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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC January 5, 2017 Introduction When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and had a diminished standing with many of our allies and partners around the world. The starting point for this Presidency was one of the toughest I have ever seen in my decades of public service. Over the past eight years, President Ob...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC August 1, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. Buenas tardes . I am delighted to be joined by my friend and my colleague Foreign Minister Maria Holguin of the Republic of Colombia. And we have been delighted over the course of the last day and a half or so to be engaged in the sixth session of the U.S.-Colombia High-Level Partnership Dialogue. It is underway here at the department, and I think Maria Angela woul...
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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The Boston Globe December 29, 2015 [ Spanish | Arabic | French ] One reason for the remarkable record of the New England Patriots is the team’s single-minded focus on the next game. Managing world affairs requires the same concentration on future challenges, for past accomplishments provide no guarantee of continued success. They can, however, lend confidence that, with the right preparation and effort, positive results will follow. As one year gives...
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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The Boston Globe December 29, 2015 Artículo de opinión - Fin de Año – para el Boston Globe Por el Secretario de Estado, John Kerry En la medida que un año da paso al siguiente, los líderes internacionales tienen la oportunidad de sentar base sobre los variados e importantes logros alcanzados en 2015. De ellos, ninguno es más importante que el reciente acuerdo global en París para evitar los efectos más noci...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Park Hyatt Washington Washington, DC October 20, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I have to get back at some people now big time. (Laughter.) First of all, David and Foreign Policy , thank you so – I am so grateful for this and frankly overwhelmed by it. I don’t think I’ve ever sat somewhere and have somebody talk except maybe at the Democratic Convention, and we know that’s all politics, right? (Laughter.) But I’m really touched by it. Let ...
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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 17, 2014 Also available in Spanish . I was a seventeen year old kid watching on a black and white television set when I first heard an American President talk of Cuba as an "imprisoned island.” For five and a half decades since, our policy toward Cuba has remained virtually frozen, and done little to promote a prosperous, democratic and stable Cuba. Not only has this policy failed to advance America's goals, it has actu...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bogota, Colombia August 12, 2013 MODERATOR: (Via Interpreter) Good afternoon. The meeting between Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, and the Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Maria Angela Holguin, Minister of Foreign Affairs has just concluded. FOREIGN MINISTER HOLGUIN: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon to all of you. First of all, I should like to extend a welcome to John Kerry, Secretary of State, on his visit to Colombia. And we are very grateful to him ...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic October 5, 2011 Panel Speakers: United Nations ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza International Development Bank Vice President Steven Puig Moderator: Juan Carlos Lopez, CNN MR. LOPEZ: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon, my name is Juan Carlos Lopez from CNN en Espanol and it is an honor to join you in this meeting of Pa...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Presidential Palace San Salvador, El Salvador June 1, 2009 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, we are present at the (inaudible) of the president of the republic Mr. Mauricio Funes, accompanied by Madame Secretary of State of the United States of America Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. We shall hear the declaration from the president of the Republic of El Salvador, Mr. Mauricio Funes. You may be seated. PRESIDENT FUNES: ...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic April 17, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you so much. Thank you, Rodolfo Espinal. I appreciate very much your serving as our moderator today. This is an exciting venture here at FUNGLODE, the Global Democracy and Development Foundation, which is hosting us in Santo Domingo. We are connected online from Brazil and Peru to Mexico, Jamaica, and far beyond even our hemisphere. I am personally honored that President Fer...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic April 17, 2009 PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ: (In Spanish.) SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Mr. President. And I greatly enjoyed our visit last night over dinner and then again this morning in our important meeting. I also wish to thank your foreign minister and other ministers and officials of your government for their cooperation and partnership on this visit, but, of course, in so many other ways. I am delighted to be b...
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Print Roundtable Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC July 9, 2007 (11:00 a.m. EST) QUESTION: Maribel Hastings with La Opinion . Nice to meet you. Madame Secretary, my question is on immigration. It's an important issue for the Americas as well and I was wondering is the Administration -- or does the Administration have any plans to (inaudible) this issue after the bill's demise in the Senate? SECRETARY RICE: Well, obviously, it was a disappointment to see what happened to the immigration bill, bec...
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Interview With the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 8, 2007 QUESTION: So this is on the record and -- please, do you want to start? SECRETARY RICE: I do. QUESTION: All right. I wonder if you'd talk a little bit about Iran and particularly what the strategy of the Administration is regarding both the nuclear program and the internal dynamics inside Iran. Because at least from our vantage point, it does seem that you're sending mixed signals, seeking a...
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Interview With Alexandra Ciniglio of CNN Español Secretary Condoleezza Rice Panama City, Panama June 4, 2007 QUESTION: (In Spanish.) In view of recent events in Venezuela and the fact that the Inter-American Democratic Charter requires respect for freedom of expression among other democratic bodies, what actions should the OAS take and what happens if nothing happens? SECRETARY RICE: Well, today we had a very good discussion of the importance of democracy and freedom of expression. The Inter-Demo...
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Interview With Pablo Gato of Telemundo Secretary Condoleezza Rice Panama City, Panama June 4, 2007 QUESTION: First of all, obviously there has been a very tense session, to put it mildly, today at the OAS. The Venezuelan Foreign Minister made first some accusations against the United States saying that immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border are treated like or hunted down like animals. He says that the U.S. is basically showing hypocrisy and even went beyond saying that it reminds him of the likes of Hitl...
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Remarks En Route Panama City, Panama Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Panama City, Panama June 4, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: I'm looking forward to this General Assembly meeting of the Organization of the American States. I think it's extremely important that this is an organization which I frankly think has done more and more good work. It's been particularly lively the last couple of years. I think that Jose Miguel Insulza has given good leadership to the organization. It's been active in Haiti. The Inte...
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Briefing En Route Madrid, Spain Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Madrid, Spain June 1, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. Okay, Helene's still in the middle of her breakfast. (Laughter.) So is Glenn. Yeah, the Times and the Post are competing, as usual. So I'll just take your questions. QUESTION: Did you see anything positive coming out of the Solana-Larijani meetings yesterday? There seemed to be some somewhat conflicting accounts of their own afterward as to whether they made any progress. SECRETAR...
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Interview On TVE with Lorenzo Mila Secretary Condoleezza Rice Madrid, Spain June 1, 2007 QUESTION: (Via interpreter) Secretary Rice, in Spain, many people think that relations between the two countries, U.S. and Spain, cooled down when President Zapatero pulled out the troops -- the Spanish troops -- in Iraq. This is a first visit of a high-level representative of the U.S. Government to Spain in three years. Does this visit mean the relations between the two countries are warming up? SECRETARY RICE: Wel...
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Press Availability With Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos Secretary Condoleezza Rice Madrid, Spain June 1, 2007 FOREIGN MINISTER MORATINOS: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon. Thank you for being here at this press conference on the occasion of the official visit by the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Spain. I would like to use this opportunity to thank Condi Rice for coming here to Madrid, to Spain, because I think that this for the government, for Spanish society as a whole, the ...
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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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Briefing En Route Berlin, Germany Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Berlin, Germany May 29, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: Well, we're off for a G-8 meeting and as is the custom with these G-8 meetings, it really gives an opportunity for foreign ministers both to preview what the heads of state will be doing at the G-8 starting on June the 6th, but also it's almost always the case that we spend a good deal of time on whatever the major issues are of the day. So I would expect that we'll talk about Darfur, about...
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