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Photos from the trip» U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Europe from December 4-11, for a series of bilateral and multinational meetings. On December 4-5, the Secretary met in Berlin, Germany, with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to discuss cooperation on a range of regional and global issues, including the upcoming NATO and OSCE Ministerials, Syria, and Ukraine. Secretary Kerry also received the Federal Cross of Merit from Foreign Minister Steinmeier, and he met with a...

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May 31, 2009 to June 4, 2009 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Photo Gallery 1 , 2 , 3 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to El Salvador and Honduras from May 31 to June 2. Secretary Clinton traveled to El Salvador to attend the presidential inauguration of Mauricio Funes on June 1. While in El Salvador, the Secretary attended a ministerial meeting of Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas . The Secretary then traveled to Honduras to lead the U.S. delegation to the O...

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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 United States Institute for Peace Washington, DC September 12, 2016 Nathan, thank you. Thank you for that very spirited introduction and for your story. I’ve often quoted many Chinese proverbs myself. I was thinking about the one you just quoted and I – it sort of struck me that I guess it depends on where those thousand miles are. If it’s across the Gobi Desert or the Sahara, I’d rather read the books. But that’s okay. (Laughter.) I wa...

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

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington Passport Agency Washington, DC July 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Thank you, Michele, very, very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Michele, thank you very, very much. Today is also an education for me. You have no idea how many times I drive by here. I had no idea – (laughter) – we had this brilliantly beautiful office over here in this building, so it’s – you’re broadening my horizons even today. I go...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC June 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Regina, thank you very much. Good morning to everybody. Regina is the first USAID officer to become president of GLIFAA, and I think everybody here will agree she is doing an outstanding job, so thank you very, very much. (Applause.) I want to thank and congratulate at the same time Secretary Fanning. Thank you for your groundbreaking leadership, and we appreciate enormously what you are doing. Th...

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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 Stuart E. Jones    U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Embassy Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq April 8, 2016 AMBASSADOR JONES: Thank you very much. It’s a great honor to have Secretary Kerry here. They gave me this mike up here because the podium is so tall for the Secretary that they were afraid you wouldn’t be able to see me. (Laughter.) (Inaudible.) Thank you all very much for coming out. Mr. Secretary, it’s a great honor to have you....

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama Washington, DC March 30, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY:   Well, good afternoon and hello, and welcome to the Treaty Room of the State Department.  We don’t have a treaty to sign today, but we’re delighted to be here.  I’m really pleased to be joined by my colleague Geoffrey Onyeama, and very happy to welcome his distinguished delegation here today.  The importance of today, which is a full day&r...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy February 2, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER GENTILONI: (In progress) we are now beginning this third ministerial meeting of the so-called Small Group of the international anti-Daesh coalition, and I think that one of the issues that we could discuss and deliver today is to have even more frequent meetings of this Small Group during 2016. We had last year only one meeting, and one in 2014, but the...

