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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State Via Teleconference QUESTION: All right, as promised, we have the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with us right now. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much. SECRETARY POMPEO: Buck, it’s great to be with you. Thanks for having me on. QUESTION: A lot going on right now. China obviously the big focus from the international relations standpoint. There’s a piece in The Washington Post that says, “China wasn’t wild about Pompeo before the virus. It’s really gunning for him now.” ...

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State Via Teleconference QUESTION: Well, if there’s one guy who can get to the bottom of this, imagine a guy who served in the United States Congress, he served at the CIA, he served in the military, and he was a tank platoon leader, but he also went to Harvard. Now, that’s a great collection of background for a resume, and he is today the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Secretary of State Pompeo, welcome to the program. SECRETARY POMPEO: It’s great to be wi...

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State QUESTION: Joining us tonight to discuss this and much more, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Good to have you back with us, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY POMPEO: Shannon, it’s great to be with you. Thanks for having me on this evening. QUESTION: All right, so let’s start there. China says stop running disinformation; they are the ones who are the victim of a disinformation campaign. We know the President has talked publicly about investigations he’d like to see underway b...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State C Street Lobby Washington, DC January 19, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. (Cheers.) Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) Thank you very much. That was – that silenced it pretty fast. (Laughter.) I am leaving here, obviously, with sadness. It’s bittersweet because you leave. But I actually am excited about the next chapter. And I have a feeling we’re all going to continue to cross paths, co...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom January 16, 2017 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome to the program. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Happy to be here. QUESTION: We have a lot to talk about. The incoming president, your Administration’s legacy. But first and foremost, I want to ask you because here we sit on the very day that Donald Trump gives an interview to a German and a British newspaper. First and foremost, he says that he’s going to give a speedy, new, free and ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 10, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, this journey, this part of your life, is coming to an end. You’ve traveled more than any other secretary of state. You have spent considerable time and hours on a lot of issues, from China to Russia to – from Asia to Latin America. But principally, you spent a lot of time on Israel and Palestine and you spent a lot of time on the Iran nuclear deal and you’ve spent a lot of time on Syria and...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Institute of Peace Washington, DC January 10, 2017 MS WOODRUFF: Thank you, Nancy. I’m delighted to be here and, Mr. Secretary, I understand you sprinted across the street. Is that right? SECRETARY KERRY: My sprinting days are reduced, but I came. I got here. (Laughter.) MS WOODRUFF: Well, there – you were spied hurrying, I’ll put it that way. SECRETARY KERRY: “Spied,” right. (Laughter.) MS WOODRUFF: So the format is that I’m ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Annapolis, MD January 10, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Please, please, be seated. Admiral, thank you very, very much for welcoming me here to this storied academy. I am really privileged to be here, and I’m anxious to hear your questions and look forward to having a little bit of a dialogue if we can. I want to recognize Admiral Frank Pandolfe, who is class of 1980. He has served as a liaison between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the State Depart...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 10, 2017 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Secretary Baker was not able to be with us here this evening, but it’s now my honor to read a letter from the 61st Secretary of State: “Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I regret that I am unable to join Secretary Kerry and my former secretary colleagues, all of whom have been crucial to the creation of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion. The completion of the Diplomacy Center...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Cambridge, Massachusetts January 9, 2017 QUESTION: Senator Kerry, I hear you have logged 1.4 million more miles than any other secretary of state in history, and I’m wondering, are you happy to be done with this or would you keep going if you could? SECRETARY KERRY: It’s a great job. It’s a great job. I could certainly keep going for a while, but that’s not the way it is, so I’m looking forward to new adventures – to getting out...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Cambridge, Massachusetts January 9, 2017 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you so much for speaking with me today. