Secretary Remarks

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Kingston, Jamaica

Pegasus Hotel

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Mr. President, thank you.  Thank you for your leadership today, but thank you for your leadership every day, along with Prime Minister Holness for bringing us together today, all of the CARICOM heads of government for organizing the meeting, but also – and more important – for the sustained commitment that we’ve seen from everyone from around this table and people beyond this ta

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June 8, 2011 to June 14, 2011 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Photos: United Arab Emirates | Zambia | Tanzania | Ethiopia Secretary Clinton traveled to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) for a meeting of the Libya Contact Group on June 9. This meeting built on the last Contact Group meeting held in Rome and allowed the United States to discuss with its international partners the range of issues with respect to addressing the situation in Libya, including the ongoing implementation ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France January 15, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Look, I – first of all, I am grateful to the French for being willing to host the conference and I appreciate and respect their moral engagement and passion with the issue of peace, which I know matters to them deeply. And I think that – I really do believe that it is important that 70 nations, particularly – well, entities, but mostly nations – came together to reinforce the two-state solution ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Annapolis, MD January 10, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Please, please, be seated. Admiral, thank you very, very much for welcoming me here to this storied academy. I am really privileged to be here, and I’m anxious to hear your questions and look forward to having a little bit of a dialogue if we can. I want to recognize Admiral Frank Pandolfe, who is class of 1980. He has served as a liaison between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the State Depart...

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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 Quai d'Orsay Paris, France December 10, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AYRAULT: (Via interpreter, in progress) Yesterday at the UN General Assembly meeting, the resolution of – a resolution that was voted with (inaudible) full majority, and despite the use of chemical weapons by the regime, this is the logic of war that is still prevailing. This is why Sheikh Mohammed, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and myself wanted to call upon our close partners and to meet for...

