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US Daily Press Briefing - October 20
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 10:29 am | US State Department
MR. KELLY: Okay. Well, welcome and good afternoon. Let me make a few comments at the top, both regarding Afghanistan. You saw the Secretary’s statement a little earlier where she welcomes President Karzai’s announcement that he accepts the ... More >>
Remarks With Iraqi Prime Minister
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 12:45 pm | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. It is a pleasure for me to welcome the prime minister back to Washington to keep building and deepening the partnership between our nations. It is a partnership based on the goal of a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq, ... More >>
Remarks at Reception for Civil Society Leaders
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:20 am | US State Department
Good afternoon. And I wanted to thank (inaudible) for welcoming us all here at the Spaso House. I feel deeply honored to have a chance to meet with you this afternoon and express to you how highly I regard the work that you are doing on behalf of your ... More >>
Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:20 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon. I want to start by thanking Minister Lavrov for hosting me in Moscow today, along with my delegation. We have had a very productive and comprehensive set of discussions. This follows on the work that we began over ... More >>
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:19 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much for that warm welcome. I am delighted to be here, along with a very committed team from America. Since you and I first met in New York back in the spring and our presidents (inaudible) moving forward on a strategic ... More >>
US Remarks With New Zealand Foreign Minister
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:35 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon, everyone, and join me, please, in welcoming Foreign Minister McCully to the State Department. We’ve had the opportunity to talk on several occasions and reaffirm the strong partnership between the United ... More >>
Background Briefing on Burma
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:12 pm | US State Department
OPERATOR: Welcome, and thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. During the question and answer session, please *1 on your touchtone phone. Today’s conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, ... More >>
On-the-Record Briefing to the Press
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:11 pm | US State Department
MR. CROWLEY: We don’t have that much time, so we’ll forego all introductions. You know who the speaker is, but with – there’s been a lot of focus on Afghanistan this week, but we thought today, it might be appropriate to kind of help you understand ... More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 24
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:10 pm | US State Department
I’d like to make just a very brief statement before we begin and publicly thank the Government of New Zealand, in particular, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, for sending a C-130 Hercules aircraft down to – down from Christchurch to rescue an ... More >>
Briefing by Assistant Secretary for Population
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:06 pm | US State Department
MODERATOR: Thanks. I want to just very quickly introduce who’s going to be speaking today. First will be Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Eric Schwartz, and from USAID we have the Acting Assistant Administrator for Africa Earl ... More >>
Female Heads of State and Foreign Ministers Lunch
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:05 pm | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much. I was stuck in traffic because so many heads of state and heads of government are leaving to go to Pittsburgh, so I was at the United Nations for a meeting and just – all traffic ... More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 24
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:04 pm | US State Department
MR. KELLY: Good afternoon. I’d like to make just a very brief statement before we begin and publicly thank the Government of New Zealand, in particular, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, for sending a C-130 Hercules aircraft down to – down from ... More >>
Remarks At United Nations After P-5+1 Meeting
Monday, 28 September 2009, 2:03 pm | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: (In progress) to give you brief readouts on two meetings this afternoon. The first was a meeting I participated in called by Security Council Ban Ki-moon about the policies and approaches toward Burma. A number of countries were ... More >>
Secretary's Remarks: Saudi National Day
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:52 pm | US State Department
On behalf of the people of the United States and President Obama, I would like to congratulate the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud, and the people of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of your national day. More >>
Remarks at the Transatlantic Dinner
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:47 pm | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, let me welcome all of you to this Transatlantic Dinner. It is a real pleasure to see so many friends and colleagues both from the EU and NATO. We have the opportunity several times a year to come together to talk about ... More >>
Launch of Inter-American Social Protection Network
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:46 pm | US State Department
Thank you very much and good morning. We are absolutely delighted to be part of this launch of the Inter-American Social Protection Network. And I am one of those who will have to leave shortly after our presentations, but I am delighted to see so ... More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 22
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:45 pm | US State Department
QUESTION: Yesterday night, Micheletti said that this San Jose agreement is dead because in the moment that Zelaya came into Honduras, this agreement has no sense. Is any position or there – is there any answer from the U.S. Government about this? More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 17
Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:20 pm | US State Department
First, talking about the Secretary’s activities today, she was up on the Hill this morning consulting with the ranking member and – chairs and ranking members of judiciary subcommittees regarding a proposed refugee admissions report for FY 2010. ... More >>
The Annual State Department Iftar Dinner
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 4:31 pm | US State Department
Good evening and Ramadan Kareem. I am delighted to welcome all of you here for this evening’s Iftar . Actually, we started in 1996 and held the first Ramadan Eid celebration at the White House. Some of you were at that celebration, and it is wonderful to ... More >>
Daily Press Briefing - September 15
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 4:30 pm | US State Department
MR. KELLY: I was able to speak this morning with my colleague, and he said they had a good meeting, lasted over two hours. They agreed at the end of the meeting that they would meet again tomorrow. After the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, ... More >>