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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Nicosia, Cyprus December 3, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Let me begin by saying how very pleased I am to be here in Cyprus. I have closely followed the challenges on this island for literally decades, 28-plus years in the United States Senate while on the Foreign Relations Committee, and you couldn’t help but be engaged in the challenge of Cyprus. And it has been a priority for me and for President Obama – for President Obama befo...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State USS San Antonio Norfolk, Virginia November 10, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Brigadier General-select Gering, thank you very much for your welcome. Captain Patterson, thanks so much for welcoming me aboard the San Antonio . Admiral Tidd – Admiral Tidd has just been selected to be SOUTHCOM commander. He’s been working with me now over the last year as the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I’m honored to have him here with me. And Admira...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 8, 2015 ASSISTANT SECRETARY RYAN: Thank you. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the State Department today in honor of Our Cities, Our Climate – an initiative between the State Department and Bloomberg Philanthropies. We are here to recognize and honor global city leadership on a topic of great importance – climate change. At the State Department, this is at the top of our agenda, and we are thrilled to partner with Mi...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew Miami Herald December 20, 2014 President Obama’s decision to begin normalizing relations with Cuba will advance United States’ interests and those of the Cuban people. The 11 million people of this island nation have waited far too long — over half a century — to fulfill their democratic aspirations and build closer ties with the rest of the world in the 21st century. Our new...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 17, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s a great pleasure for me to welcome Foreign Minister Chikoti of Angola to here in Washington, and very much appreciate the opportunity to reciprocate the foreign minister’s generous welcome to me when I was privileged to be in Angola last summer. We agreed that we would engage in a good dialogue on an ongoing basis, which has been absent from our relationship, frankly, for t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bill Burns Auditorium Washington, DC December 10, 2014 AMBASSADOR SELFRIDGE: Please, everyone be seated. Thank you. And I know that applause wasn’t for me, but – (laughter) – nonetheless, I say thank you. So distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the Burns Auditorium for the swearing in of Ted Osius, the next United States ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. I’d like t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, DC December 8, 2014 Thank you very much, Myron, and I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) I am happy to be here with all of you. It’s got to be hard walking around with everybody calling you brilliant, don’t you think? (Laughter.) Not a bad way to go. Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Guests all, Ambassadors, Your Excellencies, my great friend former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa, former Deputy Secr...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State European External Action Service Brussels, Belgium December 3, 2014 Well, thank you very much for that, Federica. I’m delighted to be here with the high representative and pleased to be in the company of Vice President Sefcovic and Commissioner Canete and Vice-Minister De Vincenti. I’m glad to be back here in this room where we’ve had a couple of meetings already. Last year we were here and we had a good session. I am not accompanied today by Secre...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC December 1, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY:   Well, good morning, everybody.  Thanks, all, for joining us here, and I want to recognize our Assistant Secretary of State Toria Nuland, who’s over here, who said to me, “I don’t need to introduce you.  You just go out there and take it over.”  (Laughter.)  So I’m following my orders, as usual. Thanks to all of you here, the whole bunch of you here w...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Northeast Marriott Beijing, China November 8, 2014 AMBASSADOR BAUCUS: (In progress) so much on the economics. And basically, made the point that if we get the economics part right, that's going to help get other parts and relationships right after that. So, I'm not going to say any more, except to say it's a great honor to introduce a very good friend of mine. We served I don't know how many years together in the Senate, 20-plus years in the Senate, ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Intercontinental Beijing Beijing, China November 8, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Scott, thank you. Thank you very much. I apologize for being a little bit late. And it’s an honor for me to be able to be here. I’m delighted to be here with everybody. I’m particularly happy to be here with my good friend and colleague, the Foreign Minister from the Philippines, Albert Del Rosario. Albert, always good to be with you, and thank you very much. Albert said to m...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Harman Center Washington, DC October 30, 2014 MODERATOR: But now let me now introduce Secretary John Kerry. There’s a spot on the State Department’s website that shows a running log of everywhere Secretary John Kerry has traveled. He’s logged well over 300 miles – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Afghanistan, Lebanon – a testament to the complexity and challenge of his charge. There is another side to Secretary Kerry...

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

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC October 23, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Nisha, thank you very, very much. Welcome, everybody, to a celebration, and happy Diwali to all of you. It’s nice to be here. AUDIENCE: Happy Diwali. (Applause.) SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. We are really pleased to be celebrating this tonight, and I’m particularly grateful for Nisha, both for her generous welcome to all of you and to me, but more especially because she&rsq...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC October 2, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you so much, Evan. Thank you. Wow, thank you. I didn’t know I was going to be interrupting cocktails. (Laughter.) I feel entirely guilty. It’s okay if you don’t eat, but not drinking is really serious. (Laughter.) Thank you very, very much. It’s sort of complicated to parachute in like this and then race off. And I think I’m hearing music accompanying my speech, wh...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC September 17, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, and members of the committee, my friends and former colleagues, I really thank you for holding this hearing on an issue that is obviously fraught with all the high stakes that both the chairman and the ranking member have just described and all of the members of the committee understand deeply. And I really look forward to this oppo...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC August 17, 2014 We extend our deepest condolences to Mrs. Doris Todman and her family as they mourn the loss of their husband and father, Ambassador Terence A. Todman, who passed away on August 13. In a distinguished, trailblazing, and celebrated career that spanned nearly 50 years, Terence was one of the very few Foreign Service Officers to attain the rank of Career Ambassador in the Department of State, and the first African American to do s...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC August 13, 2014 After five years in the Administration, the last three as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), Ambassador Rick Barton has announced his resignation, effective September 30. Assistant Secretary Barton has provided bold leadership in establishing a new bureau to prevent and respond to conflict and crises worldwide, laying the groundwork for civilian-led efforts to break cycles of viol...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State UNAMA Special Representative Jan Kubis; Afghan Presidential Candidate Abdullah Abdullah; Afghan Presidential Candidate Ashraf Ghani United Nations Assistance Mission Kabul, Afghanistan August 8, 2014 MR. ABDULLAH: Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to inform our people at this very critical moment of our history that today myself, our teams, and Dr. Ashraf Ghani and his team – we are taking another step forward in the interests of start strengthening nati...