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Photos from the trip» Secretary of State John Kerry was in New York City in conjunction with the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly . While in New York, Secretary Kerry participated in a variety of meetings and side events highlighting U.S. leadership on multilateral issues. On the margins of the UN General Assembly, Secretary Kerry met with a number of his counterparts to discuss a range of bilateral and global issues. New York 09/23/16   Remarks With Israeli Prime Minister ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Palace Hotel New York City September 22, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for your patience. There are reports that even as we were meeting this afternoon, a regime offensive was taking place in Aleppo, which is exactly the kind of regime action that has done so much damage to this process and to the credibility of the concept of restraint or ceasefire. As I said yesterday in the UN Security Council, this is a moment of truth for Russia, i...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. President, good morning, and good morning to all of our colleagues here on the United Nations Security Council. I want to thank my colleague from New Zealand particularly for hosting this very important session on the crisis in Syria. And I think it’s appropriate that we are gathering here a couple of rooms over from where yesterday so many heads of state came together in what I ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland September 9, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: So thank you all for tremendous patience during the course of a very long day which obviously has required a lot of detail work, and we appreciate everybody’s patience in hanging in there. Today, the United States and Russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume movement towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in Syria. And we believe that the pl...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Osobnyak Moscow, Russia July 15, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) (In progress) -- met President Aliyev and President Sargsyan. Recently upon the instruction of my president I visited Yerevan and Baku, and today we exchanged views as to the ways to use the momentum in order to reach an agreement with respect to practical steps and agreed upon the agreements that will be acceptable for all the sides and that would help us attain the goal of bringing pe...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom June 27, 2016 FOREIGN SECRETARY HAMMOND: Good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Secretary Kerry today. His visit here just three days after the referendum result underlines the strength of the special relationship and indeed Britain’s many friendships around the world, and I very much appreciate him taking the time to visit with us today. The result last Friday is, of course, not the result that I wished for, and it means a diffi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Oxford, United Kingdom May 11, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Wow. I think I’m just going to stop right now. (Laughter.) Thank you for just an incredibly warm, tremendous welcome to this historic hall. It’s a great honor for me to be here. Bob, where’d you run off to? Where did he go? Thank you so much for your welcome. And Warden MacMillan, thank you very much. I appreciate it. (Inaudible) Baroness Cathy Ashton, my good friend, thank you so muc...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State President Wilson Hotel Geneva, Switzerland May 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. I’m very appreciative to Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy to Syria, for his tremendous work and his efforts over the last months to help to bring life to a political process in the midst of a conflict that is in many ways out of control and deeply disturbing to everybody in the world, I hope. The cessation of hostilities that we were able to neg...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Wilson Hotel Geneva, Switzerland May 1, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: So let me just say quickly that I’m delighted to be with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh of Jordan, and we will be talking about not just Syria and the cessation of hostilities but a number of other regional topics, but I think we both want to emphasize the seriousness of the situation with respect to the cessation of hostilities. And we are talking directly with the Russians even now. The hope is tha...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Omni Hotel Los Angeles, CA April 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mickey, thank you very, very much. I remember you when you were six foot four and blond, and I’m not sure what you are now, but we all get cut down to size in this business. (Laughter.) I have to tell you all, first of all, what a great privilege it is to be here with the Pacific Council. I have great respect for, admiration for your commitment to all things international, and it’s a privilege fo...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State International Media Center Hiroshima, Japan April 11, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Konnichiwa . I am very privileged to be here, and I want to thank Foreign Minister Kishida and the Government of Japan for hosting us here in Hiroshima for the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of 2016. I also want to thank our terrific Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and her entire team for their hard work and for what they are accomplishing in strengthen...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Embassy Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq April 8, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon everybody, and thank you for your patience. I really appreciate it. I have had a very productive series of conversations, a day of meetings here in Baghdad. And I want to thank Prime Minister Abadi, Foreign Minister Jaafari, Speaker Jibouri, and KRG Prime Minister Barzani, all of them, for the time they gave today, for the serious conversations we had, and for their par...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter in progress) – group works, six group works in different issues, and with regard to the defense of the GCC countries against any attack and how to counterattack the – and how to deal with the challenges in the region whether in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya. And we reviewed the peace efforts and the Palestine issue. Also we reviewed the efforts to counter t...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State New York City April 5, 2016 QUESTION: John Kerry is here. He is the 68th Secretary of State of the United States. After 28 years in the Senate, he succeeded Hillary Clinton in 2013. Last year, he brokered a landmark nuclear deal with Iran. He’s also played a key role in the latest round of Syrian peace negotiations. According to The New Yorker ’s David Remnick, Kerry’s admirers and critics alike describe him in similar terms – “tirele...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Kremlin Moscow, Russia March 24, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Distinguished colleagues, we are beginning the press conference of the ministers of foreign affairs here of the Russian Federation and the U.S. FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, today the State – the Secretary of State of the U.S. have had a day of negotiations in the Russian capital. First, we had a long meeting in the ministry of foreign affairs, and now, th...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France March 13, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AYRAULT: (Via interpreter) (In progress) This is a conflict that next Tuesday will be completing its fifth year of existence. Now the intra-Syrian negotiations should resume tomorrow and they will be very difficult. But together we would like to restate the support we want to give to the moderate opposition. The moderate opposition has decided to attend the Geneva talks and to sit around the table for the negotiations. W...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC March 9, 2016 QUESTION: Well, it’s a great honor for us to have you today. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. QUESTION: I’m going to get right at it. SECRETARY KERRY: Go for it. QUESTION: We’ll start with certainly the news of the day out of Iran and state media there reporting that they’ve test launched new missiles and Vice President Biden, as you say, traveling, saying the U.S. will take action if that&rs...