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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the G5 Sahel

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Assistant Secretary-General Pobee and Executive Secretary Tiaré for your briefings.


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Media Note: Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Announces United States to Join Council of Europe’s Register of Damage for Ukraine

The United States has expressed its intent to join the Council of Europe’s “Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine on or after February 24, 2022,” as a founding Associate Member.



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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Under-Secretary-General Griffiths, for your sobering remarks.



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Remarks at Russia’s Arria-formula Meeting on the Situation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

The United States takes seriously allegations of violations of human rights, including the freedom of religion or belief.


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Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Ambassador Jim O’Brien at a Foreign Press Center Briefing on the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Welcome to the New York Foreign Press Center. We’re honored to have two distinguished briefers with us today who will speak on the Black Sea Grain Initiative:



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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Libya 

Thank you, Madam President. And thank you, Prosecutor Khan, for your briefing to the Security Council on the International Criminal Court’s work on the situation in Libya.


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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Bosnia and Herzegovina

Thank you, Madam President. High Representative Schmidt, we greatly appreciate your participation and briefing today.


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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East

Thank you, Madam President. And I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing this morning, and for the steadfast work of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on this important issue.



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Statement at the 45th Annual Session of the Committee on Information

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you as well to the Department of Global Communications and the Committee on Information Secretariat for its support, and my colleagues from the Permanent Missions who have worked so diligently on this Resolution.



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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Thank you, Mr. President. I’d also like to thank Foreign Minister Osmani for your participation today and North Macedonia’s principled leadership at the OSCE.


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Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Interview with TV Bahia, Brazil

(Via translation) Ambassador, why did you choose Salvador to celebrate the return of JAPER?



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Statement by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on World Press Freedom Day

This year marks the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day and a lot has changed in three decades.


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Remarks at the 8th Multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals

Now, more than ever in the history of science researchers have at their fingertips an unprecedented wealth of information, knowledge, data, and technology — from continuously orbiting satellites to environmental observatories and even monitoring instruments.


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Joint Statement on the Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality 

Today, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield joined Brazil’s Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco to reaffirm President Biden and President Lula’s commitment to reinvigorate the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality (JAPER)