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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Riga, Latvia

ATTA Center

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  It’s a great pleasure, as always, to be here with my friend and colleague, Mevlüt.  We’ve been sitting together for the last day and a  half, and we both thought it was important to be able to compare notes directly on many things that we’ve already talked about with our allies, including the situation in Ukraine and around Ukraine, including what we just talked

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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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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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Wendy R. Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State

Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Director of the German Marshall Fund

Irene Braam, Executive Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation

Provided courtesy of the German Marshall Fund

Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Paris office: Good afternoon, and good morning to all of you who are joining us from both sides of the Atlantic. I am Alexandra De Hoop Scheffer, director o

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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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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in comments at the MED Dialogue, accused the United States of playing political games in the Mediterranean and stalling the appointment of a new UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya.  It’s unfortunate and unhelpful that Mr. Lavrov again gets the facts wrong and attempts to rewrite history.

The United States is working actively with allies and partners in the Eastern Medit

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  (In progress) — stands for the rule of law, democracy, freedom of expression.  We drive economic growth through innovation.  We protect our people.

And our way of life is the envy for the entire world.

Look at the freedoms for which the people of Belarus and Iran and Hong Kong risk beatings and imprisonment.

Look at the countries to which refugees from Libya and Syria decid

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

En Route to Shannon, Ireland

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Greetings, everyone.

QUESTION:  Hello.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  How are you all?

QUESTION:  Hello.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Well, that was a – I thought it was a great trip.  We accomplished just about everything we were hoping to do.  We were back in Europe leading from the front this time, talking about s

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION:  Now, one of the targets of that smear, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, joins me exclusively now.  Mr. Secretary, great to see you.  Now, I know you feel that Rice’s remarks show a lack of restraint that our country can’t afford to have back in the White House.  Explain all that.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Laura, thanks for having me on.  To hear Ambassador Rice talk that way is just crazy.  Sh

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. Good to be with you all today. I want to start my remarks, as I often do, on matters relating to China.

As many of you saw, I met with Yang Jiechi last week in Hawaii.

We had a very frank discussion about the Chinese Communist Party’s unprovoked aggression on a number of fronts and I pressed him for more transparency on COVID for the good

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