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: First of all, I want to ask you – just big-picture here – how are you feeling at the end of your term? SECRETARY KERRY: I feel great. I mean, I feel very energized still, very focused, trying to finish up some key things; regretting a little bit that there isn’t more time to try to fi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cambridge, Massachusetts January 9, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much for a generous welcome to somebody who is about to become one of the most visibly unemployed people in America. (Laughter.) I am really thrilled to be here. Great, always, to be home, but it’s special to be here at MIT. And I want to begin by thanking Dean Schmittlein. Thank you very, very much. It&...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us today. SECRETARY KERRY: A pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: As you prepare to leave office at the end of the term, Russia and the role of Russia’s cyber hacking in the U.S. Russia has now, according to testimony and the intelligence at Armed Services hearings, Russia has hacked the State Department as we knew, the Joint Chiefs, obviously the DNC and ot...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Is it true that the Trump transition has decreed that all politically appointed ambassadors have to be gone by Inauguration Day? SECRETARY KERRY: Yes. QUESTION: Does that tell you that they intend to make a pretty clean break with the Obama Administration’s foreign policy? SECRETARY KERRY: No, because all ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president, number one. Number two, it is traditional ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. QUESTION: Let’s start with alleged Russian hacking. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said this morning that President Obama should have taken action last summer when it first became evident that the Russians were trying to hack the U.S. election. He said it was an attack on our country. Why didn’t you take action? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Secretary of State John Kerry, thank you very much for talking with us. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: So now that it has been confirmed that the Russians interfered aggressively in the U.S. election, does this represent a fundamental change in the United States relationship with Russia? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, that remains to be determined. It certainly represents a major challenge in...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: I want to start with Russia, and I know you said you have talked to your counterparts about the hacking. Did you say to them that you knew it went to the highest levels in the Russian Government? SECRETARY KERRY: In every way possible, the Russians were informed about our knowledge and displeasure about what was happening. QUESTION: Again, did they realize you knew that it was at the highest levels of th...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thanks for much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. QUESTION: Donald Trump – does his disparagement of the U.S. Intelligence Community hurt the U.S. with allies and undermine the U.S. with adversaries? SECRETARY KERRY: Wolf, I don’t – honestly, I don’t want to get into the president-elect’s current back-and-forth. He has a meeting today. I presume hope...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 5, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Hi, everybody. Matt, welcome back. QUESTION: Happy New Year. Thank you. SECRETARY KERRY: Congratulations, Matt. QUESTION: Thank you. Thank you very much. SECRETARY KERRY: A little Vaille. QUESTION: Yeah. SECRETARY KERRY: No sleep. QUESTION: Happy New Year, Mr. Secretary. QUESTION: What’s that? SECRETARY KERRY: What? QUESTION: Happy New Year, sir. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year to everybody. Thank you all. Great ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 28, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us. This is a very important moment. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. Thank you. QUESTION: An unusual speech. First of all, Donald Trump, the president-elect, tweeted today, in part, that he was very much disagreeing with this policy. He tweeted, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with…total disdain and disrespect.” He went on to say that this will all ch...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 18, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (In Arabic.) SECRETARY KERRY: Assalamualaikum . Let me say how pleased I am to be back in Riyadh, and I’m particularly happy to be here with my friend the foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, and I want to thank him for his very warm welcome. We had as solid a discussion on a whole group of issues, as he has just shared with all of you, as we have ever had. And particularly I think the ...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 15, 2016 Ensuring the continued implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a top strategic objective for the United States and for our allies and partners around the world. The JCPOA makes our nation, and the entire world, safer by verifiably ensuring Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon. This administration has made it clear that an extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is not necessary either to address activity outsi...