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

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC June 18, 2014 Ken, thank you very, very much for reminding me of the years that have passed. (Laughter.) And first, let me begin with a profound apology to everybody here. I don’t make it a practice to run over your schedules; unfortunately the world is not cooperating with mine today. (Laughter.) So I was not able to get down here in time, and I’m going from here upstairs for the unveiling of former Secretary Condo...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Catherine A. Novelli    Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment  Loy Henderson Conference Room Washington, DC June 17, 2014 Moderator:  Under Secretary Catherine Novelli Guest Speakers:  Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr., President, Republic of Palau Heraldo Munoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile Borge Brende, Foreign Minister, Norway Robert Dussey, Foreign Minister, Togo Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing D...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC June 16, 2014 QUESTION: Hi, everyone, and welcome to a special Yahoo livestream from the State Department with Secretary of State John Kerry. Secretary Kerry, thank you so much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be with you. QUESTION: We’re going to be talking about the oceans, a subject near and dear to your heart in a moment, but of course, there is a lot going on in Iraq -- SECRETARY KERRY: Absolutely. QUESTION: -...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State 21st Street Entrance Washington, DC June 12, 2014 Bill, thank you very much. Good morning, everybody, distinguished guests all, and particularly the members of the Bynum family and extended clan. We’re delighted to be able to honor you here today. As Bill just mentioned to you, on the other side of this building – and I hope you have a chance to see it if you haven’t seen it already when you came in – we have the AFSA, the American Foreign Se...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Catherine A. Novelli    Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment  David A. Balton    Deputy Assistant Secretary , Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Washington, DC June 11, 2014 MS. HARF: Hi everybody. Thank you to everyone for coming today. For those of you who I haven’t met, I’m Marie Harf. I’m the deputy spokesperson here. We’ll be ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State NATO Headquarters Brussels, Belgium December 3, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Before we get to a discussion of the NATO business, I’d like to just spend a brief moment, if I can, saying something about events that the whole world is watching, and that is the situation in Ukraine. The powerful expressions of support for Europe in cities all across the Ukraine have really been quite extraordinary. People of all different backgrounds are giving v...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC November 21, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: What a pleasure to be here. Vice Premier Liu, we are really honored to have you here, and it’s a pleasure to see all of you here. I thank you so much for coming to join us for this consultation on people-to-people exchanges. This really is where the action is, and I am excited by the energy and I’m excited by the discussion. Madame Liu and I spent a littl...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State George Marshall East Auditorium Washington, DC November 21, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you all for coming. This is by far one of the best parts of this job, is when you get to recognize extraordinary talent and you see families and friends, colleagues, people come together to celebrate extraordinary talent and service to our country. So I’m thrilled to be here and I apologize to all of you that we’re running just a little bit behind. We had an overflow ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC November 21, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning, all. This just proves you have to get up early to keep up with Phil Goldberg. (Laughter.) We really appreciate everybody being here this morning, and Mr. Ambassador Cuisia, thank you very much for being here with us. And I want to thank Phil for being – agreeing to be sworn in on such short notice. Everybody understands that we were able to move this up ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Organization of American States Washington, DC November 18, 2013 Mr. Secretary-General, thank you very, very much. Thank you for a wonderful welcome on this absolutely beautiful, luscious, seductive fall day, as pretty as it gets, and one that’s quickly prompting all of us to ask why we’re at work today. I’m privileged to be here. I want to thank the Inter-American Dialogue. Thank you, Michael Shifter, and thank you, Ambassador Deborah-Mae Lovell f...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC October 30, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning, everybody. How you all doing? Good? Nice to be with you. Welcome. We’re really, really happy to have you here at the State Department and we’re delighted that you are taking part in this really critical program – historic program in many ways – the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. I’m very grateful to our Assistant Secretary Evan Ryan for h...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Daniel R. Russel    Assistant Secretary , Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC August 5, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, all of you, for being here. My apologies to you for keeping you waiting, but actually it wasn’t me it was that darn place where Danny used to work (laughter). They had us captive on a video conference. I apologize for keeping you waiting. Mostly I apologize because I want...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Vice Premier Wang Yang Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC July 10, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I want to thank my good friend of almost 40-plus years, the Vice President of the United States, for coming today. I don’t think there’s ever been a Vice President who is as steeped in foreig...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC June 20, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I really appreciate the opportunity to be here. I apologize for being a moment late. I just came from the Hill, where I was testifying on the subject of Syria, where we obviously have an enormous impact in terms of refugees. I appreciate your allowing me to sneak in and move the box and stand here and talk to you. (...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC June 19, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Please, please, please, please. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very, very much. Ken, thank you for a generous welcome. Thank you all. Secretary Pat Kennedy and Director General Linda Thomas-Greenfield, thank you for being here, and others. We appreciate it. Tara, every...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State White House Washington, DC May 17, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . MS. JARRETT: Good morning, everyone. I’m Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls. I’d like to welcome you all to the White House. This is the second time that we have held the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons here at the White House, and in ...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC April 18, 2013 Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Corker, and members of the committee, thank you very much. It’s a privilege to be back here, though still a little surreal to be on this side of the dais. But I’m honored to be back here, and I thank all of you for your generous comments and particularly for the cooperation on any number of issues along the way. Thank you for your me...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Washington, DC April 17, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very, very much, Madam Chairwoman and Madam Ranking Member, my good friend Nita Lowey, Chairman Rogers, and members of the committee. It’s great to appear before you. This is a privilege for me. I like the intimate setting, and I look forward to having good dialogue with everybody. We do indeed...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC March 12, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Eide to the State Department. It’s a particular pleasure for me because I had the occasion of living in Norway for a couple years when my dad served in the Embassy there. I was reminiscing with the Foreign Minister about some wonderful times in the parks and on the hills and ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC January 24, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . Thank you. Well, we’re all getting a little emotional and sentimental around here – (laughter) – with about a little over a week to go in my tenure. And I am so pleased to welcome all of you here. I see many, many familiar faces and some good friends in this audience. And I particularly want to thank Assistant Secretary Kurt Campb...

