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Administrator Samantha Power’s Remarks to Press

I just completed an amazing hike with remarkable young people who bring really diverse histories, really diverse perspectives, come from different communities here in Kosovo, but share a desire to see the common humanity in everybody.



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Administrator Samantha Power Holds a Press Availability in Kravarice, Kosovo

Good afternoon, everybody. I am thrilled to be here in Kosovo with our Ambassador and our USAID Mission Director, and members of our team.


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Administrator Samantha Power’s Remarks to Press

I'm someone who has a long history in this region. I was a journalist in the former Yugoslavia, you might say, in the early to mid 1990s, and traveled to Serbia at that time and spent a couple months here off and on during the war time.


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Administrator Samantha Power speaks with Radio Television Serbia

ADMINISTRATOR POWER: Well, one of the first things I did – the first thing I did when I got off the plane here in Belgrade, my first time back, literally in decades was to go right to the school to lay flowers and try to pay my respects on my own behalf and on the behalf of President Biden, and behalf of the American people.


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Administrator Samantha Power Holds a Press Conference in Belgrade, Serbia

Dobar dan. It is wonderful to be back in Serbia – for me, for the first time in more than a quarter century, I believe.


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Administrator Samantha Power at an Innovation Hub in Belgrade

Hvala vam puno. Dobro veče. Bila sam novinarka ovde u bivšoj Jugoslaviji, back in the day. Thank you very much. Good evening. I was a journalist here, in ex Yugoslavia, back in the day.


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USAID, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, to Host Diia in DC Event on US-Ukraine Partnership for E-Government Innovation

On Tuesday, May 23 at 10 a.m. EDT, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation will host the first-ever Diia in DC event.


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Administrator Samantha Power Concludes Trip to Kosovo

On her last day in Kosovo, USAID Administrator Samantha Power met the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Vjosa Osmani. Administrator Power emphasized the U.S. government’s commitment to supporting Kosovo’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration and discussed the importance of normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.


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Administrator Samantha Power and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti Launch Kosovo’s First Ever Solar Auction

Today, Administrator Samantha Power joined Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo Albin Kurti and Minister of Economy Artane Rizvanolli to announce Kosovo's first-ever solar auction.




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Administrator Samantha Power Visits Belgrade, Meets with President Vučić and Prime Minister Brnabić

Administrator Samantha Power started her second day in Belgrade with a meeting with President Aleksandar Vučić.


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USAID Heralds Over $135M in New Private Sector Commitments for Climate Smart Innovation at the AIM for Climate Summit

Today, during the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) Summit, USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman spotlighted USAID’s Innovation Sprints to increase investments in climate-smart agriculture.


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On World Press Freedom Day, the U.S. Department of State Announces More Than 200 Journalists from Over 100 Countries and Territories to Participate in Flagship Journalism Exchange in 2023

Release: Recognizing the vital role a free press plays in a free and democratic society, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announced today - on World Press Freedom Day - that more than 200 emerging journalists from over 100 countries and territories will participate...


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Children and Armed Conflict in Nigeria and/or Ethiopia

Release: This is the announcement of funding opportunity number: SFOP0009765.


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DRL Support for Recently Exiled Cuban Human Rights Defenders

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Support for Recently Exiled Cuban Human Rights Defenders. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009705. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345...


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Notice of Funding Opportunity: DRL Media Literacy in Europe

Release: This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009739.


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Secretary Antony J. Blinken at Freedom House 2023 Annual Awards Ceremony

Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Thank you very, very much. Good evening, everyone.


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DRL Enabling Workers’ Rights through a Just Transition

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Enabling Workers’ Rights through a Just Transition. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009691. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345.