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. I am pleased to be back in Brussels – obviously, a little bit bittersweet – to be here with my NATO colleagues for the last ministerial as Secretary of State, but I’m happy to be with my colleagues and pleased to be back in Brussels. There’s nothing nostalgic about our need to constantly reaffirm the importance of collective defense and democratic ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Berlin, Germany December 5, 2016 MODERATOR: So my job is to introduce a man who needs no introduction. As I said in there, literally, the most consequential Secretary of State in my lifetime, which is longer than I think I would like to admit. (Laughter.) And when you just think about what this man has been able to accomplish, the impossible to the impossible to the impossible – whether it’s getting China to agree to carbon emission limits or putting tog...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berlin, Germany December 5, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I’m going to wear that around the office for the next three weeks and see if I get any respect at all. (Laughter.) Guten Abend . Danke . Vielen dank . Thank you all for this really absolutely extraordinary and completely unexpected gathering. I’m so privileged and grateful for all of you coming here to share in this special moment, this friendship between Federal R...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Parco dei Principi Hotel Rome, Italy December 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (Via interpreter) Thank you very much, Paolo, and good evening. I would like to thank Foreign Minister Gentiloni, the president of the Italian Republic, the Instituto di Studi Internazionale for hosting this successful conference on the Mediterranean. (Inaudible) a special friendship. I am very grateful to you for the many courtesies that you have afforded me as Secretary of State, and it’s...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Ritz Carlton Washington, DC November 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very, very much, Karen. “Under the weather” is a polite word for the crud. (Laughter.) Anyway, thank you, Karen, for a wonderful introduction. And it’s with great pride that I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) Shh. It’s a little dangerous right now. (Laughter.) I am suffering from a bunch of grandchildren, all of whom are sniveling at...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC November 3, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, mabuhay . AUDIENCE: Mabuhay. SECRETARY KERRY: I’m happy really happy to welcome everybody. What a crowd. This is amazing. Are you running for office? (Laughter.) AMBASSADOR KIM: Next job. SECRETARY KERRY: Next job. (Laughter.) Obviously, one of our most popular diplomats, and impressive. I am really delighted that so many of you could come and join us...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Loy Henderson Auditorium Washington, DC November 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning. AUDIENCE: Good morning. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you doing? Everybody good? AUDIENCE: Yeah. Good. SECRETARY KERRY: Good. The loudest “yeah” was over here. Where are you from? QUESTION: Sri Lanka. SECRETARY KERRY: Sri Lanka. Well, you have reason to be loud. That’s good. I appreciate – Sri Lanka’s done some amazing things in the last years. So Evan, t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom October 31, 2016 MR KHAN: Can I thank you all very much for coming to this town hall meeting at the best town hall in the world, city hall. This is my living room, and I’m really pleased that we have the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in city hall today. And Secretary Kerry has agreed to take loads of questions from the floor, but those who manage his time say you’re going to get time for three. (Laughter.) So can I have an ide...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chatham House London, United Kingdom October 31, 2016 MR NIBLETT: Welcome to Chatham House, excellencies, lords, ladies, and gentlemen, and welcome also to this 2016 Chatham House Prize ceremony. We’re delighted that so many of our members are here with us today; also supporters, guests, thank you very much for making the time. Our Chatham House Council members, our Panel of Senior Advisors, our Second Century Committee, representative of U.K. Government, oppo...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Concert Noble Brussels, Belgium October 4, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, je suis John Kerry. (Laughter.) Welcome. Karen, merci, danke schon, dank u wel , and thank you – I’m really delighted to be here in the heart of Europe. I’m delighted to be in this extraordinary library building of great history, and I thank you, all of you, for taking time to come and to listen and to share thoughts and engage in something of a dialogue – a little one-sid...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cartagena, Colombia September 26, 2016 MR KIRBY: (In progress) – time, so I’m not going to eat it up with too much on the intro side. The Secretary is going to open it up here with a few comments about the importance of our time here in Cartagena and the signing of this peace accord, and then we’ll open it up for questions. We’ve got about 15 minutes, 20 for this. We’ve got about 15 minutes total, okay? QUESTION: Great. MR KIRBY: But I ...