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Well, Frank-Walter and I wanted to take advantage of Leap Year, the extra day in February, so we figured we’d get together once again. We are hardly, hardly strangers. We spent an enormous amount of time in Vienna, in Lausanne, in Montreux, in Geneva, and already in Munich this year, and we’ve spent a lot of time working together, cooperating, and talking about the cri...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC February 24, 2016 Well, thank you, Madam Chairman and Ranking Member Lowey and Mr. Chairman Rogers of the full committee, all the members, thank you very much. My apologies for being late. I had a phone call that came in that I had to take at the last minute, and I apologize for keeping any of you waiting. Look, I want to just start by saying we really appreciate your tr...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC February 23, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I’m delighted to welcome Minister Wang Yi back to the State Department to the Ben Franklin Room and back to Washington. And we had a – this is about the third time that we have now met in the last weeks, and we’ve had occasion to have a lot of conversations about all of the topics of interest between our countries. As I have said many times, the United St...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Amman, Jordan February 21, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER JUDEH: (Via interpreter) So, allow me to welcome the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry. He is an intimate friend, and I would like to stress that we are jointly keen on to maintain these consultation and communication relationships, especially with respect to the joint challenges that we are facing in this country and across the world. This consultation comes within the historical – solid histor...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura Munich, Germany February 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Let me start by thanking Foreign Minister Steinmeier and the people of Germany for hosting this important meeting of the International Syria Support Group on the margins of the Munich Security Conference, and we’re very grateful to our colleague, Frank Walter, for his help and assistance in th...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy February 2, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon. Welcome to our press conference of the ministerial summit of the small group of the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh. Minister Gentiloni and Secretary of State Kerry will make some brief statements, and then you’ll have a chance to ask some questions. Minister Gentiloni, you have the floor. FOREIGN MINISTER GENTILONI: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon, everyon...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State State Department Washington, DC January 31, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: For almost five years, the world has watched in horror as Syria has disintegrated into a brutal conflict, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions both within and outside the country. Syria today is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, unmatched since World War II. In recent months, a new and broad-based diplomatic initiative was launched, for the first time involving all of the key cou...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, China January 27, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, good afternoon. The foreign ministers of China and the United States have just had an in-depth and substantive discussion, and now, they are ready to meet the press. Now, Foreign Minister Wang will first make a statement. FOREIGN MINISTER WANG: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, we’re sorry to have kept you waiting, and even if you...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Royal Air Base Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 23, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter) (In progress) the Saudi Arabia, which has two purposes. He is going to meet with His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and the minister of defense of Saudi Arabia, after this meeting. We have met with his excellency, the foreign ministers of the GCC in the framework of the deliberatio...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Klaus, thank you very, very much. Hello, everybody. Good morning to you. Klaus, first of all, thank you for your very warm, generous introduction. I especially want to thank you for your superb leadership of the World Economic Forum for many years. As you’ve said, it’s been my honor to come here. This may have been the hardest trip of all. I was looking up at the mountain, fresh snow, and I saw those b...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom January 14, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Foreign Minister, are you prepared to resume Syria’s support group cooperation with Iran? FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: We never left the Syria support group meeting. Our relationship with Iran is separate from the relationship with everybody else in terms of the Syria cooperation group. Our objective is to work through the process that was started in Vienna in order to arrive at a peaceful settlement based o...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State National Defense University Washington, DC January 13, 2016 Thank you. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much, Major General Padilla. Thank you, all of you. It’s a great privilege for me to be able to be here today. I’m delighted to be in the presence of so many people currently serving our nation, all with great distinction. And it’s a privilege to be at NDU. I’m also honored that the Secretary of the Air Force Debbie James is here. Th...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State New York, NY December 18, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for coming. First of all, I want to express again my appreciation and the appreciation of all of the P5 members of the International Syria Support Group who worked through the day, and I appreciate Foreign Minister Lavrov’s engagement and his commitment to trying to get to a place that everybody could be comfortable. What we’ve achieved today is ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State New York, NY December 18, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. Secretary-General, Special Envoy de Mistura, distinguished colleagues, I want to begin by thanking the other P4 members who joined together to help fashion this resolution and who spent time this morning working with our colleagues in order to bring us here this afternoon, plus our non-P4 member, Germany, for whom we are very grateful for their participation also. I want to thank all the members of the council for ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State The Kremlin Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015 FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today, we had a big negotiating day with John Kerry and his delegation finalizing their working visit to Moscow. We started with negotiations at Russian foreign ministry and we continued here in the Kremlin during the meeting with President Putin. Negotiations in the morning and in the evening were concrete, specific. We were focusin...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission Residence Paris, France November 5, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well good evening, and thank you for being here. It’s a pleasure for me to be back in Paris on my way to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing. And in the meantime, I was able to have a number of important and constructive meetings here today, particularly with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France and also with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh of Jordan. I...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Berlin Wall Memorial Visitor's Center Berlin, Germany October 22, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER STEINMEIER: (Via interpreter) Well, ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted that so much have come, and we’re delighted to be able to welcome my American counterpart, the American Secretary of State. I would like to extend a very warm welcome to him. Well, I’m delighted that you have come to this press conference. We’re delighted to be able to welco...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State Boston Globe September 26, 2014 The United States has long faced threats from a lethal brand of terrorism that perverts one of world’s great religions. We have been relentless in targeting Al Qaeda and its affiliates, but the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, now poses a profound and unique threat to the entire world. What we are confronting is nothing less than a violent extremist enterprise. It has employed violence, intimidation, and genocidal brutal...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC September 17, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, and members of the committee, my friends and former colleagues, I really thank you for holding this hearing on an issue that is obviously fraught with all the high stakes that both the chairman and the ranking member have just described and all of the members of the committee understand deeply. And I really look forward to this oppo...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The New York Times August 29, 2014 In a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States. What’s needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda is a global coalition using political, humanitarian, economic, law enforcement and intelligence tools to support military force. In addition to its beheadings, crucifixions and other acts of s...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii August 13, 2014 MR. MORRISON: Well, thank you. Aloha. I want to welcome everyone. And for our online audience, and also for the Secretary, I’d like to describe who is here in our audience. We have the mayor of Honolulu, Mayor Caldwell. We have our senator, Mazie Hirono. We have our former governor, George Ariyoshi, and our other former governor, John Waihee. We have many members of the business and intellectual and public affa...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Admiralty House Sydney, Australia August 12, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER BISHOP: Ladies and gentlemen, today we have welcomed to Sydney and to AUSMIN Secretaries John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, and this is the second AUSMIN meeting that the four principals here have participated in. The United States alliance is the most important security relationship for Australia, and AUSMIN is an annual opportunity for us to take stock of this relationship. And today’s discussion wa...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Lake Garden Hotel Naypyitaw, Burma August 10, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank President Thein Sein for his government’s warm welcome here during the course of this conference, for his leadership as chair of ASEAN, and for serving as the United States-ASEAN country coordinator. Burma has made a significant amount of progress over the course of the last years, and when I was last here in 1999, I visited with Aung San S...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna, Austria July 15, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everyone. I want to first thank the extraordinary team of diplomats and experts who have been on the ground here for weeks and who have been working tirelessly, actually, for many months in these negotiations. And I’m talking about both our American team as well as our colleagues from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran, and particularly I would like to thank Baron...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Washington, DC June 30, 2014 QUESTION: So why don’t I start with you, Secretary Kerry. How would you characterize the state of the U.S.-China relationship today? Does the U.S. see China as a true partner or an inevitable rival? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we definitely don’t view China as an inevitable rival. We view China with hopes and possibilities of an increasing partnership. It’s a very important relatio...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State ForeignPolicy.com October 25, 2013 The world already knows that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape, and torture against his own citizens. What is far less well known, and equally intolerable, is the systematic denial of medical assistance, food supplies, and other humanitarian aid to huge portions of the population. This denial of the most basic human rights must end before the war's death toll -- now surp...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bali, Indonesia October 7, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube.  SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good morning, everybody. I want to thank Foreign Minister Lavrov for joining me here today to sign this important agreement. Amending the NRRC agreement is another important step towards reducing risks associated with nuclear weapons, and I think both of us are cognizant of the fact that 26 years ago our predecessors from the United States and ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State New York City September 27, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. Thank you very much, and thank you, Mr. Secretary General, distinguished minister members of the Security Council. Five weeks ago, the world saw rows upon rows of murdered children lying on a hospital floor alone or beside slain parents, all wrapped in un-bloodied burial shrouds. And the world’s conscience was shocked, but our collective resolved hardened. Tonight, ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC September 20, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. My great pleasure to welcome His Excellency the Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans of The Netherlands, here to visit today. The Netherlands has been a very staunch, early, immediate supporter of our efforts to try to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, and I’m very grateful to Frans for their very, very strong statement in ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Quai d'Orsay Paris, France September 16, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (Via interpreter) (In progress) discuss the situation in Syria as well as the decisions to be taken over the next few days. And further to that meeting at the Elysee Palace, we held the first working meeting with my two colleagues. And we will be meeting in a minute after this press conference our colleague, the Mr. Davutoglu, Ministe...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Armed Services Committee Washington, DC September 10, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, and distinguished members of the committee, I’m privileged to be here this morning with Secretary Hagel and General Dempsey, and we are all of us – all three of us – very much looking forward to a conversation with you about this complicated, challenging, ...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The Huffington Post Washington, DC September 6, 2013 This was released as a Media Note by the Office of the Spokesperson.  A Yes Vote of Conscience for the World's Red Line I'm sometimes asked how, as someone who testified 42 years ago against the Vietnam War in which I had fought, I could testify in favor of action to hold the Assad regime accountable today. The answer is, I spoke my conscience in 1971 and I'm speaking my conscience now in 2013. Secr...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Nations New York City July 25, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: The 7,011 th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is: “The Situation in the Great Lakes Region: Supporting the Great Lakes Framework.” Without objection, the agenda is adopted and it’s my pleasure to warmly welcome the distinguished Secretary-General, the ministers, and the...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Vice Premier Wang Yang Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC July 10, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I want to thank my good friend of almost 40-plus years, the Vice President of the United States, for coming today. I don’t think there’s ever been a Vice President who is as steeped in foreig...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ankara, Turkey March 1, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . FOREIGN MINISTER DAVUTOGLU: (Via interpreter.) Distinguished members of the press, his Excellency U.S. Secretary of State, my dear friend, Mr. John Kerry, it’s a pleasure to have you in our beautiful country and in our capital city. And it’s a privilege for us to be able to host you or accommodate you in this very historical landmark. We have been in close colla...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, United Kingdom February 25, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . FOREIGN SECRETARY HAGUE: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a great honor to welcome the 68 th Secretary of State of the United States of America, John Kerry, to London today and to the Foreign Commonwealth Office. Secretary Kerry, we are delighted that you chose the United Kingdom as your first destination overseas. My own first vi...

