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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.
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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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Kyiv, Ukraine
AMBASSADOR BRINK: It is a privilege and an honor for me to be here with you as we give a very, very warm welcome to our Secretary of State, Tony Blinken. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. (Applause.)
As members of Mission Kyiv, we all know the challenges and the demands of this work. The hours are long – sometimes dangerous – and the future can seem uncertain. But we also know why we’re here and we know why it matters. We are h
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Dirksen Senate Office Building
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, thank you very much, Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Risch, committee members. Very good to be with you today as always, and thanks for the opportunity to speak to the administration’s proposed FY24 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development.
We meet at an inflection point and I think that’s reflected actually in what both
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Dirksen Senate Office Building
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very, very much. Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Graham, very good to be with you. Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, to all the committee members here today, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you about our proposed FY24 budget for the State Department and USAID.
And I think as you’ve both laid out in different ways, we are meeting at
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Department of State
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Great to see you folks on the screen. Greetings. It’s a particular pleasure to be with all of you today, and I don’t know if I’m kicking it off or if we have one of our colleagues doing that.
MR MURRAY: I’ll go ahead and get it started for you, Mr. Secretary.
SECRETARY BLINK
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone, and thanks to each of our leaders for being here today. To those joining us from around the world, welcome. I hope to spend as much of this time in discussion with you, so let me be brief at the start. But I want to say why meeting with young leaders at the Summit for Democracy is so important to us and to me.
One of President Biden’s top priorities is ensuring that the voices o
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Doha, Qatar
St. Regis Hotel
AMBASSADOR DESROCHER: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s great to see so many of you here today. We also have colleagues in the multipurpose room back at the embassy. I think we’ve got some people joining from Teams from elsewhere as well, trying to keep in mind all of our COVID protocols.
First of all, Mr. Secretary, thank you for making some time in what is a very busy and very pr
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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Recorded on April 9, 2021
MS FITZSIMMONS: Mr. Secretary, it is my pleasure, my sincere pleasure, to welcome you to the Africa Bureau family, and virtually to U.S. Missions Nigeria and Kenya. My name is Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, and I’m the acting principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs. I have the pleasure of moderating your town hall this morning with our staff posted in Abuja, Lago
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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Well, good afternoon, everyone.
On behalf of the United States, I want to extend our deepest condolences to all those who were affected by the massive explosion at the port of Beirut yesterday. We stand ready to assist the Government of Lebanon and its – as it grapples with this horrible tragedy. You’ll see the United States announce a number of things we intend to do to assist
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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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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Washington, DC
Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO: Good morning, everyone. This morning, early, I had the chance to drive through Arlington Cemetery, and as we approach Memorial Day Weekend, I want to reflect on the sacrifices of our uniformed military who have given their lives in the cause of freedom.
As Secretary of State and an Army veteran, I spend all my days working to use American diplomatic power to secure fre
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