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Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC January 23, 2013 This video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube . Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee, both older and new. I’m very grateful for this opportunity and I thank you very much for your patience to give me the chance to come and address these issues with you. As both the Chairman and the Ranking Member ha...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC January 17, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. It is a great privilege for us to be welcoming President Hassan Sheikh and his delegation here to the State Department. Today’s meeting has been a long time in the making. Four years ago, at the start of the Obama Administration, Somalia was, in many ways, a different country than it is today. The people...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC November 28, 2012 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, and welcome to the State Department. And here in the Diplomatic Rooms, in a room named for Ben Franklin, we have many events throughout the course of the year, but I like to think that Mr. Franklin would find this one especially important because of his commitment to innovation and all that can spring from good businesses doing good work. I want to thank Under Secretary...

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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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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State George C. Marshall Center Washington, DC November 8, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube Hey. Good morning. What a great day. Welcome to the State Department and congratulations. I am so pleased and delighted to see so many families and children here at this special ceremony. And I particularly want to thank Secretary Janet Napolitano for joining us. You’ve already heard from Janet, and you know that she’s the ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC November 8, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Well, it’s a great delight to see all of you here. And as I look out on this audience, I see many familiar faces from the diplomatic community. And I especially thank each and every one of you for being here on this important issue. Congressman Moran, thank you for joining us ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State George C. Marshall Auditorium Washington, DC September 20, 2012 Well, good morning, and again, welcome to the State Department. I want to thank Deputy Secretary Tom Nides for taking the lead on our economic statecraft agenda. I would thank him for the introduction, but if you want a good introduction, have someone who works for you do it. And Tom, I’m grateful to you for that. I also want to thank all of our State Department team, whom you will be ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC December 19, 2011 MS. NULAND: Good morning, everybody. We are very pleased to welcome Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. SECRETARY CLINTON: Hi. I see we have some special reporters here today. Welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Maybe you can help your dad do his work here. (Laughter.) Good morning, and I am pleased to be here this morning to release the 10 th edition of To Walk the Earth in Safety , the United States G...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, DC December 14, 2011 Thank you very much, Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, who has been an absolutely essential leader on behalf of our policies in Africa and in particular with respect to South Sudan. And I want publicly to thank him for all of his work. President Kiir, it is an honor to welcome you here as a head of state along with your ministers and distinguished delegation. I also wish to thank our co-hosts...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland December 7, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much. And it’s an honor for me to join all of you here for the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 50th anniversary of the Statelessness Convention. I’m honored to be here with the minister for immigration from Kenya and to stand with all of the other ministers and senior government officials to reaffirm our commitment to the principles of the two conve...

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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 Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Hawaii Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii November 11, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. Let me begin by saying how pleased I am to be here in beautiful Honolulu for this APEC Leaders' Meeting and the work that all of the ministers have been doing, and to have a chance to report to you briefly about the extraordinary efforts underway here. As you know, President Obama will be arriving back home shortly, and we will then emb...

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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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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Economic Club of New York New York City October 14, 2011 MODERATOR: Good morning everyone, and welcome to the 418th meeting of the Economic Club of New York. We’re now in our 104th year. Today, again we prove that we are the nation’s premier nonpartisan forum for discussion of economic policy. Today we welcome our Secretary of State. Hillary Rodham Clinton has demonstrated that in foreign policy and national security what is economic is strat...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC September 13, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning, everyone. Here with me today are Michael Posner, our Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Suzan Johnson Cook, our Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and members of their teams. They will brief you on our efforts to promote religious freedom and will take your questions afterwards. Before I begin on this important topic, I want to address the si...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC December 17, 2010 MS. MCCARTHY: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Department of State’s historic Benjamin Franklin Diplomatic Reception Room, which many of you have seen before; it is truly a treasure. My name is Deborah McCarthy. I’m the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Economic Bureau, and we are part – I am part of a fantastic economic team here in the Department that supports U.S. bus...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton    Secretary of State Michael H. Posner    Assistant Secretary , Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC December 10, 2010 ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Welcome, everybody, and happy Human Rights Day. Please have a seat. Sixty-two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which established, really, for the first time, the universality of human rights – every human being ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC November 17, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. It’s my pleasure to join you today for the release of the State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom . Every year, the State Department prepares a comprehensive review of the status of religious freedom in countries and territories around the world. We do this because we believe that religious freedom is both a fundamental human right and an essential...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC November 17, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, it is a real delight for me to take a few minutes to come and say thank you. Thank you for participating with the Overseas Security Advisory Council and being part of that effort to advance American interests around the world. And I want to thank Assistant Secretary Boswell for everything that he does every day to keep all of us all at the St...

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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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March 23, 2010 to March 23, 2010 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Photos: state.gov , Flickr Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Mexico City, Mexico for the Merida U.S.-Mexico High Level Consultative Group meeting on March 23, 2010. The Secretary was joined by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates; Secretary of Homeland Security Janet A. Napolitano; Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair; Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John O. Bre...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC December 11, 2009 MR. CROWLEY: A woman who truly needs no introduction, the 67 th Secretary of State and our global rock star, Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Laughter.) SECRETARY CLINTON: Just don’t ask me to sing, that’s all I ask. Well, it is a very great pleasure to be here today to welcome you to the first in a series of diplomacy briefings that we will be hosting here at the State Department. I want to thank all of you for being...

