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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 Antony J. Blinken With Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Andrea Mitchell, and Katy Kay of Morning Joe on MSNBC

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: Uzbekistan

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...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Maldives

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...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Senegal

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Senegal. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing audits of the entire annual executed budget within a reasonable period. The budget was widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. The budget was substantially...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sao Tome and Principe

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sao Tome and Principe.

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Pakistan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Pakistan. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. It did not publish its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period. Only limited information on...

12th U.S.-EU Space Dialogue Held in Brussels

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: Dominican Republic

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Dominican Republic. During the review period, the government published an executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. Budget and information on debt obligations were widely and easily accessible to the public...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Zambia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Zambia. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report accessible to the public, including online. Publicly available budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Gabon

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Gabon. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its enacted budget online within a reasonable period. It did not make its executive budget proposal or its end-of-year report publicly available within a reasonable period. Only...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Comoros

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Comoros. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its end-of-year report within a reasonable period and by reviewing its budget throughout the fiscal year. The government made its enacted budget available, but it did not make...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Lesotho

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Lesotho. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget publicly available within a reasonable period. The government did not, however, publish its budget proposal or end-of-year report within a reasonable period. The government published information...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Ethiopia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Ethiopia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring its newly established sovereign wealth fund has a. sound legal framework and discloses its source of funding and general approach to withdrawals. While the government published...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Somalia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Somalia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by reviewing its budget throughout the fiscal year. The government published its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. Information...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Vietnam

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Vietnam. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report accessible to the public, including online. Information on debt obligations of state-owned enterprises was not publicly available. Publicly...

Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Bitter Travel to Canada

Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter will travel June 28-30 to Toronto and Ottawa. The Assistant Secretary will meet with embassy staff and observe consular operations in both cities. Her trip underscores our deep and sustained commitment to the protection of U.S. citizens overseas and the facilitation of legitimate travel and immigration to the United States. For updates on Assistant Secretary Bitter’s travel follow @TravelGov on Twitter.

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Guinea-Bissau

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Guinea-Bissau. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available within a reasonable period. However, it did not make all budget documents...

2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Laos

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Laos. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal publicly available online, but not within a reasonable period. It did not publish its enacted budget or end-of-year report. The completeness and reliability of budget information could...

The United States Issues an Advisory Focused on the Gold Sector Across Sub-Saharan Africa