News from June 2023
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Maldives
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Maldives. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing an audit report of the entire annual executed budget within a reasonable period. Budget documents were made widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Budget...
12th U.S.-EU Space Dialogue Held in Brussels
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Hosted by the European Union, officials from the United States and the European Union met for the 12th U.S.-EU Space Dialogue June 26-27 in Brussels, Belgium. The delegations discussed cooperation on a wide range of space activities including growing security concerns, space cybersecurity and space situational...
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Uzbekistan
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Uzbekistan. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report widely and easily accessible to the public, including online, but not its executive budget proposal. Information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise...
McCaul Demands Blinken to Produce Missing Afghanistan After-Action Review Files
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: I wrote to you on June 8 and 20, 2023, regarding the Department of State’s (the Department) continued failure to produce requested documents and information regarding the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In those letters, I warned that I was prepared...
Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Andrea Mitchell, and Katy Kay of Morning Joe on MSNBC
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: QUESTION: It’s a pressure campaign against Taiwan. For more on all of this, let’s bring in United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Also with us, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Thank you both for joining us.
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Tajikistan
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Tajikistan. During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring the supreme audit institution effectively follows up on findings. The government also made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report widely and...
Secretary Blinken to Deliver Remarks at a Reception in Honor of Pride Month
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: In honor of Pride Month, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will host a reception on Thursday, June 29, at 5:00 p.m. EDT in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the Department of State. The Secretary will deliver remarks which will be open to the press and streamed live on www.state.gov and www.YouTube.com/statedept.
Delegation of Authority No. 540; Delegation of Authority International Broadcasting Advisory Board discussed on June 28 by State Department
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
The US State Department published a one page notice on June 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Turkmenistan
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Turkmenistan. During the review period, budget documents and information on debt obligations were not made public, including for state-owned enterprises. The government published aggregate revenue data online in its state-run newspaper. Publicly available budget...
Secretary Antony J. Blinken in a Conversation With Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
News Release: MR HAASS: It is June 28, 2023, and I want to welcome the several hundred people in the room here today, in New York, and the far larger number watching around the country and the world. I want to welcome everyone to the Council on Foreign Relations. For those of you who aren’t familiar with us, we’re ...
McCaul Demands Blinken to Produce Missing Afghanistan After-Action Review Files
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: I wrote to you on June 8 and 20, 2023, regarding the Department of State’s (the Department) continued failure to produce requested documents and information regarding the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In those letters, I warned that I was prepared...
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sao Tome and Principe
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sao Tome and Principe.
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Bangladesh
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Bangladesh. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget publicly available, including online. It did not make its end-of-year report publicly available within a reasonable period. Information in the budget was considered...
2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Afghanistan
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2023
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Afghanistan. On Aug. 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Kabul. The U.S. government has not yet decided whether to recognize the Taliban or any other entity as the Government of Afghanistan or as part of such a government. During the review period, the pre-August 15...
Condemning Republika Srpska Actions that Undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2023
Release: The Republika Srpska National Assembly adopted a law this week intended to nullify the Constitutional Court’s authority in the entity. This law violates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitution, and runs counter to the Dayton Peace Agreement. Defiance of the Constitutional Court threatens not just the ...
Seychelles National Day
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2023
Release: Congratulations to the people of Seychelles on the forty-seventh anniversary of your independence.
McCaul, Hagerty: U.S. Tech Found in CCP Spy Balloon ‘Heightens Our Concerns’
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance Ranking Member Bill Hagerty (R-TN) issued the following statement on news that U.S. technology was found in the recent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy balloon that violated American sovereignty and traversed the United States for eight days.
McCaul, Hagerty: U.S. Tech Found in CCP Spy Balloon ‘Heightens Our Concerns’
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance Ranking Member Bill Hagerty (R-TN) issued the following statement on news that U.S. technology was found in the recent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy balloon that violated American sovereignty and traversed the United States for eight days.
IRFBA Chair’s Statement on Nicaragua Religious Prisoner of Conscience, Bishop Rolando Álvarez
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2023
Release: As the Chair of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, I express my grave concern at the unjust imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, a Bishop of the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Matagalpa and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Estelí, in Nicaragua. Notwithstanding the...