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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Press Briefing Room Washington, DC January 19, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Anyway, I just want to come down here to prep Kirby – (laughter) – and make sure that he’s up to this last briefing here. I want to thank a number of people. First of all, I really want to thank John Kirby leading the team here, together with Mark Toner and Marie Harf and Jen Psaki, who sort of carried the burden of briefing everybody and standing here for many hours and trying to...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 5, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Hi, everybody. Matt, welcome back. QUESTION: Happy New Year. Thank you. SECRETARY KERRY: Congratulations, Matt. QUESTION: Thank you. Thank you very much. SECRETARY KERRY: A little Vaille. QUESTION: Yeah. SECRETARY KERRY: No sleep. QUESTION: Happy New Year, Mr. Secretary. QUESTION: What’s that? SECRETARY KERRY: What? QUESTION: Happy New Year, sir. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year to everybody. Thank you all. Great ...

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Photos from the trip» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Saudi Arabia, Austria, Belgium, Burma, and Vietnam from May 14 to May 26. On May 15-16, the Secretary traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for meetings with Saudi government officials to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues. Secretary Kerry traveled to Vienna, Austria, May 16-17. The Secretary co-hosted a ministerial meeting on Libya with Italian Foreign Minister Gentiloni to discuss international support for the new Governme...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Naypyitaw, Burma May 22, 2016 MODERATOR: (Inaudible.) We will commence this press briefing with a brief statement by the Minister for (inaudible) of Myanmar, to be followed by the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and then the minister will take questions. And may I now call upon the minister for to deliver a speech. FOREIGN MINISTER AUNG SAN SUU KYI: Thank you. I won’t take too much time because I don&r...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Press Briefing Room Washington, DC Learn more: Atrocities Prevention Report March 17, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. In 2014, the terrorist group Daesh began to seize territory in Syria and Iraq, overrunning major cities and committing atrocities. The United States responded quickly by denouncing these horrific acts and – more importantly – taking coordinated actions to counter them. In September of that year, President Obama mobilized an...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 7, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year. QUESTION: Happy New Year. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you all doing? Nice to see you all. Thank you very much. So I really just – I wanted to drop by this afternoon not to steal any of John’s thunder, if that’s even possible, by taking questions. There will be plenty of time for that, believe me, over the course of the next few weeks and beyond that. But I wanted to share with you a coupl...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC October 30, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning, everybody. How you all doing? Good? Nice to be with you. Welcome. We’re really, really happy to have you here at the State Department and we’re delighted that you are taking part in this really critical program – historic program in many ways – the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. I’m very grateful to our Assistant Secretary Evan Ryan for h...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Press Briefing Room Washington, DC April 19, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube. Good afternoon, everybody. Some people asked whether or not we might postpone this today because of all of what is going on. But we thought that on the contrary, that it’s a part of human rights to make clear that people have the right to run in a marathon without violence, and people have a right to enjoy a holiday without terror, and that the rig...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Washington, DC December 16, 2010 12:00 P.M. EST SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good morning. I appreciate very much the President’s words about Ambassador Holbrooke. It was a week ago this morning that he and I and members of our team were meeting about this review and the conclusions to be drawn. As many have observed, he was certainly a giant of diplomacy, but he understood how difficult the mission that he’d be...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC June 29, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, how are you all? I actually missed you. (Laughter.) I know, I know, and I wanted to thank you for the flowers. I really appreciated those. They are immeasurably adding to the healing process. But I wanted to come down because, obviously, there’s a lot going on, and there are a number of important issues to address today. But I want to start with yesterday’s unfortunate events in Honduras,...

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Press Conference Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Washington, DC May 19, 2009 Released by White House Office of the Press Secretary 11:25 A.M. EDT MR. GIBBS: A renewed guest appearance. Thank you all for coming. As we talked last week here, you all know the national security priority that Pakistan is for this administration. President Obama asked all those in the administration to respond quickly to the conditions that we're seeing now in the Swat Valley a...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 11, 2009 Secretary Clinton’s remarks from the top of the May 11, 2009 Daily Press Briefing: Good morning. Still, it’s morning nearly. I just spoke to the Swiss Ambassador to the United States, who confirms, as the protecting power, that Roxana Saberi has been released from prison. She is currently with her family and will be leaving Tehran to return to the United States in the coming days. Obviously, we continue to take iss...

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Special Briefing by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC June 18, 2007 View Video (1:29 p.m. EDT) SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. This morning President Bush spoke with Palestinian Authority President Abbas. He told him that the United States supports his legitimate decision to form an emergency government of responsible Palestinians, and he welcomed the appointment of Salam Fayyad as Prime Minister. The President pledged the full support of the United States for...

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Release of the Seventh Annual Trafficking in Persons Report Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC June 12, 2007 View Video (10:07 a.m. EDT) SECRETARY RICE: Thank you all for coming. I'd like to thank Ambassador Mark Lagon who just twelve days ago assumed his duties as director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. And it's my pleasure to be here today to release that report. Human traffickers prey on the most vulnerable members of society, most often innocent women and children...

