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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC July 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry of Egypt. As we all know, Egypt has been undergoing extraordinary challenges in these last years with the popular uprising that took place a number of years ago in Tahrir Square now famous – Egypt opted for change. The problem is there are terrorists who do not want to allow that change to take place, people who are c...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State 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 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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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Lake Garden Hotel Naypyitaw, Burma August 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank President Thein Sein for his government’s warm welcome here during the course of this conference, for his leadership as chair of ASEAN, and for serving as the United States-ASEAN country coordinator. Burma has made a significant amount of progress over the course of the last years, and when I was last here in 1999, I visited with Aung San S...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC June 3, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I’ve got two comments I want to make at the top here before welcoming Foreign Minister Sikorski as I will and want to, and then look forward to your questions on that. But this morning, I’m thinking, as all of us from the Senate family are, of the passing of one of our own, Senator Frank Lautenberg. I was privil...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State University of Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia May 26, 2013 MS. BADWI: Hello. I am Zenab Badwi. Welcome to this Hardtalk Special, coming to you from the University of Addis Ababa with the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. As the African Union celebrates 50 years, many are hoping that this golden jubilee will mark a new golden era for Africa. We have invited an audience of young Africans to put their questions on U.S. foreign policy to John Kerry, and we also hav...
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Op-Ed Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy The New York Times October 24, 2012 IT has been 21 years since Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union. Since then, Ukrainians have made much progress on reforming and modernizing their country. Ukraine has also become an important partner on a number of pressing global and regional issues, from nuclear nonproliferation to food security and the...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Rangoon, Burma December 2, 2011 Well, good afternoon. And Mingalaba . (Laughter.) I am delighted to be here in one of our new Embassy buildings on an old site where people have been working on behalf of the United States and our relationship here for many years. I want to thank Chargé Michael Thurston, DCM Eleanor Nagy, the whole Embassy team, all of you, including those who came from other posts to help work toward and implement this visit, becau...
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Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Rangoon, Burma December 2, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, let me begin by saying that as the first American Secretary of State to visit here in over 50 years, I am delighted to have a chance to reflect on my visit and what we would like to see going forward. Now, before I arrived, I was well aware that Americans have long known this country as a place of both beauty and tragedy. Our imaginations have been seized by golden pagodas, saffron-clad ...
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Townhall Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State National Museum of the Philippines Manila, Philippines November 16, 2011 MR. SEVERINO: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my great honor to introduce the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. (Applause.) MS. MORALES: Thank you so much (inaudible) come here. This is your microphone. Do you need help with that? I guess you’re very used to that. (Laughter.) It’s quite big, bigger than the usual. (Laughter.) MR. SEVERINO: Well, good afternoon,...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ritz Carlton Hotel Manama, Bahrain December 3, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good evening, Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Highnesses, ministers, ambassadors, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great pleasure for me to join you this year for the seventh annual Manama Dialogue. And I want to congratulate the International Institute for Strategic Studies for the vision of this Dialogue and for convening what I am sure will be another thought-provoking c...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State National Museum Manama, Bahrain December 3, 2010 MODERATOR ONE: Madam Secretary, welcome to Bahrain. It’s an honor to have you here. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, and thank you for hosting this wonderful event. And thanks to all of you for being here at the museum for this discussion. I’m very much looking forward to it. I think that – you may know this is my first trip to your country, but already I am feeling very much at home. So I h...
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Remarks Treaty Room Washington, DC November 23, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. And it’s a particular delight for me to welcome the Bulgarian delegation and especially Foreign Minister Zheleva, who has come to this position with a great background in academia and a great commitment to democracy. And it’s such a historic time for Europe and for the Euro-Atlantic alliance. This year we are commemorating the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. And that helped put Bulgaria o...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Foreign Press Center Washington, DC May 19, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon, everyone. It’s a real pleasure to be here with you today. We believe that a free press is an integral part of our democracy. And as I said earlier this month on World Press Freedom Day, President Obama and I are determined to continue the United States’ commitment to media freedom worldwide. And I’m very proud of the State Department’s long t...
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Interview With Robert McMahon of Council on Foreign Relations Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 18, 2008 QUESTION: Okay. So, Secretary Rice, the town is pretty much abuzz over inauguration planning, and I’d like to go back to the last inauguration, where the President issued a pretty bold statement and a bold program about democracy promotion, especially in the Middle East. And you were very much involved in that early on. Nowadays, we hear less of it, although I know you’ve...
