From April 17-18, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (INR) Brett Holmgren will travel to Seattle, Washington.  He will deliver remarks on INR’s mission at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and will participate in recruitment activities, meeting with faculty and students to highlight the opportunities and […]

The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will deliver remarks followed by a brief Q and A session at the 18th Annual NATO Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation, on April 18, 2023, from 09:30 – 10:10 a.m. EDT at the Department […]

Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in her keynote address at the U.S.-Ukraine Partnership Forum on Thursday that “support for Ukraine is an investment in our own security and our own prosperity and the world that we and our children want to live in.”  That’s why the Department of State, USAID, the Department of […]

The United States welcomes the release of nearly 900 detainees from all sides of the Yemen conflict. This release reunifies hundreds of families ahead of Eid al-Fitr and takes place amidst a 13-month period of calm initiated by the UN-mediated truce. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated this prisoner release […]

The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel: Following Argentine President Alberto Fernandez’s March 29 meeting with the President, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today in Buenos Aires with Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and recognized 200 years of diplomatic relations between the nations.  They discussed Argentina’s key role in the region […]

PRIME MINISTER PHAM: (Via interpreter) Mr. Secretary of State, I am delighted to welcome you to Vietnam and to see you again here in my country, and I highly appreciate your arrangement of your time for this visit.  It is a – I do believe that this visit was previously arranged for last year, however due […]