Secretary Remarks

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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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 John Kerry Secretary of State Gudaibiya Palace Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 KING HAMAD: Your Excellency, Secretary Kerry, distinguished guests, it’s a great pleasure to welcome you, Secretary Kerry, and your accompanying delegation to Bahrain. Your visit comes at a crucial time for our region and the world, and highlights the importance of the deep and longstanding partnership between Bahrain and the United States of America. This historic relationship between our two nations was born not...

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Regions: Afghanistan, Bahrain , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC June 20, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: It’s my pleasure to welcome the minister responsible for foreign affairs from Oman, Yusuf bin Alawi, and it’s a great pleasure for me to welcome him here because His Majesty the Sultan of Oman has given the United States important advice and counsel, has helped us to be able to do things that might otherwise have been difficult in terms of reaching out to people, building alliances, building coali...

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Regions: Oman , United States

Topics: Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

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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Regions: Afghanistan, Bahrain , Belgium , Egypt , Iran , Iraq , Kuwait , Lebanon , Netherlands , Oman , Pakistan , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , United States , Yemen

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

Remarks at Signing Ceremony for U.S.-U.A.E. Agreement on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Secretary Condoleezza Rice Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC January 15, 2009 MODERATOR :Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The United States Secretary of State, the Honorable Condoleezza Rice and the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan, today are signing the U.S.-U.A.E. Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. Ladies and...

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Regions: Iraq , United States

Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Energy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

Press Availability With Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit Secretary Condoleezza Rice Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt July 31, 2007 View Video FOREIGN MINISTER GHEIT: (Via interpreter) We had today a meeting, the group of the GCC plus Egypt and Jordan. We convened that meeting with Dr. Rice, the Secretary of State, and the meeting truly was one of the important meetings. We have covered a wide variety of regional issues and we agreed on a statement that will be issued and it will cover six points. Obviously, ...

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Regions: Egypt , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Saudi Arabia , United States

Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism