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The U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability 10-Year Strategic Plan for Mozambique
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Summary. The U.S. government (USG) is committed to partnering with Mozambique to stabilize conflict-affected areas and build longer-term resilience and peace. The ISIS-Mozambique (ISIS-M) insurgency has committed heinous acts of violence in Mozambique’s northern provinces, to include killings, beheadings...
Secretary Blinken’s Participation in the Second Summit for Democracy
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will participate in the second Summit for Democracy on March 28-30, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The Summit will be co-hosted by the United States, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Republic of Zambia. Below is a list of events Secretary Blinken will...
The U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability 10-Year Strategic Plan for Haiti
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Summary. The United States is committed to helping Haiti become a safer, more stable, and democratic country, reflecting the deep people-to-people ties between our countries. Haiti faces a uniquely challenging moment in its history - in July 2021, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. Since early...
Secretary Blinken’s Participation in the Tenth U.S.-Colombia High-Level Dialogue
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva for the tenth U.S.-Colombia High Level Dialogue (HLD) in Washington, D.C. March 27-28. At the HLD, the two countries will discuss issues of shared interest including migration, counternarcotics, security, human rights and equity, education, economic opportunities, energy transition, and climate action.
Taking Additional Actions to Hold the Lukashenka Regime to Account
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: The United States continues to promote accountability for the Lukashenka regime’s violence surrounding the fraudulent August 2020 presidential election in Belarus, its ongoing brutal crackdown against the pro-democracy movement and other elements of Belarusian society, its flagrant human rights abuses, and its facilitation of the Russian Federation’s illegal war against Ukraine.
U.S. Objectives at the United Nations Water Conference
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: The United Nations General Assembly will convene the UN Water Conference March 22-24 in New York City. The conference will be cohosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Tajikistan and seeks to “bring stakeholders from all sectors together and create a global momentum for accelerated...
Senior Presidential Advisor for the Americas Dodd’s Travel to the Dominican Republic
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: Special Presidential Advisor (SPA) for the Americas Christopher J. Dodd will travel to Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, on March 24-25 to attend the 28th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government. SPA Dodd is attending the summit at the invitation of Dominican President Luis Abinader...
The Future of Security Sector Assistance in a Changing World
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Secretary Blinken’s Participation in the Second Summit for Democracy
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will participate in the second Summit for Democracy on March 28-30, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The Summit will be co-hosted by the United States, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Republic of Zambia. Below is a list of events Secretary Blinken will ...
United States Imposes Additional Sanctions on Jet Fuel Suppliers and Military Cronies to Address Burma Military Regime’s Atrocities
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: The United States continues to promote accountability for the Burmese military regime’s assault on the democratic aspirations of the people of Burma. Today we are designating two individuals and six entities. The regime continues to inflict pain and suffering on the people of Burma.
TUNE IN: Chairman McCaul to Join Fox News Sunday at 9amET/8amCT
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul will join “Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream this Sunday, March 26th.
Assistant Secretary Witkowsky’s Travel to Australia and Papua New Guinea
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations Anne A. Witkowsky will travel to Australia and Papua New Guinea March 27-31. While there, she will hold talks with government counterparts, community groups, human rights leaders, academia, donor partners, multilateral organizations, and civil society representatives on opportunities to expand our collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region.
The U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability 10-Year Strategic Plan for Papua New Guinea
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: Summary. The United States and Pacific Island countries share long-standing diplomatic, commercial, and security relationships. As President Biden highlighted at the 2022 U.S.-Pacific Islands Country Summit, the security of the Pacific Islands is key to the security of the United States. At that event,...
DRL Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Sri Lanka Transitional Justice
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
Release: This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009569.
United States Imposes Additional Sanctions on Jet Fuel Suppliers and Military Cronies to Address Burma Military Regime’s Atrocities
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2023
News Release: The United States continues to promote accountability for the Burmese military regime’s assault on the democratic aspirations of the people of Burma. Today we are designating two individuals and six entities. The regime continues to inflict pain and suffering on the people of Burma.
Designation of Paraguayan Officials Edgar Melgarejo, Jorge Bogarin, and Vicente Ferreira for Involvement in Significant Corruption
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: Today the United States is announcing the designations of the former Director of the Paraguayan Civil Aviation Authority Edgar Melgarejo, current member of the Paraguayan Panel for the Discipline of Judges and Prosecutors Jorge Bogarin, and current Court Clerk Vicente Ferreira for their involvement in significant corruption under Section 7031(c) of the annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.
SFRC, HFAC Leadership Call for Caesar Sanctions Against Assad Regime Intelligence Officer
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representatives Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are urging ...
U.S. Humanitarian and Development Assistance for Venezuela Regional Crisis
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: The United States is the largest single donor for the humanitarian response to the Venezuela regional crisis, providing assistance that supports refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable populations of concern. More than 7.7 million people inside Venezuela need immediate humanitarian assistance and more than 6 million Venezuelans have been displaced in 17 countries across the region since 2015.
DOS-ECA grant application closes on May 24
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
FY 2023 Community Engagement Exchange Program grant opened on March 24.
Invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to Examine Reports of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Lukashenka Regime
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: The United States and 37 other countries have invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism requesting that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) establish an expert mission to examine the dire and continuous deterioration of the human rights situation in Belarus.