Search Results:  Yemen  (25)

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani Before Their Meeting

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    Treaty Room

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good morning, everyone.  It is, as always, a pleasure to receive the prime minister here at the State Department in Washington.

    Qatar has been an exceptional partner for the United States, and today we’ll be having our strategic dialogue, going through the many issues that we’re working on together, both on a bilateral basis, a regional basis, and a global basis.  And Qatar has been c

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Israel , Qatar , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Energy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a Joint Press Availability

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  First, let me say what a pleasure it is as always to have Secretary General Stoltenberg here in Washington at the State Department.  Let me first note the drone attack yesterday by Iranian-backed militia on U.S. forces in Jordan.  It killed three of our soldiers, wounded many others. First and foremost, I’m thinking of those who lost the

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    Regions: Canada , China, Egypt , Finland , Hungary , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Korea, North , Qatar , Russia , Sweden , Syria , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken At a Conversation with Thomas Friedman

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Davos, Switzerland

    World Economic Forum

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at a Joint Press Availability

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Doha, Qatar

    Diwan Annex

    PRIME MINISTER AL THANI:  (Via interpreter) In the name of Allah, peace and blessings be upon you.  I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, in Doha.  In our meeting today, we have discussed the most significant development in the region – on top of them, the war that continued for three month in Gaza and the Palestinian occupied territory, with all its political, hu

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    Regions: France , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Qatar , Syria , United States , West Bank

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) “The Power and Purpose of American Diplomacy in a New Era”

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.  Good morning, everyone.

    AUDIENCE:  Good morning.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Dean Steinberg, Jim, thank you for the honor of joining the SAIS community to help inaugurate this truly magnificent new home.

    Jim has contributed so much over his remarkable career, but his most lasting contribution is the generation of thinkers, the generation of d

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    Regions: Armenia , Australia , Canada , China, Ethiopia , France , India , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Italy , Japan , Korea, North , Lebanon , New Zealand , Russia , Sweden , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Meeting with U.S. Mission to the United Nations Personnel

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    New York, New York

    United States Mission to the UN

    AMBASSADOR THOMAS-GREENFIELD:  Good morning, everyone, and thank you.  Thank you for sitting.  Thank you, Mr. Secretary.  I want to start by thanking all of you for making time together today as one mission, and I’m so delighted to see all of you here at one place, at one time.  I think this is our first time getting together officially in person, Mr. Secretary, here on the 22nd floor as

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    Regions: Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at a Joint Press Availability

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    Benjamin Franklin Room

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good morning or, almost, good afternoon, everyone.  Just over a year ago, the leaders of Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed the Abraham Accords.  Today, I am honored to host Foreign Minister Lapid, Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah, to review the progress that’s been made in the past year in the normalization of relations, and what more

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    Regions: China, Egypt , Iran , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Russia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Opening Remarks by Secretary Antony J. Blinken Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    106 Dirksen Senate Office Building

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.  Ranking Member Risch, thank you very much.  And to all members, I appreciate the opportunity to be with all of you today to discuss our policy on Afghanistan, including where we are, how we got here, and where we’re going in the weeks and months ahead.

    For 20 years, Congress has conducted oversight and pr

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Korea, North , Qatar , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Opening Remarks by Secretary Antony J. Blinken Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    2172 Rayburn House Office Building

    September 13, 2021

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.  And Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, thank you for today.  I welcome this opportunity to discuss our policy on Afghanistan, including where we are, how (inaudible), and where we’re going in the weeks and months ahead.

    For 20 years, Congress has conducted oversight and provided funding fo

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Korea, North , Qatar , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Jake Tapper of State of the Union on CNN

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    QUESTION:  Joining us now to discuss, Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  Secretary Blinken, thanks so much for joining us.  Take a listen to what President Biden was saying less than six weeks ago: 

    QUESTION:  “Your own Intelligence Community has assessed that the Afghan Government will likely collapse.”

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Chuck Todd of Meet the Press on NBC

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    QUESTION:  Secretary Blinken, welcome back to Meet the Press, sir.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thanks for having me on, Chuck. 

    QUESTION:  So what is happening right now in Kabul?  We have reports that the Taliban and the Afghan Government are in negotiations for a – what they – what the Taliban is referring to as a potent

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Iraq , United Kingdom

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi Before Their Meeting

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, DC

    Treaty Room

     

    SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. It is very good to welcome my friend, Ayman Safadi, the foreign minister of Jordan, here to the State Department and to Washington. Needless to say, we’re very focused on the situation in Israel, West Bank, Gaza, very deeply concerned about the rocket attacks that we are seeing now that need to stop and need to stop immediately, and also, of cou

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    Regions: Jordan , Libya , United States , West Bank

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at a Joint Press Availability

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    London, United Kingdom

    No. 9 Downing

    FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thank you for joining us.  It’s a huge pleasure to welcome Secretary of State Blinken to the UK.  Tony, it’s great to have you here with us.

    SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you.

    FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Warm welcome.  I think it’s fair to say the Biden administration is barely a hundred days old but h

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Belarus , Brunei , Canada , China, Hong Kong , Iran , Ireland , Korea, North , Korea, South , Russia , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Jake Tapper of CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    QUESTION:  We begin now with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  Thanks so much for joining us, Mr. Secretary.  We appreciate your time.  So let’s just start right there.  The U.S. just announced that it will share up to 60 million COVID vaccine doses with other countries soon.  Today, President Biden indicated that India will get some of those.

    How is the Biden administration going to prioritize which countries

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, India , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Russia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken with Judy Woodruff of PBS NewsHour

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    QUESTION: Secretary of State Tony Blinken, welcome to the NewsHour. Thank you very much for joining us. The world looks a lot more complicated today, I think it’s fair to say, than it did just a few months ago. There are problems bubbling up just about everywhere. And in your statement today, you made a clear focus on American workers right here at home. Explain how that connects to what the U.S. challenges are around the world.<

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    Regions: Afghanistan, China, Iran , Saudi Arabia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken with Wolf Blitzer of CNN’s The Situation Room

    Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

    Washington, DC

    QUESTION:  Joining us now here in The Situation Room, the new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.  Mr. Secretary, congratulations.  Thanks so much for joining us.  I know you’ve got a lot on your plate; we’re grateful to you for taking a few moments to discuss these issues with us.  I know you’ve already outlined some aspects of what’s being described as the emerging Biden doctrine.  What are the biggest differences, from

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    Regions: China, Iran , Israel , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo with Taher Baraka of Al-Arabiya

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    QUESTION:  Thank you for joining us, Mr. Secretary of

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    Regions: Hong Kong , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Syria , United Kingdom , United States

  • The Return of UN Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    The Trump Administration has always understood that the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East comes from Islamic Republic of Iran, whose violent efforts to spread revolution have killed thousands and upended the lives of millions of innocent people. History shows appeasement only emboldens such regimes. Thus today, the United States welcomes the return of virtually all previously terminated UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leadin

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    Regions: Iran , Iraq , Lebanon , United States , Yemen

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo At a Press Availability

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    New York City, New York

    United Nations

    SECRETARY POMPEO: Good afternoon, everyone. Just a few minutes ago, I delivered letters to both the UN Secretary-General Guterres and to the president of the Security Council.

    I notified them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all UN sanctions on Iran lifted under UN Security Council Resolution 2231. This process will lead to those sanctions coming back into effec

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    Regions: China, Dominican Republic , France , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Russia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Treaties and International Agreements

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo at a Press Availability

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    Washington, D.C.

    Press Briefing Room

    SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  Hope everybody had a great 4th of July celebrating the founding of this great country, and a week from today I’ll be in Philadelphia talking about the work of the Unalienable Rights Commission.  I’m looking forward to that.

    A belated happy birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who celebrated his 85th birthday on Monday of this week.

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    Topics: Climate and Environment, Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo at the UN Security Council on the Iran Arms Embargo

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    Washington, DC

    SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thank you, Nicolas.  Thanks for the couple words in English there.  I appreciate that.

    Good morning, everyone.  Good to see you, Secretary General.  Rosemary, thank you for your comments this morning.  I would like to say you made some comments about humanitarian assistance inside of Iran.  The United States has tried to facilitate that, in light of the COVID issues inside of Iran.  Indeed, we of

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Australia , China, France , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Russia , Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen

    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo at a Press Availability

    Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

    Washington, DC

    Press Briefing Room

    SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  It’s been 128 days since Chinese doctor Ai Fen – the director of the Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency unit – shared information on the internet about a patient with a SARS-like virus.  Her colleague, Dr. Li Wenliang, shared Dr. Ai’s report online with medical colleagues.

    The next day, December 31st, regional health officials in Wuhan indicated

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Australia , Bangladesh , China, France , Hong Kong , India , Iran , Israel , South Africa , Spain , Sudan , Syria , Taiwan , United Kingdom , United States , Venezuela

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Remarks to the Press At a Press Availability

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    Topics: Countering Terrorism, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo At the International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards Ceremony

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    Regions: Afghanistan, Bolivia , Burkina Faso , Ethiopia , Malaysia , Syria , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Global Women's Issues, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • The Restoration of Deterrence: The Iranian Example

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

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