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Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC February 14, 2013 Eight years ago today, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was murdered together with 22 other victims by a car bomb in Beirut. Those who initiated the killing sought to undermine Lebanon's sovereignty and independence. This act of coldblooded mass murder sent shivers throughout the region. I will never forget sitting in Beirut soon after for my meetings held next to a portrait of Hariri shrouded in black. The gri...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC January 18, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Ben Franklin Room here in the State Department. And of course, let me warmly welcome the Foreign Minister here for the first time in this new capacity on behalf of the new Government of Japan. Before we start, I’d like to say a few words about the situation in Algeria. The U...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State State Reception Center Perth, Australia November 14, 2012 Well, thank you, Foreign Minister Carr and Defense Minister Smith for welcoming us and our delegation for this AUSMIN meeting here in Perth. We are delighted to have this opportunity once again in this setting to exchange views on a broad range of issues. Let me begin by congratulating Australia on your election to the United Nations Security Council. That achievement opens the door to even closer...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations New York City September 26, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube Thank you very much, Minister Westerwelle, for calling us together at this critical moment to discuss peace and security in the Middle East on the heels of two tumultuous weeks during which violent protests rocked countries across the region. And although anger was directed against my country, the protests exposed deep rifts within new democraci...

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September 23, 2012 to October 1, 2012 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Photos Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to New York City to attend the United Nations 67th General Assembly. While in New York, Secretary Clinton conducted a number of bilateral and multilateral meetings with her counterparts. More on UNGA» Remarks 10/01/2012 Remarks at the Forum on Small States Opening Session 09/28/2012 Background Briefing on an Announcement Regarding the Mujahedin-e Kh...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 12, 2011 MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome back, for those of you who were with us yesterday evening and this morning. I think we’ve had a tremendous conference. We’re tremendously honored to have a friend, a mentor, an inspiration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton here with us today. I want to extend a sincere thanks to you, Madam Secretary, for taking this time out of your schedule to join us and deepen our ...

