Informal Communication

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Arlington, Virginia

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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.

Benjamin Franklin Room

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon.  Welcome.  Welcome back to the State Department for so many of you.  Welcome to the Ben Franklin Room, newly refurbished.  A lot went into this.  And I think maybe a word about Ben Franklin before we get to today’s event.

As you all know, he was America’s first diplomat, ambassador to France, negotiated our first treaty, charted the Gulf Stream, pioneered el

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Rayburn House Office Building

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Chairman Meeks, Ranking Member McCaul, thank you.  Thank you for having me here today to speak about the administration’s proposed budget for the State Department, but thank you more broadly —

MR CHABOT:  Secretary, could you pull the mike a little closer, maybe?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Yes, sorry.  That better?  L

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

HT-2 The Capitol

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you very much, Chairwoman Lee.  It’s great to see you.  Ranking Member Rogers, Ranking Member Granger, thank you for being here today as well.  It’s very good to be with you, and I’m really grateful for this opportunity to speak to you about the administration’s proposed budget for the State Department.

As you know, I recently returned from Kyiv with Secretary of

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Good to see you all.

I suspect that most of you are looking forward to what will be a well-deserved break.  It’s been quite a year.

When I walked into the State Department on my first day as Secretary, we had COVID-19 lockdowns around the world.

Less than 1 percent of the United States was vaccinated, compared to more than 60

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Jakarta, Indonesia

U.S. Embassy Jakarta

AMBASSADOR KIM:  (Applause.)  Great.  Thank you very much.  That was an amazing performance.  I had no idea that our mission was so talented musically.

Look, I’m really excited and grateful that the Secretary is visiting us.  In fact, in warmly welcoming the Secretary to Indonesia yesterday, President Jokowi said the Secretary’s visit is a clear demonstration of America’s commitment

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Glasgow, United Kingdom

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon.  It is a great pleasure to join all of you for what is the official launch of the U.S. Center here at COP26.  And I just want to thank everyone across the U.S. Government who made all of this happen.

Over the next two weeks, we will be hosting dozens of conversations, bringing together hundreds of people here in Glasgow, and thousands more online to step up o

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Bogotá, Colombia

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Hello, Mission Bogotá.  It is great to see all of you, and so good to see folks here together.  Again, to the band, it really does a sound a lot better than the last time I heard it.  (Laughter.)  Amazing.  Thank you.

Phil, Ambassador Goldberg, could have sworn he was here somewhere, thank you so much for your leadership of this miss

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Quito, Ecuador

Swissôtel Quito

MS CALDERON:  Before we start, I want to say hello to our colleagues in Guayaquil – hello, Guayaquil – and all the rest of the embassy community that are with us through Webex.  Okay.  So let’s start.

Now, please, let me introduce someone that not needs too much presentation, our big boss, Ambassador Fitzpatrick.  (Applause.)

AMBASSADOR FITZPATRICK:  Muchas gracias