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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mongolia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mongolia. During the review period, the government’s budget and information on debt obligations were widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. The budget was substantially complete and generally reliable. Information on debt obligations, including...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Haiti

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Haiti. During the review period, the government published its enacted budget online within a reasonable period. However, the executive budget proposal was not published online within a reasonable period, and because the finance ministry’s website was down at the...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report:

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Burma. This review period was the first full calendar year of military rule since the military coup in February 2021. During the review period, the military regime did not publish its executive budget proposal or end-of-year report online within a reasonable period,...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Nicaragua

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Nicaragua. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report accessible to the public, including online. It did not publish its executive budget proposal online within a reasonable period. Publicly available budget documents...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: South Sudan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: South Sudan. During the review period, the government published a budget for the first time since 2020, although the executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were delayed. Publicly available budget documents did not include allocations to...


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Secretary Blinken’s Call with Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis

Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mauritania

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mauritania. During the review period, the government made significant progress by subjecting the military and intelligence budget to parliamentary oversight. The enacted budget and end-of-year report were widely and easily accessible to the public, including online...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Congo, Republic of the

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Congo, Republic of the.


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Joint Statement by the Troika on Sudan and South Sudan

Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Norway, and the United Kingdom.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sudan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sudan. This assessment covers activities carried out during the first full year of military authority. Authorities published an enacted budget within a reasonable period, but not an executive budget proposal or end-of-year report. It did not provide information on...


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Inaugural U.S.-Mongolia-ROK Critical Minerals Dialogue Held in Ulaanbaatar

Release: On June 27, 2023, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez held the first-ever U.S.-Mongolia-Republic of Korea (ROK) Critical Minerals Dialogue with Mongolian Minister of Mining and Heavy Industry Ganbaatar Jambal and Republic of Korea 2nd Vice...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Cameroon

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Cameroon. During the review period, the government made significant progress by reviewing its budget throughout the fiscal year. The government published its enacted budget and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period, but not its executive budget proposal.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Guinea

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Guinea. During the review period, the transition government made significant progress by publishing audit reports within a reasonable period. The transition government published its enacted budget and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. Nonetheless...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Azerbaijan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Azerbaijan. During the review period, the executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were publicly available, including online, and generally reliable. They provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s revenues. Budget documents ...


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Secretary Blinken’s Call with Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen

Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sierra Leone

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sierra Leone. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making basic information on natural resource extraction awards publicly available. Budget documents and information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Zimbabwe

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Zimbabwe. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing a timely audit that covered the entire annual executed budget. The government also made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report publicly available...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Suriname

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Suriname. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget easily accessible to the public within a reasonable period, but not its end-of-year report. Information on debt obligations was publicly available, including...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Malawi

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Malawi. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and end-of-year reports publicly available online within a reasonable period. It also resumed publishing its enacted budget within a reasonable period. While information on most debt...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Niger

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Niger. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget accessible to the public, including online. It did not publish an end-of-year report within a reasonable period. Information on some debt obligations was publicly...