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Remarks With Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik Secretary Condoleezza Rice Vienna, Austria May 31, 2007 MODERATOR: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to today's press briefing at the meeting of the Women's Empowerment Network. The Austrian Minister of International and European Affairs Ursula Plassnik and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will inform you about the meeting, after which we'll have the possibility to briefly ask questions. Foreign Minister, may I ask you? FOREIGN MINISTER PLASSNIK: Th...

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Press Briefing on Board Plane Secretary Colin L. Powell En Route Bogota December 3, 2002 SECRETARY POWELL: Everybody here, OK? Good. Thank you for joining me on this relatively short trip, by usual standards, to Colombia. As you know, this is my third try at this trip. Some of you will vividly remember 9/11 when we were in Lima, Peru, and I was supposed to be heading to Colombia that afternoon. Then there was another occasion since when I had a crisis interrupt my plans to visit Colombia. But, I wanted ...

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Press Briefing for High School Student Newspaper Editors Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC November 18, 2002 (11:02 a.m. EST) SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good morning, everyone. Forgive me for being a few moments late. I had a meeting that I couldn't break off fast, and then finally I said -- (Photographs being taken.) What did I walk into? A camera club? (Laughter.) QUESTION: They told them they can take pictures. (Laughter.) SECRETARY POWELL: But I finally told my guests that I have to go, I had a ...

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Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Brussels Secretary Colin L. Powell Brussels, Belguim December 5, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : I don�t know if you heard about the blue on blue incident we had in Afghanistan where one of our bombs hit a special forces unit and we lost some kids, maybe a dozen or so wounded and some Afghans, one of those unfortunate accidents that happen in war. QUESTION: You don�t know what happened? SECRETARY POWELL: No, I just know that it was something went wrong in one of the missil...

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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell En route to Washington, DC, from Shanghai, People's Republic of China October 21, 2001 QUESTION:   Did you give formal or informal notification of intent to withdraw from the ABM? SECRETARY POWELL:   No, we did not give formal or informal notification of an intention to withdraw from the ABM Treaty.   But the President has said repeatedly to President Putin and the Kremlin that we have to get beyond the constraints of the ABM Treaty, and he reinfor...

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Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Pakistan Secretary Colin L. Powell Islamabad, Pakistan October 15, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Let me start by just mentioning that I was pleased to receive word during the course of the afternoon that Prime Minister Sharon in his cabinet meeting has made some decisions with respect to some pullbacks and some opening of areas and I hope this will be seen as a continuation of the process we have been trying to get started. The violence has gone down as the President note...

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On-The-Record Press Briefing (1342 hrs) Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press Washington, DC September 17, 2001 [ audio ] SECRETARY POWELL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry I'm a little late. I just got off the phone with the President of Yemen, President Salih, and we had a good conversation about the support that Yemen is giving to us in this crisis. They have been very helpful recently in the continuation of the Cole investigation and now are helping us with respect to leads in th...

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On-the-Record Press Briefing (1415 hrs) Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press Washington, DC September 14, 2001 [ audio ] SECRETARY POWELL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will be brief today because of time constraints, and I have a phone call coming in just a few moments. So I will give you a short statement of just what we have been doing in the State Department over the last 24 hours, take a couple of questions, and then I regret I'll have to leave. We continue to work hard to build...

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Corrected Version: Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Washington, DC Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC September 11, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : I know that we all feel a deep sense of loss, a deep sense of sadness and outrage at what happened in the United States today, and my heart goes out to all those who lost their lives and to their families. And, you can be sure that the United States Government will do everything to find the perpetrators of this cowardly attack against innocent people and...

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Briefing on Upcoming Travel to Japan, Vietnam, The Republic of Korea, The People's Republic of China, and Australia Secretary Colin L. Powell Press Briefing Washington, DC July 20, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. How are you all today? I'm pleased to have a few minutes to spend with you to talk about the Asia trip that I am about to undertake. As you know, I leave for Asia on Sunday afternoon on a trip that will take me to Tokyo, to two ASEAN meetings in Hanoi, to Beijing, to ...

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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press En route to Shannon Airport April 13, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: I don�t have a statement. QUESTION: What did you accomplish in the Balkans? SECRETARY POWELL: I think it was important for me to go through the region to show that the Bush administration was interested in the region, committed to the region�s development, a fostering of democratic institutions, economic development, to get a better assessment of what we�re doing with our presence t...

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Press Briefing Abroad Aircraft En Route to Cairo, Egypt Secretary Colin L. Powell En Route Cairo, Egypt February 23, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : Well good evening. Thank you all for joining me. You have more people than I've got. This is not part of your new trimmed down State Department when I see this group. Glad to have you aboard and look forward to the opportunity of speaking to you as we go around on our various trips, not only this one, but in the future. Why don't we just jump into your questions ra...

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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 9, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. What a beautiful room you have down here. I hope to be spending a lot of time here with you in the months ahead. This is the first formal opportunity I've had to appear before you, although we have had a few occasions over the past few weeks. And I hope you understand that it will be my policy to do everything I can to help you do your jobs, try to do these press conferences o...

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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 1, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: (In progress) -- good meetings in Paris yesterday with President Chirac, and I'm looking forward to meeting him this afternoon. He gave a very interesting and impressive inauguration address which had a lot of elements in it, and I hope to follow up with him on those elements, some of the things he spoke about, the Lusaka Accord and some other issues, so I'm looking forward to meeting with him. With respect to an ...

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