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U.S. Daily Press Briefing- Sep 27, 2011
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 11:41 am | US State Department
o U.S. Deeply Disappointed in the Israeli Government's Housing Action/ Urge All Parties to Refrain from Provocative Action/ U.S. Considers the Decision Counter-Productive/ Direct Negotiations the Way Forward/ Discussions with the Quartet and Envoys/ The ... More >>
Burma: Foreign Minister Meeting (Taken Question)
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 2:53 pm | US State Department
Question: Can you please provide a read-out of Assistant Secretary Campbell’s meeting with Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin? More >>
Memo of Understanding With Ukraine on Nuclear Cooperation
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 2:10 pm | US State Department
Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Remarks With Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko Waldorf-Astoria New York, New York More >>
New START Treaty and the CTBT: Fulfilling the Prague Agenda
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:49 am | US State Department
Good afternoon. I am pleased to be here with so many successful, motivated, and patriotic women dedicated to making our nation safer and the world more peaceful. I want to thank Representative Camper for the great introduction. More importantly, I want ... More >>
Memorandum of Understanding with Ukraine on Nuclear Security
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:40 am | US State Department
On September 26, Secretary Clinton signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Gryshchenko on nuclear security cooperation. This Memorandum of Understanding formalizes the shared intent of the United States and Ukraine to implement ... More >>
Secretary's Meetings on Colombia, Vietnam, and the Ukraine
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:35 am | US State Department
First, with regard to her meeting with Colombian Foreign Minister Holguin, it lasted about half an hour. The Secretary opened by thanking Colombia for its leadership, regionally and globally. They discussed the state of the free trade agreement and ... More >>
Background Briefing on China, Lebanon, and Georgia
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:14 am | US State Department
Secretary Clinton began by stating clearly our overarching framework, a desire for a strong, comprehensive, robust relationship between the United States and China. And she underscored the hard work that had been done by the Obama Administration ... More >>
Remarks At UN High-Level Meeting on Somalia
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:57 am | US State Department
Thank you very much, Secretary General. Thanks also to African Union Chairman Ping and to Prime Minister Abdullahi for your remarks. And to all of our colleagues, I have to say I sit through a lot of these meetings, as we all do, but I thought the ... More >>
Background Briefing on Middle East Peace
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:55 am | US State Department
MODERATOR: Thank you, everyone, for joining us this afternoon for this background briefing on Middle East peace issues and the Quartet statement that was just issued. For your records, our briefer tonight is [Senior Administration Official], hereafter ... More >>
U.S. Wins Forest Policy Award
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:52 am | US State Department
For its 2008 Amendments to the Lacey Act, the United States on September 21, 2011 was recognized as a winner of the World Future Council’s 2011 Future Policy Award in New York City The Lacey Act is a 100-year-old law amended to curb international ... More >>
U.S. Response to Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:50 am | US State Department
On September 23, 2011 at the United Nations, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced approximately $42 million in additional humanitarian assistance which includes an additional $30 million for Somalia. More >>
Statement of the Middle East Quartet
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:35 am | US State Department
Following is the text of a statement issued after the meeting of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy ... More >>
CTBT Article XIV Conference
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:33 am | US State Department
I am so pleased to be here representing the United States. When Secretary Clinton came to this conference two years ago, she ended a ten-year absence on the part of our nation. Today, I stand before you proud of the accomplishments that the Obama ... More >>
The Transatlantic Trends 2011
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:28 am | US State Department
Assistant Secretary Gordon: Thanks very much, and thanks to Thomas for the introduction and thanks to GMF for having me back. As Thomas said, this is not my first opportunity to comment on the trends, which I’ve done before, both here and in Paris, and it’s ... More >>
Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:21 am | US State Department
PRESIDENT CLINTON: That’s great. Let’s give them all another hand, that’s terrific. (Applause.) We are now going to proceed to have a conversation between the Secretary of State and her daughter. (Laughter.) More >>
$268 Million for US-Afghanistan Counternarcotics Programs
Monday, 26 September 2011, 1:50 pm | US State Department
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) announced this week an agreement with the Government of Afghanistan that provides approximately $268 million for joint programs promoting rule of law, ... More >>
Remarks at the New Silk Road Ministerial Meeting
Monday, 26 September 2011, 1:48 pm | US State Department
In previous meetings, our discussions have focused largely on the on-going coalition military campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban, and on the political strategy we hope will end the conflict and chart a more peaceful future for the entire region. More >>
Background Briefing on U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council Meeting
Monday, 26 September 2011, 1:46 pm | US State Department
We are delighted today to give you a background briefing on a meeting tomorrow that will be led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Panetta with participation as well from the National Security Council. It is a U.S. plus ... More >>
Remarks at High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Safety
Monday, 26 September 2011, 1:30 pm | US State Department
A member of our international community suffered a great trauma this year. We all followed it with our hearts and our heads trying to understand the consequences of an immense earthquake that sparked a tsunami that in turn created a nuclear crisis. More >>
Remarks on the Global Counterterrorism Forum
Monday, 26 September 2011, 12:04 pm | US State Department
I am delighted to welcome all of you to New York for the launch of the Global Counterterrorism Forum. I am particularly pleased to be joined by Foreign Minister Davutoglu as co-chair. And I want to echo President Obama’s condolences for the lives lost in the recent ... More >>