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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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Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Islamabad, Pakistan October 30, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the following remarks Friday morning, October 30, 2009, in Islamabad, Pakistan: I'm very pleased to announce that we've had a breakthrough in negotiations in Honduras. I want to congratulate the people of Honduras as well as President Zelaya and Mr. Micheletti for reaching an historic agreement. I also congratulate Costa Rican President Oscar Arias for the im...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 19, 2009 Thank you. Well, this is an occasion that many of us have been waiting for – (laughter) – and it is both a delight and, frankly, a relief that it has finally come to pass, because I am absolutely thrilled to swear in Mike Posner as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. It’s also a pleasure to welcome members of his family, including his wife and his children and his mother a...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State En route London October 10, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: This is on the record, yes. Well, we had a good night in Zurich, watching the signing of the protocols between Turkey and Armenia. And now the process continues. We, obviously, are committed to doing everything we can to build on the milestone that was reached today, but it's challenging. And there is a lot of very difficult, complex issues that have to continually be discussed and worked out. But I am ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC October 6, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. QUESTION: Good afternoon. SECRETARY CLINTON: It is once again a pleasure to welcome Foreign Minister Qureshi here to the State Department. I am always delighted to see him, whether it is here or in Thailand or in the Netherlands or anywhere else. And it is important because we have, once again this afternoon, engaged in a productive discussion on the broad strategic p...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 30, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: The 6,195 th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is before the Council in document S/Agenda 6,195, which reads, and I quote: “Women and Peace and Security,” end of quote. Unless I hear any objection, I shall consider the agenda adopted. The agenda is adopted.   I should like to inform the Council that I ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton    Secretary of State Farah Anwar Pandith    Special Representative to Muslim Communities  Treaty Room Washington, DC September 15, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, thank you, Capricia, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the State Department. I know there are some who have been here many times before, but for some of you, it is your first visit. And we’re delighted to hold this very special ceremony for our nation’s first Special ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Yar’Adua Center, Abuja, Nigeria August 12, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Let me introduce to you, those who have not met her, our Ambassador, Robin Sanders, and our Assistant Secretary for Africa, Ambassador Johnnie Carson. Please. Thank you. AMBASSADOR SANDERS: Good afternoon. (Speaking in different languages.) I have the singular pleasure this afternoon to not only welcome and introduce to you the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Secr...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Johannesburg, South Africa August 7, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, and it's a great pleasure for me to be here. I want to express my appreciation to IDC and to BUSA and to the government for having representatives and helping to make this event an important one on my schedule of visits throughout Africa, a real highlight extraordinary opportunities that lie ahead. So I wish to thank Jeffrey and Jerry and, of course, the minister. My delega...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Nairobi, Kenya August 6, 2009 AMBASSADOR RANNEBERGER : Well, please everyone, please. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming. I am extremely honored today to have with us the Secretary of State. It’s really a great pleasure and a privilege to welcome you, Madame Secretary, to the U.S. mission, and really to our mission community. That you’ve come to Africa and to Kenya first so early in your tenure is most encou...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Conducted by Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Beatrice Marshall of KTN University of Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya August 6, 2009 VICE CHANCELLOR MAGOHA: Secretary Clinton, your Excellencies, Dr. Sally Kosgey, the minister for education, science, and technology, Chancellor Wanjui, PS higher education, Your Excellencies, invited guests, participants, ladies, and gentlemen, on behalf of the University of Nairobi and on my own behalf, I warmly welcome you all to the un...