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March 28, 2011 to March 29, 2011 Travels With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary Clinton was in London, United Kingdom , March 29 to attend an international conference to discuss the Libyan crisis, including ongoing implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 and the humanitarian needs of those affected by the conflict. Remarks 03/29/2011 Remarks After the International Conference on the Libyan Crisis 03/29/2011 Remarks at the International Conference on ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State South African Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Treaty Room Washington, DC December 14, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Treaty Room here in the State Department. Before we begin with the business at hand today, on behalf of all the women and men at the State Department I want to express my deepest condolences to the family of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Richard was a trusted friend, a valued mentor, and an indispensable colle...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC December 9, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m delighted to welcome the foreign minister back to the State Department to continue our ongoing discussions about our bilateral interests and our shared concerns around the world. Among the chief concerns we discussed today is the unresolved political situation in Cote d'Ivoire. We are in full agreement that Alassane Ouattara is the rightfully elected president of Cote d'Ivoi...

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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 Renaissance Mayflower Hotel Washington, DC October 21, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s a great honor to be introduced by Ambassador Moose. George and I have had the privilege of working together in the past, and I look forward to his good advice and counsel as we move forward on many of these important matters. I want to thank Ambassador Solomon. Dick has done an extraordinary job, as you all know, both in...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 30, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: The 6,195 th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is before the Council in document S/Agenda 6,195, which reads, and I quote: “Women and Peace and Security,” end of quote. Unless I hear any objection, I shall consider the agenda adopted. The agenda is adopted.   I should like to inform the Council that I ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Mandarin Oriental Hotel Washington, DC September 10, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much. And it is a real pleasure to join you this evening in welcoming Chairman Wu here to Washington. Mr. Chairman, I hope you feel as welcome in our capital city as I did in Beijing earlier this year on my first overseas trip as Secretary of State. I want to thank Tom and the Chamber and all of the sponsors for hosting this dinner. The range of people and organiz...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Bangkok, Thailand July 22, 2009 QUESTION: So, you’re here in Thailand. You have a couple of pretty intractable problems on your agenda: getting North Korea to disarm, promoting change in Myanmar. First, on North Korea, how do you think the – you and your partners can draw North Korea back to the negotiating table? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Michele, first, let me say that I am here to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ r...

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Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Sheraton Grande Laguna Laguna Phuket, Thailand July 22, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying how delighted I am to be here in Phuket for meetings with the nations of ASEAN and its partners throughout the region. This visit to the ASEAN Regional Forum follows my February trip to Jakarta and my visit to the ASEAN secretariat, where I stressed America’s commitment to strengthen our presence and engagement in this r...

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Press Conference Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada June 13, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER CANNON: Canada and the United States have committed this morning to amending the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. This is important for both nations. These inland waters are the largest system of fresh water in the world, a foundation for billions of dollars in trade, shipping, agriculture, recreation, of course, and other sectors. The Government of Canada has taken significant ef...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC June 5, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. Minister Davutoglu and I just had a very productive, broad-ranging, comprehensive discussion. And it is a great privilege to welcome him here to the State Department within the very first weeks of his having been appointed foreign minister. Of course, I was very honored to have gone to Turkey very early in my term as Secretary of State, and President Obam...

