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Interview With Wendell Goler of FOX
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 11:12 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: I think it was an important beginning. It was an opportunity for us to be able to assess what is happening here. It comes after about 20 trips from high-level American officials who have visited many different people, heard ... More >>
Inaugural Meeting of Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 11:09 am | US State Department
On Monday, December 19th, Secretary Clinton will host the first meeting of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Board is composed of 25 members who will meet at the Department of State periodically to discuss issues of high priority for the Secretary and the ... More >>
Remarks at the Bonn Conference Center
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 11:03 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Okay Well, good afternoon, everyone. We have some more seats. This has been a very full and productive day here in Bonn, and I want to touch on a few key points. First, I want to express our appreciation to the German Government, ... More >>
Interview With Kristen Welker of NBC
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:25 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: I think it was an important meeting for both substantive and symbolic reasons. Obviously, I was thrilled to finally meet her. She felt like an old friend that I was seeing again after some long absence. But it was personally ... More >>
Interview With Jill Dougherty of CNN
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:24 am | US State Department
QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, thank you very much for taking time out. This is a busy trip, historic, really. I wanted to start with Aung San Suu Kyi. It must – I would like to know what it was like to see her face to face. There was obviously ... More >>
The Human Rights Council's Special Session on Syria
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:20 am | US State Department
Today, the Human Rights Council in Geneva took decisive action to reinforce the Syrian Government’s isolation and draw attention to the Asad regime’s unacceptable and brutal treatment of the Syrian people, including its many peaceful protestors. The ... More >>
Background Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Meetings in Burma
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:15 am | US State Department
MODERATOR: We are in Rangoon. The Secretary has had a full day of meetings today with Aung San Suu Kyi, with representatives of civil societies of the ethnic minority groups, and we thought we’d just give you a sense of how some of those went, with ... More >>
Two-Year Mark of the Continued Incarceration of Alan Gross
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:10 am | US State Department
Tomorrow Alan Gross will begin his third year of unjustified imprisonment in Cuba. He was arrested on December 3, 2009 and later given a 15 year prison sentence by Cuban authorities for simply facilitating connectivity between Havana’s Jewish ... More >>
Interview With Kim Ghattas of BBC
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:06 am | US State Department
QUESTION: As usual, we’re very delighted to be here with you in Burma. It’s very special for the BBC to be in the country. More >>
Interview With Michele Kelemen of NPR
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:04 am | US State Department
QUESTION: I want to ask you first about just being at the house, Aung San Suu Kyi’s house, where she spent so much time under house arrest. How did it feel for you? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, in one way, it was familiar to me because I had seen pictures ... More >>
Press Availability in Rangoon, Burma
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:02 am | US State Department
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, let me begin by saying that as the first American Secretary of State to visit here in over 50 years, I am delighted to have a chance to reflect on my visit and what we would like to see going forward. Now, before I arrived, I ... More >>
Compact of Free Association with the Republic of Palau
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:58 pm | US State Department
Our Compact with Palau took effect in 1994. It does not have a termination date and requires a review on the 15-year, 30-year, and 40-year anniversaries. Our two governments worked closely over 20 months of discussions and negotiations to conclude the recent15-year ... More >>
United States Helps Croatia Improve Arms Stockpile Security
Friday, 2 December 2011, 10:47 am | US State Department
The United States is investing $1 million in support of Croatia as it safely disposes of its remaining inventory of 71 out-of-date man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) and improves the physical security and stockpile management of its arms and munitions ... More >>
Near East: Daily Press Briefing - November 30, 2011
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 1:12 pm | US State Department
• Department o President Announced Intent To Nominate Rick Barton To Be Assistant Secretary For The Bureau Of Conflict And Stabilization Operations, Cso • Iran o Uk Embassy In Iran / Sovereign Decision To Protect Their Own Civilians, Diplomats ... More >>
Women Programme Global Development Alliance
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 12:35 pm | US State Department
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, today announced a new three-year partnership with the GSMA mWomen Programme to increase mobile phone ownership among women in the developing world. The partnership ... More >>
The Special Session on Gender at Aid Effectiveness Forum
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 5:01 pm | US State Department
Achieving our internationally agreed development goals requires accelerated progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment. A growing body of evidence shows that empowering women and reducing gender gaps in health, education, labor markets, and ... More >>
Aid Transparency
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 4:57 pm | US State Department
On his first-full day in office, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, committing his Administration to making the federal government more efficient and effective. Since then, federal agencies have done much to make ... More >>
Partnership for Growth
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 4:49 pm | US State Department
Partnership for Growth (PFG) is a partnership between the United States and a select group of countries to accelerate and sustain broad-based economic growth by putting into practice the principles of President Obama’s September 2010 Presidential Policy ... More >>
Al-Shabaab Announcement in Somalia
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 4:44 pm | US State Department
The United States is extremely concerned by al-Shabaab’s announcement yesterday that it is banning a number of United Nations (UN) agencies and international nongovernmental organizations from providing life-saving assistance in south central Somalia and ... More >>
Address to the Sixteenth Conference of the States Parties
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 4:41 pm | US State Department
I am pleased to be here among so many colleagues at the Sixteenth Conference of the States Parties. I warmly welcome our new Chairman, Ambassador Paul Arkwright. I have every confidence in his ability to guide us skillfully through our full agenda this ... More >>
