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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France January 15, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Look, I – first of all, I am grateful to the French for being willing to host the conference and I appreciate and respect their moral engagement and passion with the issue of peace, which I know matters to them deeply. And I think that – I really do believe that it is important that 70 nations, particularly – well, entities, but mostly nations – came together to reinforce the two-state solution ...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. President, good morning, and good morning to all of our colleagues here on the United Nations Security Council. I want to thank my colleague from New Zealand particularly for hosting this very important session on the crisis in Syria. And I think it’s appropriate that we are gathering here a couple of rooms over from where yesterday so many heads of state came together in what I ...
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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 President Wilson Hotel Geneva, Switzerland May 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. I’m very appreciative to Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy to Syria, for his tremendous work and his efforts over the last months to help to bring life to a political process in the midst of a conflict that is in many ways out of control and deeply disturbing to everybody in the world, I hope. The cessation of hostilities that we were able to neg...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Wilson Hotel Geneva, Switzerland May 1, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: So let me just say quickly that I’m delighted to be with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh of Jordan, and we will be talking about not just Syria and the cessation of hostilities but a number of other regional topics, but I think we both want to emphasize the seriousness of the situation with respect to the cessation of hostilities. And we are talking directly with the Russians even now. The hope is tha...
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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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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State International Media Center Hiroshima, Japan April 11, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Konnichiwa . I am very privileged to be here, and I want to thank Foreign Minister Kishida and the Government of Japan for hosting us here in Hiroshima for the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of 2016. I also want to thank our terrific Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and her entire team for their hard work and for what they are accomplishing in strengthen...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Embassy Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq April 8, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon everybody, and thank you for your patience. I really appreciate it. I have had a very productive series of conversations, a day of meetings here in Baghdad. And I want to thank Prime Minister Abadi, Foreign Minister Jaafari, Speaker Jibouri, and KRG Prime Minister Barzani, all of them, for the time they gave today, for the serious conversations we had, and for their par...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter in progress) – group works, six group works in different issues, and with regard to the defense of the GCC countries against any attack and how to counterattack the – and how to deal with the challenges in the region whether in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya. And we reviewed the peace efforts and the Palestine issue. Also we reviewed the efforts to counter t...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Kremlin Moscow, Russia March 24, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Distinguished colleagues, we are beginning the press conference of the ministers of foreign affairs here of the Russian Federation and the U.S. FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, today the State – the Secretary of State of the U.S. have had a day of negotiations in the Russian capital. First, we had a long meeting in the ministry of foreign affairs, and now, th...
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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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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC February 24, 2016 Well, thank you, Madam Chairman and Ranking Member Lowey and Mr. Chairman Rogers of the full committee, all the members, thank you very much. My apologies for being late. I had a phone call that came in that I had to take at the last minute, and I apologize for keeping any of you waiting. Look, I want to just start by saying we really appreciate your tr...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy February 2, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon. Welcome to our press conference of the ministerial summit of the small group of the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh. Minister Gentiloni and Secretary of State Kerry will make some brief statements, and then you’ll have a chance to ask some questions. Minister Gentiloni, you have the floor. FOREIGN MINISTER GENTILONI: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon, everyon...
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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom January 14, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Foreign Minister, are you prepared to resume Syria’s support group cooperation with Iran? FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: We never left the Syria support group meeting. Our relationship with Iran is separate from the relationship with everybody else in terms of the Syria cooperation group. Our objective is to work through the process that was started in Vienna in order to arrive at a peaceful settlement based o...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State New York, NY December 18, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for coming. First of all, I want to express again my appreciation and the appreciation of all of the P5 members of the International Syria Support Group who worked through the day, and I appreciate Foreign Minister Lavrov’s engagement and his commitment to trying to get to a place that everybody could be comfortable. What we’ve achieved today is ...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State New York, NY December 18, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. Secretary-General, Special Envoy de Mistura, distinguished colleagues, I want to begin by thanking the other P4 members who joined together to help fashion this resolution and who spent time this morning working with our colleagues in order to bring us here this afternoon, plus our non-P4 member, Germany, for whom we are very grateful for their participation also. I want to thank all the members of the council for ...
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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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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State The Hague, Netherlands March 31, 2009 View Video QUESTION: So on the conference today, the Afghan delegation and some of the people that we’ve heard from the Afghan delegation were talking about the fact that President Karzai didn’t stay to have a press conference as had been suggested he was going to do. I noticed that in his speech, he thanked almost everybody, except Ban Ki-moon before he thanked the U.S. He mentioned everybody else&rsqu...
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Remarks Following the OSCE Ministerial Council Secretary Colin L. Powell Bucharest, Romania December 4, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, distinguished colleagues, it is a pleasure to be in Bucharest for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Ministerial Council. Foreign Minister Geoana, I welcome this occasion to thank you here in your home for your outstanding leadership over the past year of our work. I also want to take a point of privilege at this time ...
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Remarks On Financial Aspects of Terrorism at Office of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Secretary Colin L. Powell Vienna, Virginia November 7, 2001 (2:05 p.m. EST) SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be out here this afternoon. And, Mr. President, Secretary O'Neill, Attorney General Ashcroft and Mr. Sloan, I also add my congratulations to the earlier speakers for the wonderful work that is being done here. It is a pleasure to be here really because, with ...
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