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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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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Palace Hotel New York City, NY September 19, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for joining us on your last UNGA. I just have to ask you about these explosions last night. I know the mayor discounted terrorism, but is it a little early for that, especially given the fact that these devices might have been similar to the Boston Marathon? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I have to leave the judgment to the mayor and his team. They’re really an outstanding f...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Natural History Museum New York City September 19, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Buona sera a tutti . Good evening, everybody. (Applause.) I want to thank the voice of God for my introduction and share with you, all of you, how special it is to be here tonight at this really extraordinary gathering. Distinguished prime ministers, my colleague foreign ministers, distinguished ministers and distinguished guests all: We thank you for coming out. This is an extraordinary, impre...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC September 16, 2016 MR HELLMAN: Hello. Thanks very much. Welcome, everyone. It’s wonderful to see such an enthusiastic crowd. Let me welcome Secretary Kerry, Adrian Grenier. Thank you for joining us today as part of the first ever Our Ocean, One Future Leadership Summit. We’ve got a limited time. I’ve got a pack of questions that you’ve already given me in advance, but I’d like to just get things started by asking the Secr...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State New Delhi, India August 31, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Swati, good morning. Thank you very, very much. Thank you very – you guys all deserve an award for being able to get here today. (Laughter.) I don’t know if you came in boats or amphibious vehicles of some kind, but I salute you for being here. Thank you very, very much for making the effort, and I am extremely honored to be here. Swati, thank you for that generous introduction. And thank you, Dr. Rao. It...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and Indian Minister of Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan Building New Dehli, India August 30, 2016 MINISTER SWARAJ: Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry, Secretary of Commerce Ms. Penny Pritzker, my colleague Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, co-chairs of India-U.S. CEO Forum Mr. Cyrus Mistry and Mr. Dave Cote, distinguished (inaudible). I’m delighted to welcome ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State San Martin Palace Buenos Aires, Argentina August 4, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER MALCORRA: (Via interpretation, in progress) …to this press conference to be followed by a working lunch, which some ministers will be joining to expand on some of the items on our agenda. We have essentially – we have – hello? (Interruption to interpretation.) (Via interpretation, in progress) …meeting between the teams of the foreign ministry and the State...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 28, 2016 On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the people of Switzerland on your National Day on August 1. The United States is proud to count Switzerland among its closest friends and partners. Our countries share a deep bond rooted in our common ideals – democracy, support for peace, and a commitment to the rule of law – as well as our robust and expanding trade and investment ties. Switzerland...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State National Convention Center Vientiane, Laos July 26, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. On behalf of President Obama and all of the American people, I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of those whose loved ones were killed in the horrific attack in Sagamihara, Japan this morning. And our thoughts and our prayers are very much with those people who are going through a terrible process. And our thoughts are with the J...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna International Center Vienna, Austria July 22, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: So I should start right now? I apologize, I gather I was already asked – (laughter) – and there’s nothing like a nice gap between announce and appearance, but good afternoon to everybody here. And I want to express my personal gratitude for the opportunity to be able to share a few thoughts with everybody. I am really honored to be here. I’m delighted to be here. And I...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, United Kingdom July 19, 2016 FOREIGN SECRETARY JOHNSON: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Lacarno Room and a particularly warm welcome to U.S. Secretary John Kerry. We’re delighted to have this early opportunity to welcome the Secretary of State to London and for a key meeting with our international partners to discuss Syria and Yemen and the conflicts there. Secretary Kerry and I have just come from a very produ...

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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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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bankova Kyiv, Ukraine July 7, 2016 PRESIDENT POROSHENKO: (Via interpreter) Dear Mr. State Secretary, dear John, dear ladies and gentlemen, I am sincerely pleased to welcome you to Ukraine. For me and for all Ukrainians, for the whole world, this visit is a reflection of mighty support that the United States has been providing at the very crucial stage of development of our country. This visit is deeply symbolic and we are very pleased that you have come, Mr. State S...

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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 London, United Kingdom June 27, 2016 FOREIGN SECRETARY HAMMOND: Good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Secretary Kerry today. His visit here just three days after the referendum result underlines the strength of the special relationship and indeed Britain’s many friendships around the world, and I very much appreciate him taking the time to visit with us today. The result last Friday is, of course, not the result that I wished for, and it means a diffi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Stanford University Memorial Auditorium Stanford, California June 23, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY:  Thank you so much.  You’re the best.  I love you.  You are terrific. Thank you so much.  Thank you.  (Cheers.)  Patricia, thank you.  Thank you so much.  Good morning, everybody.  Are you all energized?  (Cheers.)  I saw that video.  I thought I’d quit as Secretary and become an entrepreneur immedia...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC June 21, 2016 SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: All right – or not. (Laughter.) I’m the shorter secretary. (Laughter.) Good evening and thank you all for being here. Today we are celebrating an important milestone in the life of a remarkable organization, and thanks to our host, Secretary Kerry, we are able to do this in the most wonderful and fitting venue. We are grateful to you, Mr. Secretary, for having us here and for taking the time to join us thi...

