Search Results: Wallis and Futuna Islands (7)
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
New York City, New York
Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you all very much. I have to say, it’s a little bit humbling to speak after Jason, who has been an extraordinary profile in courage, an extraordinary profile in absolute determination to move all of us to a better place on this issue that in so many ways is, for me, one of the most profound things that I have to deal with in my job. And I su
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Regions: Canada , Iran , Russia , United Kingdom , United States
Topics: Energy
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Arlington, VA
Foreign Service Institute, George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center
MS NOYES: Good morning and welcome. My name is Julieta Valls Noyes and I am the acting director of the Foreign Service Institute.
Secretary Blinken, it’s a pleasure to welcome you back to FSI. As you saw outside, we are in the process – or final stages of constructing a new building here on campus. It will hou
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Regions: Afghanistan, India , United Kingdom , United States
Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Treaty Room
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I’d like to say a few words about an extraordinary leader and a great man whom we lost today, Colin Powell. Secretary Powell was beloved here at the State Department – at C Street – and at our embassies and consulates around the world. He came to the State Department after a long and extraordinary career in the U.S. Armed Forces. He was General Powell, former chairman o
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Regions: Korea, South , United States
Topics: Treaties and International Agreements
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Doha, Qatar
St. Regis Hotel
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, two decades, trillions of dollars, thousands of lives. Was it how it should have been ended?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I think that’s the question I’m sure that we’ll be asking and answering for some time to come. But there are a few important things here. First, we have to start with why we went to Afghanistan in the first place, and that was after 9/11 to dea
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Regions: Afghanistan, United Kingdom
Topics: Countering Terrorism, Human Rights and Democracy
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Mayflower Hotel
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Thank you all very, very much. It is actually wonderful to be in a room with real people – (laughter) – with friends, with colleagues and without masks too. So in and of itself, that’s a very positive thing.
But there is a lot to be positive about today, and it starts with the remarkable work of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, esp
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Regions: China, Japan , Russia , United Kingdom , United States
Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
C Street Lobby Harry S Truman Building
AMBASSADOR SMITH: Good morning, everyone, and welcome. It is my honor and privilege today to welcome back to the Department of State our new Secretary of State Tony Blinken. Secretary Blinken is a familiar face in these halls having served previously first in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs and most recently as Deputy Secretary of State. He is, as we say in the
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Regions: Canada , United States
Topics: Climate and Environment, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
KING DAVID HOTEL
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: We just had a very intimate and productive conversation overlooking the walls of Jerusalem, and it reminded me of how deep and profound your tie is to the Jewish state. I gave you a Bible as a gift, and I said that the people of the book have not had a better friend, and I mean it. And I want to also express my appreciation for our personal friendship and everything
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Regions: France , Iran , Israel , Lebanon , United Kingdom , United States
Topics: Countering Terrorism, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy