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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 1, 2016 On World AIDS Day, we commemorate the lives lost and communities devastated by HIV/AIDS. We also celebrate those lives that have been saved and the courageous individuals who have brought hope and healing to those living with and affected by this disease. Thirty-five years ago, the first published report appeared of five previously healthy men in Los Angeles diagnosed with what soon would be known as AIDS. I have been engaged ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Eisenhower Executive Office Building Washington, DC December 1, 2014 Susan, thank you.  Thank you for a wonderfully generous introduction and thank you most importantly for your extremely important comments this morning.  And I was really sitting there thinking, as I was listening to you, the thought was occurring to me as we think of the challenges that we face in today’s world, and you were talking about both the moral compulsion of doing this as w...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC October 17, 2014 Thank you, Nancy. Good morning, everybody. Thank you very much for being here, and thank you, Ambassador Powell, for all you’re doing to lead on this effort. I know that there’s no shortage of demands on all of your time, so we really do appreciate and I know President Obama appreciates your coming in here this morning for this very important briefing. And I’m particularly grateful to Nancy Pow...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Capitol Washington, DC October 30, 2013 Speaker Boehner, Leader Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, and Leader McConnell, distinguished guests all, thank you to the leadership of the Congress for making this possible and bringing us all together today to celebrate our remarkable guest of honor – regal, resplendent, this incredible bust of Sir Winston Churchill. Sizing up this famous and inimitable expression forever now captured in bronze and forever here in th...

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Address John Kerry Secretary of State University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA February 20, 2013 Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . Thank you. Thank you very, very much. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for an extraordinarily warm welcome, Charlottesville. I am really honored to be here. Senator Tim Kaine, thank you very, very much for your generous words of introduction. Tim, as he mentioned, has only been on the Foreign Relations Committee, I guess now for a total of a few week...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC November 29, 2012 Thank you all very much. Oh my goodness. Thank you. I think we could just end the program right now. (Laughter.) Florence, thank you. Thank you for continuing to be a smiling advocate on behalf of an AIDS-free generation. And congratulations on those two sons of yours, who are the strongest evidence of what we can achieve. I’m very grateful to you for sharing your energy, your story, and your ...

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Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC November 25, 2011 Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are reminded of the horrific acts of violence against women that take place every day around the world and pledge to recommit ourselves to changing attitudes and ending all forms of violence against women and girls. Gender-based violence is a global pandemic that cuts across all borders and impacts all peoples and societies – r...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State National Institutes of Health's Masur Auditorium Bethesda November 8, 2011 Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. And it is, for me, a distinct personal pleasure to be back here at NIH, a set of institutions that I admire so much and which are so critically important not only to our own country and to the future of science here but indeed around the world. I want to begin by thanking Francis Collins for his leadership and for the work that he has don...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Georgetown University's Gaston Hall Washington, DC December 14, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. It is wonderful being back here at Georgetown in this magnificent Gaston Hall, and to give you something to do during exam week. (Laughter.) It’s one of those quasi-legitimate reasons for taking a break – (laughter) – which I’m very happy to have provided. I want to thank Jas for his introductory remarks, and clearly, those of you wh...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Eisenhower Executive Office Building Washington, DC November 30, 2009 [Editor's note: The video for this event includes opening remarks by Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, followed by Secretary Clinton, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius; Ambassador Eric P. Goosby, MD, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator ; Dr. Elly Katabira, President-elect, Internation...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State St. Joseph's School Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo August 10, 2009 MS. BAROANI : (Via interpreter) Mrs. Secretary, Mr. Dikembe Mutombo, dear friends from the international and local press and dear friends of the students of Kinshasa, good afternoon. (Inaudible) good afternoon. AUDIENCE: (Inaudible.) MS. BAROANI: (Via interpreter) It is an honor for Search for Common Ground to be able to welcome you. That Mrs. Clinton is here in this room toda...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Phya Thai Palace Bangkok, , Thailand July 22, 2009 View Video at The Nation MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Applause.) SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you. MODERATOR: And the host of today’s event is Nation’s group editor Mr. Suttichai Yoon and Nation’s channel editor, Ms. Veenarat Laohapakakul. QUESTION: Good morning, everyone. Of course, everyone has been waiting f...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Delhi University New Delhi, India July 20, 2009 DR. PENTAL: Colleagues, guests, students, ladies and gentlemen, we have a very distinguished personality – in fact, if I dare may say, a global citizen amongst us today, Ms. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America.   Madame, we at the University of Delhi are indeed honored and feel highly privileged that in spite of your very busy schedule, you have spared your valuabl...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium March 6, 2009 PRESIDENT PÖTTERING: Madame Secretary, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it’s really a great pleasure, as well as an honor, to welcome you here today to the European Parliament. Yours is the most high-ranking visit from the United States of America since President Ronald Reagan joined us in 1985. (Applause.) Madame Secretary, the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has given new hope ...

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Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC January 13, 2009 Thank you, Senator Schumer, for your generous introduction, and even more for your support and our partnership over so many years. You are a valued and trusted colleague, a friend, and a tribute to the people of New York whom you have served with such distinction throughout your career. Mr. Chairman, I offer my congratulations as you take o...