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Interview With Josef Joffe of Die Zeit Newspaper Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 20, 2007 QUESTION: Here's number one. Zbig Brzezinski has formulated the central paradox of American foreign policy; never has American power been that high, never its authority and legitimacy so low. Do you agree? SECRETARY RICE: No. QUESTION: Why not? SECRETARY RICE: Because I see -- QUESTION: He was a predecessor. SECRETARY RICE: Yeah -- no, he wasn't my predecessor -- oh, at the NSC. QUESTION: At -- o...
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Remarks with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov After 2+2 Meetings Secretary Condoleezza Rice Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moscow, Russia October 12, 2007 View Video FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Dear colleagues, the meeting of foreign ministers and defense ministers in the forum of the so-called 2+2 was held in accordance with instruction by the two presidents. This instruction by the presidents was dictated by...
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Interview with Larry Kudlow of Kudlow & Company on CNBC Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC October 9, 2007 QUESTION: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, thank you very much, ma'am, for coming back on Kudlow & Company. SECRETARY RICE: Good to be with you. QUESTION: All right. Madame Secretary, there's a couple of front page story news items this morning that are worth tracking down. One of them -- I mean, we're a financial network. Qatar -- the oil minister of Qatar is saying that oil sho...
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Briefing En Route Andrews Air Force Base Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Andrews Air Force Base September 20, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: I thought it was a very useful, productive day and a half. It would have been very good to be able to stay longer but I obviously have to get back for the United Nations General Assembly. And I expect to have a number of meetings at the United Nations General Assembly that relate to the work that we're doing to support the Israeli-Palestinian bilateral track and also to ...
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Interview With Zain Verjee, CNN Secretary Condoleezza Rice Potsdam, Germany May 30, 2007 QUESTION: Secretary Rice, lovely to be with you here. SECRETARY RICE: Good to be with you. QUESTION: Such an historic place. SECRETARY RICE: Historic and just beautiful. QUESTION: You're looking at a third round of sanctions on Iran, but yet Iran is showing no sign of suspending uranium enrichment. What makes you think that a third round of sanctions is really going to make a...
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Interview With Greta Van Susteren of Fox News Secretary Condoleezza Rice Simi Valley, California May 23, 2007 (12:10 p.m. EST) QUESTION: Madame Secretary, nice to see you. SECRETARY RICE: Nice to see you, Greta. QUESTION: What a beautiful environment, the Reagan Library. SECRETARY RICE: It's fantastic; great history, great person. It's wonderful to be here. QUESTION: What brings you here? SECRETARY RICE: Well, I am such an admirer of Ronald Reagan and of course, of Nancy Reagan as well, and she had been...
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Remarks With Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer at the Ronald Reagan Library Secretary Condoleezza Rice Simi Valley, California May 23, 2007 View Video (2:00 p.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Mrs. Reagan has been a wonderful supporter and friend. Thank you for that, Mrs. Reagan. But she and the man that she called Ronnie shared a truly special relationship, and we here in America are gaining a fuller portrait of that affection. President Reagan's diaries have just been released and published, and in t...
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Joint Press Conference with President Islam Karimov Secretary Colin L. Powell Tashkent, Uzbekistan December 8, 2001 PRESIDENT KARIMOV: Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Secretary Powell to Uzbekistan and through him to convey my great respect to President Bush and to American people. We have just had a very open and candid exchange of views on the issues pertaining to bilateral relations as well as to the situation with the antiterrorist operation. If you think that we focused ...
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Remarks on Trip to Asia Secretary Colin L. Powell Press Briefing On Board Aircraft En Route to Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you for joining us on this long trip. Five countries in just a few days� time, with not a lot of lingering in anywhere except in Hanoi for the major conferences that I will be attending. I have been looking forward to this trip�my first trip to Asia. A chance to visit, not only the important countries in the region, countries that we have alliances with as wel...
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Remarks to the Press Following Trip to Africa and Hungary Secretary Colin L. Powell Press availability En route to Washington, DC, from Hungary May 30, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: (In progress) The action is back in New York. I am encouraged that there is general agreement, and I want to say that again -- general agreement -- that the way we have been applying the sanctions, in recent times, have lost some of their effectiveness and it's wise to look at a change. The difficulty, of course, is in the details,...
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Remarks at the University of Witwatersrand Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa May 25, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me start by saying that I am deeply honored to receive a copy of your bill of rights, modeled in the fashion of our Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights represented the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, and the very first of those Amendments was the right of fre...
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Prepared Statement for the Record on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC May 15, 2001 As Delivered As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002. This Budget represents a needed increase in the Dep...
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Prepared Testimony on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Other Programs Washington, DC May 10, 2001 [As Delivered] As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President�s International Affairs Budget for FY 2002. This Budget represents a needed increase in...
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