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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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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Shangri La Hotel Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia June 5, 2016 AMBASSADOR GALT: (In progress) This is also different from our past meetings because we don’t have any tea or cookies. (Laughter.) But today you have the opportunity to meet with United States Secretary of State John Kerry, so I trust that makes up for the missing cookies. (Laughter.) It’s a great privilege to introduce Secretary Kerry to you, but before I do that, I thought I would quickly introduce yo...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State UN General Assembly Hall New York City June 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I accept the nomination. (Laughter and applause.) What an absolutely extraordinary place to have a graduation, any graduation, but especially this one. Director Camblin, thank you for your very generous introduction. I’m glad you gave the short version. (Laughter.) And thank you, Mr. Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, an old friend and a terrific figh...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Naypyitaw, Burma May 22, 2016 MODERATOR: (Inaudible.) We will commence this press briefing with a brief statement by the Minister for (inaudible) of Myanmar, to be followed by the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and then the minister will take questions. And may I now call upon the minister for to deliver a speech. FOREIGN MINISTER AUNG SAN SUU KYI: Thank you. I won’t take too much time because I don&r...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ambassador Alexa L. Wesner Bristol Hotel Vienna, Austria May 18, 2016 AMBASSADOR WESNER: So on behalf of all three missions here, Secretary Kerry, welcome back to Vienna. Thank you for taking the time this morning to be with us. It means a lot to us. It also – I mean, I am especially grateful that you’re here today. Perhaps you could dispel a myth. (Laughter.) There have been some rumors floating around that we’ve been leading our colleagues in Swi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC May 13, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very, very much. Please be seated. Good afternoon to everybody. (In Norwegian.) (Applause.) Which, not translated literally, means “Welcome, all of you, to my house.” And it’s hardly that it’s our house; it’s Ben Franklin’s room, and we are really privileged to welcome our Nordic friends here. I truly – I didn’t start out by trying to play favorit...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Oxford, United Kingdom May 11, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Wow. I think I’m just going to stop right now. (Laughter.) Thank you for just an incredibly warm, tremendous welcome to this historic hall. It’s a great honor for me to be here. Bob, where’d you run off to? Where did he go? Thank you so much for your welcome. And Warden MacMillan, thank you very much. I appreciate it. (Inaudible) Baroness Cathy Ashton, my good friend, thank you so muc...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State TD Garden Boston, MA May 6, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: President Aoun, thank you for your very generous introduction and thank you for the invitation to be here on this very, very special day. Jim Bean, Henry Nasella, members of the board, faculty, parents, friends, and especially the brilliant and charismatic class of 2016. (Applause.) The Garden is about as good as it gets for a commencement. All you have to do is just look up there at the banners heralding the Boston ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC April 28, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Arnie, thank you very, very much. Good morning, everybody. How are you doing? We’ve never been better off than with all of these part-time employees. (Laughter.) He wants to work here; he does work here. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a diplomat, this is a diplo-mutt. (Laughter.) And he’s great. He’s a lot of fun. He’s met a lot of prime ministers and foreign ministers, and they&rs...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX April 27, 2016 MR BARNES: Thank you very much, President Fenves. It’s my pleasure this evening to introduce our Secretary of State, my friend Secretary John Kerry. As he prepares to speak tonight, I’m reminded of the many years of dedication and service that he has brought to our country. Before graduating from Yale University, Secretary Kerry voluntarily enlisted in the United Stat...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Rice University Houston, Texas April 26, 2016 MR LEEBRON: Good evening, and welcome to this wonderful venue at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. We are thrilled to be hosting such a remarkable event tonight and thankful to Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy for making it possible. We are very grateful to Secretary Kerry for choosing the Baker Institute for his address this evening, and we welcome him warmly to Rice University. ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Washington, DC April 18, 2016 Well thank you very, very much. Winston Churchill reminded all of us that the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear. (Laughter.) So I know that all of you had a far more noble concept – and utilitarian, I hope. My profound thanks to Jeremy Ben-Ami, my thanks to the board of directors, my thanks to all of you for b...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Omni Hotel Los Angeles, CA April 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mickey, thank you very, very much. I remember you when you were six foot four and blond, and I’m not sure what you are now, but we all get cut down to size in this business. (Laughter.) I have to tell you all, first of all, what a great privilege it is to be here with the Pacific Council. I have great respect for, admiration for your commitment to all things international, and it’s a privilege fo...