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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Yemen

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Yemen. During the review period, the government did not produce within a reasonable period any budget documents, including an executive budget proposal, end-of-year report, or enacted budget. The government published limited information on debt obligations. It did...


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Suriname

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Suriname. During the review period, the government made significant progress in four areas: (1) publishing a budget that included major sources of revenue and expenditure; (2) ensuring actual revenues and expenditures reasonably correspond to those in the enacted...


News Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-13 and Dakar, Senegal, September 14-15, where he will engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the ...


News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met virtually while in Brussels today with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. The Secretary again extended his deepest sympathies to the people of the Commonwealth on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Suriname

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Suriname. During the review period, the government made significant progress in four areas: (1) publishing a budget that included major sources of revenue and expenditure; (2) ensuring actual revenues and expenditures reasonably correspond to those in the enacted...


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Oman

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Oman. During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring its sovereign wealth fund had a sound legal framework and disclosed its sources of funding and general approach to withdrawals. The government made its enacted budget and end-of-year...


Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry’s Travel to Nigeria and Senegal

Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-13 and Dakar, Senegal, September 14-15, where he will engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the...


The UN-brokered Black Sea Deal and Impacts on Global Food Security

Release: THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.


News Release: MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody, and Happy Friday. Welcome to this press call to preview Secretary Blinken’s upcoming travel to Mexico on Monday, September 12th for the 2022 U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue. Joining us today is Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian ...


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: People's Republic of China

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: People's Republic of China.


Transmission of the President’s Report to Congress on Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2023

News Release: The United States is, and will continue to be, a global leader in international humanitarian response, including through refugee resettlement. We have prioritized rebuilding and strengthening the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) in a strategic, sustainable way that positions the program on a durable ...


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Belize

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Belize. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget, end-of-year report, and information on debt obligations widely accessible to the public, including online. However, it did not publish an executive budget proposal within a reasonable period.


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Laos

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Laos. During the review period, the government did not make its executive budget proposal or end-of-year report publicly available online. It did publish its enacted budget, though not within a reasonable period, and published a partial end-of-year report. Limited...


Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: People's Republic of China.


News Release: Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Tim Betts will travel to Israel September 9-13. During the trip, he will join Ambassador Nides at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), meet with Israeli counterparts to discuss regional security and counterterrorism cooperation, and deliver remarks at the ICT’s annual summit meeting in Herzliya September 13.


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Algeria

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Algeria. During the review period, the government made significant progress by disclosing debt of major state-owned enterprises. The government published its executive budget proposal and enacted its budget within a reasonable period but did not publish an end-of-year...


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


Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Betts’ Travel to Israel

Release: Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Tim Betts will travel to Israel September 9-13. During the trip, he will join Ambassador Nides at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), meet with Israeli counterparts to discuss regional security and counterterrorism cooperation, and deliver remarks at the ICT’s annual summit meeting in Herzliya September 13.


Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Papua New Guinea. During the review period, the government made significant progress in three areas, by (1) ensuring the budget provided a substantially full picture by including major sources of revenue and expenditure, (2) ensuring actual revenues and expenditures...


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Lebanon

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Lebanon. During the review period, the government did not enact a budget. Therefore, it did not publish online an executive budget proposal, an enacted budget, nor an end-of-year report. Information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt,...