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Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC May 7, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Benjamin Franklin Room here in the State Department. Foreign Minister Lavrov and I have just concluded another very constructive meeting. It built on the discussions we started several months ago in Geneva and obviously was very much part of the work that both of our presidents assigned to their respective governments coming out of the Lon...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Beirut, Lebanon April 26, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Let me begin by saying how pleased I am to be here in Lebanon on a beautiful day. I appreciated the opportunity that I had to meet with the president, with the minister, and other members of the government. I am grateful for this chance to deliver a letter to President Sleiman from President Obama, expressing the Obama administration's strong support for a free, sovereign, and independent Lebanon. &nb...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC April 15, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. I am so delighted to extend a warm welcome to the prime minister of Haiti and to her distinguished delegation. She and I were together at the donors conference on behalf of Haiti yesterday. And as you know, I will be traveling to Haiti tomorrow. But before I turn to the important issues that we discussed today about Haiti, I’d like to take a moment to discuss an issue that affects us ...

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Joint Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ankara, Turkey March 7, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan today reaffirmed the strong bonds of alliance, solidarity and strategic partnership between the Republic of Turkey and the United States, as well as the commitment of both countries to the principles of peace, democracy, freedom, and prosperity enshrined in the Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue document agreed to in July 2006. Turkey and the Unite...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Ankara, Turkey March 7, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER BABACAN: (Via interpreter) We would like to welcome Mrs. Clinton. We had a telephone conversation a few weeks ago, and I invited the Secretary during that telephone conversation, and I would like to thank the Secretary for having accepted my invitation and having come so quickly, I mean, after the telephone conversation. This is the first visit of Mrs. Clinton to Turkey after the Obama administration took ove...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Remarks With South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Seoul, South Korea February 20, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER YU: (Via interpreter) – Good morning, everyone. I am delighted to welcome Secretary Clinton, who is here visiting Korea on her first overseas trip as the Secretary of State. Today, Secretary Clinton and I shared the view that the ROK-U.S. alliance is a cornerstone for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in Northe...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Remarks Following Meeting Washington, DC February 3, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon. I’m very pleased to be here today with Foreign Minister Steinmeier. We have had an excellent and broad discussion. Germany is one of our closest allies, and we greatly value opportunities like today to discuss the issues that affect our nations and the international community as a whole. I conveyed to th...

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Remarks at the United Nations Security Council Session on the Situation in Gaza Secretary Condoleezza Rice UN Headquarters New York City January 6, 2009 View Video SECRETARY RICE : Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Secretary General. I wish to thank President Abbas for his presence here and also the ministers of the Arab League who have joined us. The United States is, of course, deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza, which is clearly worsening. We have been working around the clock to try and...

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Interview on Al Hurra Television With Michel Ghandour Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC July 25, 2007 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, first, thank you for granting us the opportunity to interview you. Madame Secretary, you are visiting the Middle East in the upcoming days. What are the objectives of this visit? SECRETARY RICE: Well, first, I will go to the region with Secretary Gates because we want to make very clear to our friends and allies in the region that the United States is committed to a M...

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Press Availability With United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; High Representative for European Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana; European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner; Foreign Minister of Portugal Luis Amado; Envoy of the Quartet of the Middle East Tony Blair Secretary Condoleezza Rice Lisbon, Portugal July 19, 2007 (3:35 p.m. EDT) FOREIGN MINISTER AMADO: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen of the press, many thank...

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Press Availability With French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, High Representative for European Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel Secretary Condoleezza Rice Paris, France June 26, 2007 FOREIGN MINISTER KOUCHNER: (In French.) SECRETARY GENERAL BAN: I think our actions should be concentrated into four areas: first, humanitarian assistance...

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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 on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC December 29, 2002 MR. SNOW:   Secretary Powell, James A. Kelly, our Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs, is heading off to South Korea to talk with the government.   Is he also going to speak with the North Koreans?   SECRETARY POWELL:   Not at this time.   He'll be going to South Korea within the next week or two to consult with our friends and allies.   We believe it is very import...