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Kerry, first of all, you must have heard the reports that Syrian regime troops and their allies are launching a major attack against the opposition south of Aleppo. Is – this is the end of the truce? SECRETARY KERRY: No, they’re launching an attack, to our understanding, against Nusrah. And under the cessation of hostiles, Nusrah and Daesh are both targets of everybody. So we will be talking directly with the...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-KHALIFA: (In progress.) We discussed ways to further our military cooperation through mechanisms agreed at Camp David last year and the subsequent progress made by the U.S. and GCC working groups. We also discussed the importance of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, which is responsible for a considerable increase in bilateral trade in the past 10 years or so. We explored ways to in...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State New York City April 5, 2016 QUESTION: John Kerry is here. He is the 68th Secretary of State of the United States. After 28 years in the Senate, he succeeded Hillary Clinton in 2013. Last year, he brokered a landmark nuclear deal with Iran. He’s also played a key role in the latest round of Syrian peace negotiations. According to The New Yorker ’s David Remnick, Kerry’s admirers and critics alike describe him in similar terms – “tirele...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC March 30, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, folks. The Foreign Minister of Egypt Sameh Shoukry has been one of my closest interlocutors over the last few years. We have worked extremely closely together on many issues. Let me first say in welcoming him here to Washington how relieved we all were that the Egyptian Air hijacking turned out to have all of the crew and all of the passengers unharmed, and we’re grateful for that, obviously. Egypt h...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France March 13, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AYRAULT: (Via interpreter) (In progress) This is a conflict that next Tuesday will be completing its fifth year of existence. Now the intra-Syrian negotiations should resume tomorrow and they will be very difficult. But together we would like to restate the support we want to give to the moderate opposition. The moderate opposition has decided to attend the Geneva talks and to sit around the table for the negotiations. W...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC March 9, 2016 QUESTION: Well, it’s a great honor for us to have you today. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. QUESTION: I’m going to get right at it. SECRETARY KERRY: Go for it. QUESTION: We’ll start with certainly the news of the day out of Iran and state media there reporting that they’ve test launched new missiles and Vice President Biden, as you say, traveling, saying the U.S. will take action if that&rs...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Well, Frank-Walter and I wanted to take advantage of Leap Year, the extra day in February, so we figured we’d get together once again. We are hardly, hardly strangers. We spent an enormous amount of time in Vienna, in Lausanne, in Montreux, in Geneva, and already in Munich this year, and we’ve spent a lot of time working together, cooperating, and talking about the cri...

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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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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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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Munich, Germany February 13, 2016 QUESTION: Thank you so much for giving us the time today, Secretary of State John Kerry. I want to start by talking about the cessation of violence and the statement that you released yesterday with Lavrov about Syria. They’re talking about entering aid to the besieged areas and cessation of violence and not ceasefire. Can you please tell us the difference? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, a ceasefire implies the end of the conflict i...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bayerischer Hof Hotel Munich, Germany February 13, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, Wolfgang. Thank you very much. Well, Wolfgang, thank you for reminding me that everything I’m doing now is a last. (Laughter.) It’s a little – depending on what I decide to do, so maybe not. (Laughter.) I am really happy to be back in Munich and I’m very happy to share thoughts with this, the 52nd edition of the Security Conference. And I think if you all thin...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Landmark Hotel Vientiane, Laos January 25, 2016 AMBASSADOR CLUNE: Well, I have the great pleasure of introducing somebody who needs no introduction, Secretary of State John Kerry. As most of you know, prior to joining us at the State Department in 2013, Secretary Kerry served for 28 years in the United States Senate, the last four as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He comes from very good stock. His father, Richard Kerry, was a Foreign Servic...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Royal Air Base Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 23, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter) (In progress) the Saudi Arabia, which has two purposes. He is going to meet with His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and the minister of defense of Saudi Arabia, after this meeting. We have met with his excellency, the foreign ministers of the GCC in the framework of the deliberatio...