Secretary Remarks

Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Vienna, Austria May 17, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody, and let me begin by thanking the Government of Austria again. They have very generously facilitated this latest meeting of the International Syria Support Group and they’ve facilitated two rounds before this. I want to express my appreciation to the co-chair of the task force, Sergey Lavrov, and to Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura. They have both been obviously integrally...

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Regions: Australia , Austria , Canada , France , Iran , Iraq , Libya , Russia , Spain , Syria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Countering Terrorism, Energy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

Special Briefing John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC May 3, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. QUESTION: Good morning? What? QUESTION: Good afternoon. Yes? SECRETARY KERRY: That too. QUESTION: Are you still on Geneva time? SECRETARY KERRY: That too. In Geneva time, it’s good evening. Anyway. So before we get started today, I want to just quickly say something about the situation in Syria. As you all know, yesterday I returned from Geneva, where I met with two key partners and ...

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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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Topics: Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

Interview With the Fox News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York City September 25, 2007 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, I turn it over to you to kind of take over, and whenever you want we'll fire some questions. SECRETARY RICE: Great. Well, thanks very much for having me here, and mostly we should just go directly to whatever questions you might have. I'm sure that'll take us into lots of different areas. QUESTION: Well, what's the status - on or off the record? SECRETARY RICE: We're on the...

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Topics: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation, The Ocean and Polar Affairs