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Kenyatta International Conference Centre Nairobi, Kenya August 5, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER WETANGULA: Good afternoon, gentlemen and ladies from the media. I’m happy to be here this afternoon with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who jetted in last evening to attend the AGOA Forum. After the opening of the forum, where you all were, she’s had very in-depth bilateral discussions with President Mwai Kibaki, who was accompanied by the Right Honor...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Nairobi, Kenya August 5, 2009 SECRETARY VILSACK: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Minister, thank you very much. I come from the state of Iowa, where they say that that’s where the tall corn grows. Well, apparently, I’m where the tall maize grows. (Laughter.) And it is a pleasure and an honor to be here. Earlier this afternoon, I had a chance to meet with one of the ministers from Namibia. And he said something that I thought wa...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Treaty Room Washington, DC July 28, 2009 MODERATOR: Good morning. We are here to commence the signing ceremony for the U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation in Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment. We now invite Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Policy David Sandalow and National Development and Reform Commission Vice...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Government, House Bangkok, Thailand July 21, 2009 MODERATOR: The Honorable Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, and His Excellency, Mr. Korbsak Sabhavasu, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand. We invite His Excellency to give a press statement first. Please.   DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SABHAVASU: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, member of the press, today we are very pleased to welcome Secretary Clinton. Secretary Clinton and Mr. Pr...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, DC June 17, 2009 Thank you. Thank you all so much. It is a great pleasure for me to be back here at the Chamber for such an important occasion. I want to thank David for that introduction, and I want to thank my friend, Indra, for those very kind words. It gives you an idea of how much we admire each other and her leadership of a great American company with obviously international reach.   To Ron Summers and to t...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State San Pedro Sula, Honduras June 2, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. Good morning, everyone, and let me thank you so much for getting up so early. And we were talking as we came in about – anyone feel the earthquake? Very slight. Very slight, indeed. And as you can tell, this is a real pleasure for us, and I appreciate all of you making the effort to come together. One of the goals that President Obama and I have is to deepen our relationship wit...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 11, 2009 Secretary Clinton’s remarks from the top of the May 11, 2009 Daily Press Briefing: Good morning. Still, it’s morning nearly. I just spoke to the Swiss Ambassador to the United States, who confirms, as the protecting power, that Roxana Saberi has been released from prison. She is currently with her family and will be leaving Tehran to return to the United States in the coming days. Obviously, we continue to take iss...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen Bosworth Treaty Room Washington, DC February 26, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. I am very pleased to be here today with Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, our Special Representative for North Korea Policy. He will be our senior official handling North Korea issues, and he will report to President Obama and me. Ambassador Bosworth is wasting no time in undertaking his new assignment. Earl...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC February 25, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: I apologize for being a little late. This is such an important event in the annual calendar of the State Department. You know, human progress depends on the human spirit, and this inescapable truth has never been more apparent than it is today. The challenges of this new century require us to summon the full range of human talents to move our nation and the world forward. Guaranteeing the right of every...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Roundtable with Korean Journalists Seoul, South Korea February 20, 2009 MODERATOR: So it’s my great pleasure to welcome you, Madame Secretary, and I think I’ll just ask how you’d like to begin, maybe say a couple of things. You’ve had a long day. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am delighted to have this opportunity to sit down with all of you, and I’m very pleased to be back here in Korea. I have very pl...