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Press Conference on Iraq Declaration Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC December 19, 2002 [ audio ; DSL/cable ; dial-up modem ] (2:30 p.m. EST) SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. On November 8th, the United Nations Security Council responded to the challenge issued by President Bush in his 12 September speech to the United Nations General Assembly. On that day, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, requiring Iraq to disarm itself of its weapons of mass...

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Press Availability With Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, EU High Representative Javier Solana, and European Union Commissioner Chris Patten Secretary Colin L. Powell Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC December 18, 2002 SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank Foreign Minister Moeller, High Representative Solana and External Affairs Commissioner Patten for coming to Washington for our semiannual U.S.-European Union meeting of foreign ministers. As th...

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Two Plus Two Ministerial: Joint Press Availability With U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, and Director General Shigeru Ishiba of the Defense Agency of Japan Secretary Colin L. Powell and Japanese Officials The State Department, Washington, DC December 16, 2002 [ audio ; DSL/cable ; dial-up modem ] SECRETARY POWELL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and I have just completed very good meetings with o...

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Remarks at Joint Press Conference Secretary Colin L. Powell Foreign Ministry Mexico City, Mexico November 26, 2002 Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, and let me just say it's been my distinct pleasure to head the US delegation to this year's Binational Commission meeting. I speak for the entire US team when I say that this has, indeed, been a very productive two days of high level discussions -- constructive discussions, which reflect the strong determination of Presidents Bush and Fox to deepen the re...

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Interview on NBC News Secretary Colin L. Powell Prague, Czech Republic November 21, 2002 MR. WILLIAMS: Mr. Secretary, a historic time for NATO. Any American who lived through the Cold War is cognizant of that. But what about the NATO of tomorrow, this rapid strike force the President would like to see, and what about the NATO of the next day? Where is NATO on Iraq, for instance? SECRETARY POWELL: I think that is pretty obvious from the statement that NATO put out today, Brian, a very strong statement th...

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Reconstruction of Afghanistan Secretary Condoleezza Rice Remarks at Working Session at the State Department Washington, DC November 20, 2001 [ audio ] 9:05 A.M. EST SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Al, and good morning, everyone. And I, too, want to join in welcoming you all here and thanking you for coming at such short notice. Answering the call of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1378, we have come together today to demonstrate our commitment to the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afgh...

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United States Position on Terrorists and Peace in the Middle East Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks at the McConnell Center for Political Leadership University of Louisville, Kentucky November 19, 2001 11:17 a.m. EST SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you so very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome, and I thank you, Senator McConnell for that very kind and generous introduction. It is a tribute to you, Mitch, my friend, that we are all here today. The McConnell Center for Political Leadership carries...

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Topics: Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements

The Campaign Against Terrorism Secretary Colin L. Powell Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC October 25, 2001 2:30 P.M. EDT As Delivered SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for welcoming me back to appear before the Committee. And let me also say that I happened to read the same newspaper articles that Senator Helms did this morning, and when I saw the glaring headline, I said whoa, wait a minute, this can't be right. So I immediately asked my staff to get the transcri...

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Interview on Meet the Press Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC September 23, 2001 QUESTION:   But first, the Secretary of State is with us.   General Colin Powell, welcome. SECRETARY POWELL:   Good morning, Tim. QUESTION:   Twelve days ago, America was attacked like never before.   Where are we in terms of response? SECRETARY POWELL:   In terms of response, we have begun a broad campaign against the perpetrators of this attack, and also against terrorism in general. &...

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Joint Press Availability With His Excellency Louis Michel, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium (in Capacity of EU Presidency) Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC September 20, 2001 [ audio ] SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's been my pleasure today to host my European Union colleagues: the European Union President Louis Michel, also Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium; High Representative Javier Solana, with whom I do a lo...

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Regions: Afghanistan, Belgium , United Kingdom , United States

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Prepared Statement for the Record on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC May 15, 2001 As Delivered As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002. This Budget represents a needed increase in the Dep...

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Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Cyber Issues, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements