Informal Communication

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Austin, Texas

The University of Texas at Austin

MR EDGAR:  All right.  Welcome, everyone.  Please, if you haven’t already, take your seats, and we’ll begin the program shortly.  My name is Paul Edgar, and I am the interim executive director of the Clements Center for National Security.  On behalf of the Clements Center and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, welcome to a conversation on the state of foreign aff

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Regions: Argentina, Canada , China, Colombia , Mexico , Russia , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Western Hemisphere

Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Alice Albright

iKiribati President Taneti Maamau

Washington, DC

Treaty Room

MS ALBRIGHT:  Hello.  Thank you all so much for joining us, and I thank with deep appreciation the Government of Kiribati for partnering with the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Specifically, I want to recognize all of our friends, officials from the Government of Kiribati, who have joined us here today, i

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Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Treaties and International Agreements

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Franklin Room

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone.

Every day, thousands of American diplomats and development experts dedicate themselves to advancing the interests and representing the values of the American people.

Their service often comes with risk – both for our Foreign and Civil Service officers, and also at times for the loved ones who accompany them to posts around the world.

And

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Regions: Russia

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  It’s great to be with you all today.  I’m here one more time, proudly, to talk about freedom and free societies.  And while America is not a perfect nation by any means, we always strive towards that more perfect union, trying to improve.  We remain the greatest nation in the history of civilization.

One of the good things that we do in this adm

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Regions: Albania , Burma , China, Denmark , France , Greenland , Iran , Iraq , Libya , Mali , Nigeria , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Suriname , United Kingdom , United States , Uzbekistan , Western Hemisphere

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs