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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Dean Steinberg, Jim, thank you for the honor of joining the SAIS community to help inaugurate this truly magnificent new home.
Jim has contributed so much over his remarkable career, but his most lasting contribution is the generation of thinkers, the generation of d
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Meadows Resort
MS MITCHELL: Good morning, everyone. It’s wonderful to be back in Aspen, and especially after such a great program all week, and most especially to be with Secretary Blinken.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you.
MS MITCHELL: Tony Blinken, of course, you all know, but – (applause) – I think this is your first time here since becoming Secretary.
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Thank you all so much for joining. It’s very good to be with friends and partners from around the world as we prepare to open the second Summit for Democracy.
In his first year in office, President Biden launched the summit to look at the future of democracy, which we see is at an inflection point. Worldwide, we see autocrats violating human right
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Four Seasons Hotel
MR BARKER: (In progress) at this somewhat busy time. So we need to start, I think, on the tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Presidents Biden and Putin have just finished a virtual call. You’ve talked in the past about your deep concerns about Russia’s renewed plans for aggression in Ukraine with obviously a lot of troops massed at the border.
After this call, are you more or less
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Bogotá, Colombia
Grand Hyatt Hotel
MR GALLO: Good morning, everyone. Buenos dias casi tardes. We are live from Bogotá, Colombia. We are here with Mr. Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State of the United States of America. My name is Luis Gallo. I’m a Colombian American journalist. It’s an honor to be here with all of y’all. Hello, Mr. Secretary. Welcome to Colombia today.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you.
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Paris, France
OECD
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. Just a special pleasure to be with my good friend and colleague, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. We have been working very, very closely together these past nine months, and in particular, besides our work here at the OECD, Luigi, very much looking forward to continuing to work on the Italian G20 presidency and the vital work that you and Italy are doing to le
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Rome, Italy
Villa Taverna
QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, Russia is considered the mind of cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns that try to destabilize Western democracies. What is, in your opinion, the goal of Moscow? And what – which is the best way to fight?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, it’s hard to say what Russia’s goal is because it’s hard to put oneself in – necessarily the mind of Russian leade
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Rome, Italy
Fiera Roma
MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Rome for this very important ministerial conference. I will hand over right away to Minister Di Maio and Secretary of State Blinken for their opening remarks, and then we’ll take some questions from you.
FOREIGN MINISTER DI MAIO: (Via interpreter) Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for h
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Berlin, Germany
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FOREIGN MINISTER MAAS: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the federal foreign office. A very warm welcome to Berlin, dear Tony, or rather, welcome back. After all, weren’t you in Europe only last week? And during that visit, President Biden and your delegation underlined impressively that America is back, back on the international and multilateral scene, and we’re ex
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Wendy R. Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State
Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Director of the German Marshall Fund
Irene Braam, Executive Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation
Provided courtesy of the German Marshall Fund
Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Paris office: Good afternoon, and good morning to all of you who are joining us from both sides of the Atlantic. I am Alexandra De Hoop Scheffer, director o
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
En Route to Shannon, Ireland
SECRETARY POMPEO: Greetings, everyone.
QUESTION: Hello.
SECRETARY POMPEO: How are you all?
QUESTION: Hello.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Well, that was a – I thought it was a great trip. We accomplished just about everything we were hoping to do. We were back in Europe leading from the front this time, talking about s
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
QUESTION: Joining me right now with his reaction and the state of affairs right now between the U.S. and China is U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Mr. Secretary, it’s great to have you this morning. Thanks very much for being here.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Maria, it’s great to be with you this morning on this important topic.
QUESTION: So I want to start with the U.S. sancti
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. I want to start by marking – yeah, good morning. Good to see some new – James, great to see you back.
QUESTION: Likewise.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Welcome. I want to start by marking two anniversaries. First, on July 11th, the United States and Vietnam celebrated the 25th anniversary of the establishment of
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
On behalf of the United States Government and the American people, I congratulate the Italian people on the 74th Anniversary of the founding of the Italian Republic.
More than 20 million Americans, including myself, can trace their roots back to Italy, and Italian-Americans have made important contributions to every facet of American life. I fondly remember the hospitality of the Italian people during my trip to Italy in October 2019. I esp
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for joining me this morning.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, Maria. Thanks for having me on.
QUESTION: What can the administration do to create calm, to calm things down this morning?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Let me begin, first of all, by expressing my personal condolences to Mr. Floyd’s family and all the pe
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