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Interview With April Ryan of American Urban Radio Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC January 14, 2009 QUESTION: I’m with our esteemed Secretary of State, Dr. – Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. And it’s always a pleasure to sit and talk with you, and I thank you for keeping your promise as we were in the Rose Garden at an African visit and you said, yes, we will do this. And today, as we are conducting this interview, we’ve got a lot of news going on. Not the obvio...

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Farewell Ceremony for Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 18, 2008 SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. Well, this is really a bittersweet moment for me. David, could you manage to come up where you can be seen? (Laughter.) There we are. I think many of you now know that we are saying goodbye to David Welch as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. David is, simply put, one of the finest Foreign Service officers of...

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Briefing En Route Jerusalem Secretary Condoleezza Rice Shannon, Ireland September 18, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: (In progress) how they see that. The trip is short in large part because I have to return to the United States because, as you know, the United Nations General Assembly will start this weekend. And at the General Assembly there will be a number of meetings that relate directly to the work that we’re doing on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. There will be a Quartet meeting. I’ll have a cha...

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Remarks With Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and MCC Chief Executive Officer Ambassador John Danilovich at the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact Signing Ceremony With the Kingdom of Lesotho Secretary Condoleezza Rice Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC July 23, 2007 View Video AMBASSADOR DANILOVICH: Good afternoon to you all. The Right Honorable the Prime Minister Mr. Pakalitha Mosisili, Secretary Rice, Congressman Payne, Chairman of the Africa Subcommittee, thank you very much for comin...

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Interview on CBS's Face the Nation with John Roberts Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC December 29, 2002 MR. ROBERTS:   Good morning to you, Mr. Secretary.     SECRETARY POWELL:   Good morning, John.   MR. ROBERTS:   The administration has been very careful not to characterize the North Korean situation as a crisis, yet here we have a country and a leader who possesses at least two nuclear weapons, he's restarted a plutonium extraction plant, he's threatening to rest...

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