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Joint Press Availability With Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Monday, 14 October 2013, 3:43 pm | US State Department
Afghan and international media, the United States media, welcome to our today’s press conference. And we apologize for making you waiting from morning up to now. Thanks for being so patient. And I’m very happy that today, His Excellency John ... More >>
Background Briefing on Bilateral Security Agreement
Monday, 14 October 2013, 3:42 pm | US State Department
Okay. So we're just going to do a quick backgrounder on the meetings that Secretary Kerry just had in Afghanistan, and a readout of those. And we have Senior State Department Official One, Senior Administration Official One here. And if I have anything, I'll ... More >>
Terrorist Attack at Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya
Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:36 am | US State Department
Today's terrorist massacre of so many innocents is a heartbreaking reminder that there exists unspeakable evil in our world which can destroy life in a senseless instant. I want to express my deepest condolences - and the condolences of our entire ... More >>
Political Situation in Bahrain
Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:35 am | US State Department
For the past two years, with the support of the international community, the Bahraini government and opposition groups have been embarking on an important process of dialogue and reform. More >>
Marie Harf - Daily Press Briefing - September 12
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:47 pm | US State Department
So as you know, the Secretary arrived in Geneva. He has already today met with UN Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi – Brahimi, excuse me – today. He’s about to go into the first plenary session with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. They are ... More >>
John Kerry - Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:43 pm | US State Department
FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) (In progress) – delegations that accompany us. Of course, we would like you to have unbiased ideas about what we are going to do. But I think that you understand well before we start to tell you what we are ... More >>
Background Briefing on Secretary Kerry's Trip to Geneva
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:37 pm | US State Department
So glad to have you onboard as we head to Geneva. So we are headed to Geneva for a meeting with a Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. Obviously, our delegation is led by the Secretary of State John Kerry. More >>
Syria: Weighing the U.S. Response - John Kerry Google Hang
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:31 pm | US State Department
Welcome to a very special Google hangout on the Syria crisis with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Co-hosting with me is Nicholas Kristof, op-ed columnist with The New York Times, and joining us is Andrew Beiter, a social studies teacher at ... More >>
Iraq: Individuals from Camp Ashraf Relocated to Camp Hurriya
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:24 pm | US State Department
The United States welcomes today’s safe arrival at Camp Hurriya of the remaining 42 individuals from the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) who had been residing at Camp Ashraf. More >>
Officials Map Next Steps in U.S.-Chinese Military Relations
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:22 pm | US State Department
U.S. and Chinese officials mapped the next steps in the military-to-military relationship between their nations at the 14th annual defense consultative talks that ended in Beijing on September 9. More >>
Building on U.S. Partnerships in the in the Asia-Pacific
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:21 pm | US State Department
The TPP will boost our economies, lowering barriers to trade and investment, increasing exports, and creating more jobs for our people…the TPP has the potential to be a model not only for the Asia Pacific but for future trade agreements. More >>
Obama Encourages Effort to Control Syrian Chemical Weapons
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:21 pm | US State Department
President Obama said U.S. support for a diplomatic resolution of the crisis in Syria, sparked by the use of poison nerve gas to kill 1,429 civilians, is based on a rapidly developing international effort to take control of the Syrian regime’s sizable ... More >>
Proposed Authorization to Use Military Force in Syria
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:19 pm | US State Department
Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, and distinguished members of the committee, I’m privileged to be here this morning with Secretary Hagel and General Dempsey, and we are all of us – all three of us – very much looking forward to a conversation ... More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 9, 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:18 pm | US State Department
MS. HARF: Hello, everyone. Happy Monday. Welcome to the daily press briefing. I don’t have anything at the top. I’ll go to your questions. QUESTION: Can you – the Secretary’s comments this morning in London, whether or not they were rhetorical ... More >>
Secretary Kerry Google+ Hangout on Syria and U.S. Response
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:16 pm | US State Department
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will participate in a Google+ Hangout hosted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Lara Setrakian, founder of the digital news site Syria Deeply, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10. More >>
The Prague Agenda in 2013 - Challenges and Prospects
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:15 pm | US State Department
It is lovely to be here in Prague. My thanks to the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, First Deputy Minister Jiri Schnider, the Institute of International Relations Prague, the Metropolitan University Prague and the Faculty of Social Sciences from Charles ... More >>
John Kerry With United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Hague
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:13 pm | US State Department
FOREIGN SECRETARY HAGUE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a great pleasure to host my great friend and colleague, John Kerry, here in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office once again. More >>
Security Adviser Rice on Why U.S. Must Act in Syria
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:09 pm | US State Department
In response to Bashar al-Assad’s barbaric use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people, President Obama, after careful consideration, has decided that it is in the national security interest of the United States to conduct limited military strikes ... More >>
Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Star, Planet Lines
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:06 pm | US State Department
In 2011, astronomers on the hunt for the coldest starlike celestial bodies discovered a new class of such objects using NASA’s WISE Space Telescope. But until now, no one knew exactly how cool the bodies’ surfaces really are. In fact, some evidence ... More >>
U.S. Exposes Iranian Attempts to Evade Oil Sanctions
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:04 pm | US State Department
The U.S. Treasury Department has identified a network of six individuals and four businesses as subject to sanctions for attempting to evade oil sanctions placed on Iran’s government. More >>