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World AIDS Day 2007 Statement by Secretary Condoleezza Rice World AIDS Day 2007 Washington, DC November 30, 2007 The HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the worst tragedies the world has seen. On World AIDS Day we remember the more than 20 million people who have died from AIDS and reaffirm our support for the over 33 million people who are currently living with HIV. It is also important to recognize all of the dedicated men and women around the world working to prevent new HIV/AIDS infections, treat those peop...

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Remarks at World AIDS Day 2002 Event Secretary Colin L. Powell Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC December 3, 2002 [(11:10 a.m. EST) Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Paula. And good morning ladies and gentlemen, your excellencies, Director O'Neill, Dr. Feachum, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Ben Franklin Room and to the Department of State. My colleague Secretary Thompson and I are pleased to co-host this distinguished gathering of the diplomatic community in recognition of World AIDS ...

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United Nations Association of the USA Visionaries Awards Dinner Honoring United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan Secretary Colin L. Powell National Building Museum Washington, DC November 12, 2002 (9:00 p.m. EST) Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. And thank you, Phil, for that very kind and generous introduction. It is, indeed, a great pleasure for Alma and for me to be here this evening as you honor a dear friend of mine of a number of years' duration, Kofi Annan. And I am especially privil...

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World AIDS Day Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC November 29, 2001 [ video ] The theme of this year's World AIDS Day is "I care. Do you?" The answer of President Bush and the American people is a resounding "Yes." We care and we are taking action, here at home and within the international community. At the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in June, the United States joined with countries of every continent, culture and creed. We declared our collective resolve to stem the wor...

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Remarks at the 2001 Africare Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner Secretary Colin L. Powell Hilton Washington Hotel Washington, DC November 6, 2001 9:00 P.M. EST SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you so very much, ladies and gentlemen for that warm welcome. Alma and I are indeed very, very pleased to be with you this evening on this special occasion, as every Africare dinner is a special occasion, and a special privilege to be in the company of the Walker family and to celebrate the life of Bishop Walker once ag...

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40th Anniversary Celebration of the United States Agency for International Development Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to USAID Employees Washington, DC November 2, 2001 Thank you very much, Andrew, for that kind introduction. I am so pleased to be here. I didn't know there were this many people over here at USAID. You've got more here than I have at the State Department. And that's the way it ought to be. (Applause.) I am not sure if by law technically I am your boss; you are an independent agency. (...

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Remarks to African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC October 29, 2001 [ audio ] SECRETARY POWELL: Well, thank you very much, Walter. And, once again, greetings to all of you. And it is a great pleasure to have you all here. I also want to thank Walter for the superb work that he has done in helping to pull this conference together, together with so many others who worked on it. I'm very pleased especially to have Jendaye Frasier here from the National Security Cou...

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Address at United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS Secretary Colin L. Powell United Nations General Assembly New York City, New York June 25, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, I commend you and Ambassador Wensley, Ambassador Ka, and Dr. Piot of UNAIDS for pioneering this Special Session of the General Assembly. This will go down as an historic moment in the history of the United Nations. Ladies and gentlemen, the world has entered an age of immense promise. The spread of de...

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Programs to Support Uganda's Fight Against HIV/AIDS Secretary Colin L. Powell AIDS Support Organization, Mulago Hospital Kampala, Uganda May 27, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Thank you Mr. Ambassador. I know I speak for my wife, Alma, and all the other members of my delegation here when I thank everyone who made this afternoon possible for us. It was indeed a moving experience to see the performers, it was a deeply moving experience to see the dedicated women, it was a...

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Interview on e-tv Secretary Colin L. Powell Interview on e-tv Pretoria, South Africa May 25, 2001 MR. REDDY: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you for inviting me. MR. REDDY: There was hardly a mention of Africa during last year's presidential elections, yet you are here four months into your administration. Has Africa suddenly become a priority for the United States? SECRETARY POWELL: No, I think Africa has always been a priority for the United States. In a dome...

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Remarks at the University of Witwatersrand Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa May 25, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me start by saying that I am deeply honored to receive a copy of your bill of rights, modeled in the fashion of our Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights represented the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, and the very first of those Amendments was the right of fre...

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Interview on The Lehrer News Hour Secretary Colin L. Powell Interview by Jim Lehrer of The Lehrer News Hour Washington, DC April 23, 2001 MR. LEHRER: Mr. Secretary, welcome. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Jim. Good to be with you again. MR. LEHRER: What is the latest on why that American missionary plane was shot down over Peru? SECRETARY POWELL: Well, first let me express my condolences, as well as those of the United States Government, for the loss of those two people, the mother and the infant. It's a ...

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Interview on ABC's 'This Week' Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 4, 2001 Interview by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts MS. ROBERTS : Welcome to the program. We have a very special program on store for you today. MR. DONALDSON : Absolutely. The Secretary of State Colin Powell in his first interview since taking office. Welcome, Mr. Secretary, nice to see you. SECRETARY POWELL : It's good to see you, Sam. Cokie, good to be here. MR. DONALDSON : Well, most of us have called you "General" all...

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