODERATOR: Yeah.   SECRETARY CLINTON: Okay, good.   MODERATOR: Thank you so much for being here.   SECRETARY CLINTON: I apologize for being late....

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  • Briefing En Route Islamabad, Pakistan

    Press Conference Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State En Route Islamabad, Pakistan October 27, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Why don’t we just say a few words. I hope you all can hear me. Obviously, I view this as a very important trip in our continuing effort to create a comprehensive relationship with Pakistan that covers a whole range of issues that are important to the people of Pakistan, important to the people of the United States, and to the greater region as well. We are turning a page on w...

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Pakistan , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Remarks at the United States Institute of Peace

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Renaissance Mayflower Hotel Washington, DC October 21, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s a great honor to be introduced by Ambassador Moose. George and I have had the privilege of working together in the past, and I look forward to his good advice and counsel as we move forward on many of these important matters. I want to thank Ambassador Solomon. Dick has done an extraordinary job, as you all know, both in...

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