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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 10, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, this journey, this part of your life, is coming to an end. You’ve traveled more than any other secretary of state. You have spent considerable time and hours on a lot of issues, from China to Russia to – from Asia to Latin America. But principally, you spent a lot of time on Israel and Palestine and you spent a lot of time on the Iran nuclear deal and you’ve spent a lot of time on Syria and...
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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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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chatham House London, United Kingdom October 31, 2016 MR NIBLETT: Welcome to Chatham House, excellencies, lords, ladies, and gentlemen, and welcome also to this 2016 Chatham House Prize ceremony. We’re delighted that so many of our members are here with us today; also supporters, guests, thank you very much for making the time. Our Chatham House Council members, our Panel of Senior Advisors, our Second Century Committee, representative of U.K. Government, oppo...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Greenwald Pavilion, Aspen Institute Aspen, Colorado June 28, 2016 MR ISAACSON: Thank you very much. It’s a great honor and pleasure for us to have a man I’ve admired – most of us have admired – for many years, a man who – U.S. Naval, served in Vietnam, won the Purple Heart – I mean, three Purple Hearts, the bronze medal, the silver medal, has been a senator, candidate for president, and now our Secretary of State. In the past two ...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi Great Hall of the People Beijing, China June 7, 2016 MODERATOR: Distinguished guests, friends from the media, good afternoon. Welcome to the closing ceremony and press conference of the eighth S&ED. Today we have the pleasure of having with us the four special representatives. First let us invite special representative of President Xi, Vice Premier Wan...
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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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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 Treaty Room Washington, DC November 9, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for spending a minute with us. I am really delighted to be able to welcome Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond, who has welcomed me now many times in London. It seems we have a lot more meetings in Europe. But most importantly, we share incredibly close efforts together, as we always have, really, on almost every subject that confronts countries in th...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Grand Hotel Vienna, Austria October 30, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon. I thank all of you for your patience today and appreciate your waiting around here so we had a moment to come and share some thoughts with you. I want to begin by thanking all of our foreign minister counterparts. Sergey Lavrov and I asked many people to come and many dropped things at the last minute. They changed their schedules and made themselves available. And we’re very g...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Revere Hotel Boston, Massachusetts October 13, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Secretary Carter and our friends from Australia, Foreign Minister Bishop and Defense Minister Payne. Julie and Marise, I’m really happy to have you here in Boston. We’ve been delighted to be able to give you a slight taste of this great city, which I have the privilege of calling home. And I think it’s been a very con...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Willard Hotel Washington, DC December 7, 2014 Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Martin, thank you so very much. Haim, where are you sitting here? Somewhere. Haim, thank you. Gerald, thank you so much for your incredible leadership. Ambassador Dermer, great to see you here. And former Ambassador Oren, I see you here. Joe Lieberman – I’m picking through the audience. I’m stopping at the second row. (Laughter.) It’s really a pleasur...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Imperial Hotel Vienna, Austria November 22, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: So let me just say to everybody, first of all, I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Steinmeier, appreciate enormously his cooperation and help – Germany’s help – on so many things. And most recently, with respect to Ebola, we’ve been doing a great deal, and we’re grateful for your help on that. We’ve been, obviously, having difficult talks here – co...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France November 20, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. As you know, I’ve spent the last couple of days in Europe, in London, and now in Paris. And during the course of that time, I’ve had very worthwhile meetings with Foreign Secretary Hammond of Great Britain, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal here in Paris today, and of course, with Foreign Minister Fabius, and other meetings that I have had during that time. During these meeti...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Paris, France November 20, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (In French.) SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you, Laurent. I think basically what I’m going to say will effectively be the English version of what Laurent has just said to you, because we are in agreement. And I want to begin by thanking Laurent for hosting me here today and for working, as he has, so effectively over the last months in order to get us to the place where we have the choice that is before us...
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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 31, 2014 QUESTION: We’re here with the Secretary of State John Kerry. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY KERRY: I’m delighted to be with you. I’m honored to be with you on your first outing here. QUESTION: Well, thank you for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. QUESTION: We have so much to talk about. The deadline for the Iranian nuclear negotiations is November 24. What are the odds of having a deal by then or being clo...
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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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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 10, 2014 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Delighted to be here. QUESTION: Before we launch into our conversation about Afghanistan, I wanted to get your reaction to Malala Yousafzai’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. SECRETARY KERRY: I think it’s terrific, and shared, of course, with Kailash Satyarthi. I think the two of them together represent an incredibly appropriate statement about the impo...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission Residence Paris, France September 15, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: All right. I want to make – I know we get crunched a little bit, but I really want to lay out some things that I think are very important and then you guys can ask some questions. Let me begin by saying that I sat in that room today with – how many nations were there? Thirty? MS. PSAKI: Twenty-six. SECRETARY KERRY: Twenty-six total? STAFF: Thirty delegations. SECRETARY KERRY: Th...