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Klaus, thank you very, very much. Hello, everybody. Good morning to you. Klaus, first of all, thank you for your very warm, generous introduction. I especially want to thank you for your superb leadership of the World Economic Forum for many years. As you’ve said, it’s been my honor to come here. This may have been the hardest trip of all. I was looking up at the mountain, fresh snow, and I saw those b...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016 QUESTION: We are joined right now by the U.S. Secretary of State. He’s had his finger on the pulse of a number of hot-button issues – from the easing of Iranian sanctions and the release of U.S. prisoners to ISIS’s growing terror network and now the potential fallout throughout the Middle East as oil prices keep plummeting. Secretary John Kerry joins us right now. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, listen, everybody. Greetings and thank you for your patience while we’re here, obviously. There’s a lot of bilateral diplomacy, trilateral even, that’s going on. I met this morning with Prime Minister Sharif and President Ghani and the Vice President. I also met one-on-one and otherwise with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And last night we met with President – the Vice President and I me...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 18, 2016 QUESTION: Huge diplomatic events this weekend: five American citizens detained in Iran released, nuclear sanctions against Iran lifted. The man in the middle of it all, Secretary of State John Kerry, joins us on New Day this morning. Mr. Secretary, we know how busy you’ve been, so we appreciate you taking the time to be here. Let me start at the end, Mr. Secretary, if I can. After 14 months of negotiations over these 5 prisone...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 18, 2016 QUESTION: And joining us now, the Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for joining us here in our Situation Room. I know you’ve spent a lot of time in another Situation Room in town as well. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. QUESTION: You have said the prisoner release, in your word, was accelerated by the nuclear talks, the nuclear deal. Were these prisoners pawns, part of that deal? SECRETARY KERRY...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna, Austria January 16, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for your patience. And I apologize for the fact that I can’t stay to take questions, which I would like to do. But we are operating under some very tight constraints on the rest period the law allows for our pilots, because of some of the delays. So as a result, I need to get to the airport and get on the plane. But I will make a statement before doing so, and I hope...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State National Defense University Washington, DC January 13, 2016 Thank you. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much, Major General Padilla. Thank you, all of you. It’s a great privilege for me to be able to be here today. I’m delighted to be in the presence of so many people currently serving our nation, all with great distinction. And it’s a privilege to be at NDU. I’m also honored that the Secretary of the Air Force Debbie James is here. Th...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 7, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year. QUESTION: Happy New Year. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you all doing? Nice to see you all. Thank you very much. So I really just – I wanted to drop by this afternoon not to steal any of John’s thunder, if that’s even possible, by taking questions. There will be plenty of time for that, believe me, over the course of the next few weeks and beyond that. But I wanted to share with you a coupl...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Spaso House Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015 QUESTION: Secretary of State Kerry, thank you so much to you for finding a gap in your so busy – very busy schedule. I should stress to our viewers that we’re talking in between encounter with Lavrov and before he meets Mr. Putin with whom you may or may not come to an agreement. So let’s start with reviewing certain things this last year and a half. SECRETARY KERRY: Sure. QUESTION: We all remember Pre...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Sergey, thank you very much for arranging this meeting and thank you for your welcome here in Moscow. I agree completely with the agenda you’ve set out. I think it’s the agenda we’ve discussed previously. And I think today is an important day for us to try to make further progress on a number of these issues. In the meeting in New York between our presidents, both Preside...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France December 9, 2015 MR FRIEDMAN: It’s a treat for us to have you here this morning. We really appreciate your taking time. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. MR FRIEDMAN: And I want to dive right in. Are we going to get a deal here in Paris, and why will it be important? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, look, I hope we do. We’ll see a new text around noon today, and then we’ll be able to begin to measure where the potential derailers really are, or aren&...

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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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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Athens, Greece December 4, 2015 FOREIGN MINISTER KOTZIAS: (Via interpreter) Good morning. I would like to welcome dear U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with whom we’ve been working very closely, and I know that there are traditional friendship ties that join the two countries. I would like to welcome him and hope to see him again in the future, because he is a man who loves sailing, who really loves the sea, and the Gr...

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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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