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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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, thank you so much for your warm welcome.  It’s very, very good to be back before this committee, to be back in this room.  And I really do appreciate the opportunity to talk today about the foreign policy goals and priorities of the Biden-Harris administration and some of the early work that we’ve done to try to achieve them.

As I have said before, I am com

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Dean Acheson Auditorium

MS FOTOVAT:  Good morning.  My name is Kat Fotovat, and I am the senior official for the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues here at the State Department.  It is my pleasure to welcome both our in-person and virtual audience to the 15th Annual Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards.

We are delighted to join you today on International Women’s Day.  Since 2

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Via Teleconference

SECRETARY CLINTON:  So, Secretary Blinken, welcome.  I cannot express how pleased I am to have this chance to talk with you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.  I could not be happier to be able to spend some time with you.  I’ve had the good fortune to have spent a lot of time in these halls with you in the past, at the White House over many years, but it’s particularly fun to be connected via the

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