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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 20, 2014 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY KERRY: I’m glad to be with you, David. Thank you. QUESTION: The President demanded absolute cooperation from Russia, from the separatists in eastern Ukraine, and now the whole world is watching, and the startling developments that the rebels are removing bodies from the crash site, putting them on refrigerated trains, even talk of removing the black box. What do...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State London, United Kingdom June 13, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: I’m really happy to be meeting with Lady Cathy Ashton because we have been working together on almost every issue of concern right now – Ukraine, Syria, Middle East – and most importantly, Cathy is marshaling the P5+1 and the Iran talks that we are deeply involved in right now. We’re a critical six, seven weeks in those Iran talks, so it’s very important that we sit down, take stock,...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Willard Hotel Washington, DC December 7, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Tamara, for a very, very generous introduction, and thank you for the great work that you are now doing at the Saban Center at Brookings. And good afternoon to everybody. Welcome to a rather remarkable – I’ve been noticing the numbers of people. I don’t know if you can get the President of the United States as an opening act, but I’...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC November 18, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. I am really delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Davutoglu back to Washington. He has been such a gracious host for me now on three trips to Turkey, and frankly, it was really high time that I had an opportunity to be able to reciprocate here. We’re delighted that he’s coming here on a beautiful, beautiful fall day with lots of colors out there. We’...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates November 11, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER ABDALLAH: (Via interpreter) Good morning. May peace be upon you. I’d like to start by welcoming His Excellency, U.S. Secretary of State and close friend John Kerry. There’s no doubt that the visit of the U.S. Secretary of State to the United Arab Emirates at this time and under these conditions, especially following the meetings in Geneva, was a very strong message to the extent of the cl...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland November 10, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you for hanging in here with all of us in what has obviously been a long and interesting process, but a very productive one if I can say so. I want to thank my colleagues from the United Kingdom, Turkey, France, Russia and China. And I particularly want to thank Lady Catherine Ashton for her leadership and for the European Union’s convening all of us here in order to perform this very important busin...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Riyadh Air Base Riyadh, Saudi Arabia November 4, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER SAUD: (Via interpreter) In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. It’s my pleasure to welcome Secretary John Kerry and his delegation in Saudi Arabia. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques received Secretary Kerry this afternoon. In the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and the developments in the region. I’d like to take this opportunity to address the recent media ...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ciragan Palace Istanbul, Turkey April 7, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . FOREIGN MINISTER DAVUTOGLU: I will speak in Turkish. (Via interpreter) Distinguished members of the press, U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, is once again with us, while second time in a row in a period of a month, and it gives me great pleasure and an honor to be (inaudible) again. And I would like to welcome him once again, along with his (inaudibl...
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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State En route from Carlton Gardens to Chequers, London, United Kingdom October 11, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, Mr. Humphrys, this is Hillary Clinton. MR. HUMPHRYS: Oh, Madame Secretary, hello. Thank you very much for doing this in these slightly unusual circumstances. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I apologize that we couldn't do it in person. My visit is much too short. But I appreciate your being understanding. MR. HUMPHRYS: On the contrary, it's very good o...
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Remarks Following Meeting Concerning Iran Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York City December 16, 2008 Remarks by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice After Meeting with the Permanent Members of the UNSC, Germany, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan SECRETARY RICE: (In progress) with representatives of the P5+1. Those representatives included David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, and Javier...
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Interview on CBS News Radio with Dan Raviv and Charles Wolfson Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 9, 2008 QUESTION: Welcome to the Marshall Room at the State Department. I’m Dan Raviv of CBS News here for a radio interview with the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Thanks so much for joining us, Madame Secretary. SECRETARY RICE: It’s a pleasure to be with you. QUESTION: And I’m here with our State Department reporter Charles Wolfson. Good morning, Charlie. QUESTION: ...
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Remarks With Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier After Their Meeting Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 20, 2007 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I'm delighted to welcome my Canadian colleague Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier from Ottawa to spend time here with me at the State Department. We've just recently saw each other in Paris at the donors conference for the Palestinians and then just a little before that at Annapolis for the Annapolis conference on Middle ...
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Remarks on Trip to G-8 Foreign Ministers meeting Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press En Route To Rome, Italy July 17, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Let me just start by noting the passing of Kay Graham who was something of a Washington legend, but to me she was a dear friend. I�ve known her for many years, when I first sort of sprung out of the army and showed up in Washington circles in 1987, she was one of the first persons who kind of took me in, and befriended me at that level and in that circle...
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