Government Press Events

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 2022.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 2022.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual roundtable with emerging journalists, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on March 18, 2021.
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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz signs Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken's guestbook before their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 2021.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Janet Sanderson leads the Special Press Briefing on Libya at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2011.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Mission India, in New Delhi, India on July 28, 2021.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signs the guest book during his visit to the the Malaca�ang Palace to meet with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on August 7, 2017.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual on-the-record roundtable discussion with Kenyan and Nigerian journalists from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2021.
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Office of the Secretary - AGOA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
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Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin �Benny� Gantz signs Secretary Blinken's Guest Book at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 2021.
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Press briefing, concerning the President's International Initiative to Combat Kleptocracy, featuring remarks by Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich, and Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Pat O'Brien, among other officials.
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Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a 5G signing ceremony with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Brussels, Belgium, on June 13, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks on Modernizing American Diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, on October 27, 2021.
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Secretary Pompeo officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for Ambassador James F. Jeffrey as Special Representative for Syria Engagement, at the Department of State on August 17, 2018.
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Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Catherine Novelli presents the Secretary of State's 2014 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) to Executive Vice President and President of Coca-Cola International Ahmet C. Bozer, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2014. The Coca-Cola Company in the Philippines, a bottling and distribution company, received its award for providing disaster relief services to areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.
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Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) ceremony and reception, Benjamin Franklin Room, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice hosting and Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan, and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr. among the other Department speakers. Corporations honored included Sambazon for its operations in Brazil, General Motors for its operations in Colombia, and Goldman Sachs for its operations in Chile.
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Acting Assistant Secretary Dean Pittman responds to your questions on U.S. priorities at the 69th United Nations General Assembly during a Facebook Q&A at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2014.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a signing ceremony with Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Kor_ok and Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad� at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2022.
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Madrid, 04/15/2016. Press conference after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, with Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Fátima Bañez and Cristóbal Montoro. Photo: Jaime García ARCHDC.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with newly installed Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at the outset of a bilateral meeting on the margins of a series of ministerial discussions focused on Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other NATO issues at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on June 25, 2014.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 18 2022.
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Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) ceremony and reception, Benjamin Franklin Room, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice hosting and Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan, and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr. among the other Department speakers. Corporations honored included Sambazon for its operations in Brazil, General Motors for its operations in Colombia, and Goldman Sachs for its operations in Chile.
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Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken addresses reporters after delivering remarks at the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 2, 2016.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann, in Paris, France on June 25, 2021.
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Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) ceremony and reception, Benjamin Franklin Room, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice hosting and Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan, and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr. among the other Department speakers. Corporations honored included Sambazon for its operations in Brazil, General Motors for its operations in Colombia, and Goldman Sachs for its operations in Chile.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hands with Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski before a bilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace in Lima, Peru on February 6, 2018.
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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the Three Seas Virtual Summit and Web Forum, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2020.
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Dana J. Hyde, bottom left, CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Amara M. Konneh, bottom right, the Liberian Minister of Finance and Development, sign a compact development agreement as Jeremiah C. Sulunteh, left, the Liberian ambassador to the U.S., and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, center, Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to Liberia, and Heather Higginbottom, right, Deputy Secretary of Management and Resources at the State Department, look on during a compact development signing Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 in Washington.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a G7+Guests Session on Climate/Girl�s Education with USAID Administrator Samantha Power in London, United Kingdom, on May 5, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado, in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 1, 2021.
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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman virtually thanks colleagues from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs for their support of her travel to Geneva for the extraordinary session of the U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2022.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq Michael Corbin speaks to Al-Jazeera about the Iraq transition and U.S. combat troop withdrawal, Washington, DC, August 25, 2010.
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With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his family looking on, Ambassador Arnold Chacon signs his appointment papers to become the new Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources (DGHR), at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 2015.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 3, 2021.
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U.S.-Mexico Memorandum of Understanding signing event at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, leading the proceedings
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 26, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with the Foreign Ministers of the G20 Nations, at the Palace Hotel, in New York City, New York, on September 22, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press on our efforts to bring Americans home and our support for the broader evacuation from Afghanistan, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 25, 2021.
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U.S.-Mexico Memorandum of Understanding signing event at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, leading the proceedings
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signs his papers to become a member of the Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2014.
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International Trade Administration - Swearing-In Laura Jimenex, Hanna Kamenetzky and Jane Kitson
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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, joined by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, holds a virtual multilateral meeting with CARICOM officials during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 21, 2021.
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Secretary Kerry provides closing remarks while Ocean Champions Senegalese Foreign Minister Mankeur Ndiaye, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop,Norwegian Foreign Minister B�rge Brende, Karmenu Vella of the European Commission, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse look on during closing of 2016 Our Ocean Conference.
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Activities at the National Governors Association Centennial Meeting iin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Interior Secretary--and former Idaho Governor--Dirk Kempthorne joined a host of current and former Governors and guests, among them former President Bill Clinton (Centennial Session Keynote Speaker), Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, and ABC News political commentator and author (Centennial Session Moderator) Cokie Roberts.
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Activities at the National Governors Association Centennial Meeting iin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Interior Secretary--and former Idaho Governor--Dirk Kempthorne joined a host of current and former Governors and guests, among them former President Bill Clinton (Centennial Session Keynote Speaker), Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, and ABC News political commentator and author (Centennial Session Moderator) Cokie Roberts.
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Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to El Salvador (USTDA Ceremony, Reception, FCS Photos, Delegation Debrief, Young Enterp.)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Mission India, in New Delhi, India on July 28, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with IDN TV in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 14, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Health Incident Response Task Force Ambassador Jonathan Moore and Senior Care Coordinator Ambassador Margaret Uyehara, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2021.
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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman virtually thanks colleagues from the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs for their hard work managing the complex relationship between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 28 2022.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an MOU Signing Ceremony with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 14, 2021.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a Meet and Greet with U.S. Embassy Cairo, in Cairo, Egypt, on May 26, 2021.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a donation to the USDA Feds Feed Families food bank drive at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on August 29, 2013.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a roundtable discussion with Executive Women@State via video teleconference from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 2021.
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Inter-American Defense Board Leadership and guest celebrate the boards 80th anniversary at the Organization of American States building, Washington, D.C., March 30, 2022. During the celebration An Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Delegates was held in the Hall of the Americas of the Organization of American States. The meeting was attended by OAS authorities, Ambassadors of the Member States, Permanent Representatives, Secretaries of Defense and Commanders of the armed forces of the hemisphere, Delegates to the IADB and of the Observer Countries and the Inter-American Defense College, both in person and remotely.
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Office of the Secretary - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Press Conference Unions Training Grant
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Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Libby Press Conference , Environmental Protection Agency
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Hawaii-based Department of State employees in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 12, 2022.
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Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, und Ayman Safadi, Aussenminister des Haschemitischen Koenigreichs Jordanien, aufgenommen im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz in Amman, 19.10.2023
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With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looking on, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz delivers remarks at the opening plenary of the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 31, 2015.
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Dragons Lair 7 finalists and panelists celebrate the end of Dragons Lair and the Corps culture of innovation at the Capital Factory in Austin, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022. This is the 7th iteration of Dragons Lair, the DoDs premiere innovation series, where the finalists presented their innovations to a panel of civilian tech leaders and senior military officials.