By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Tajikistan. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing an audit report of the entire, annual executed budget that contained substantive findings, recommendations, and narratives. The government also made its executive budget...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Burma. On Feb. 1, 2021, the military staged a coup d’état that reversed fiscal transparency improvements made between 2012 and 2021. The return of military rule dramatically decreased overall fiscal transparency. While the previous government published its executive...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Palestinian Authority. During the review period, the Palestinian Authority made its enacted budget public, but not within a reasonable period, and the data was incomplete. The budget was not approved by the legislature. It published monthly budget execution reports...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress) and in many ways was meaningful because it took place coincident with the beginnings of this counteroffensive that Ukraine is engaged in to liberate the land that has been seized by Russian forces as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Maldives. During the review period, the government made budget documents widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s planned expenditures and revenue streams, and budget...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
“NOMINATIONS“ was published in the Senate section on pages S4447-S4449 on Sept. 6
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Today marks two years since U.S. citizen and Marine veteran Matthew Heath was wrongfully detained in Venezuela. Matthew was arrested in September 2020 on specious charges, and his trial remains ongoing. As Secretary Blinken has said, he is personally focused on bringing U.S. nationals held hostage or...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 9.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
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. However, the enacted budget was not published within a reasonable period. While information on most debt...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mozambique. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its enacted budget within a reasonable period. The government also made its executive budget proposal and end-of-year report publicly available online. Publicly available...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: The Bahamas. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Information on debt obligations was publicly available. Budget documents...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Rwanda. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making information on debt obligations, including state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available. The executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Ecuador. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making information on debt obligations, including state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available within a reasonable period. Budget documents were publicly available online, although...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: South Sudan. There was no budget enacted for the fiscal year beginning July 2021. During the review period, the government did not publish an executive budget proposal, enacted budget, or end-of-year report within a reasonable period. Allocations to and earnings...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: On September 9, 2022, the United States Department of State released the 2022 Fiscal Transparency Report, which found that, of the 141 countries (and the Palestinian Authority) evaluated by the Department, the governments of 72 met minimum requirements of fiscal transparency. Sixty-nine did not meet the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency. Of these 69, however, 27 made significant progress toward meeting the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Zambia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making its debt obligations, including overall state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available and updated within a reasonable period. The government also made significant progress by including...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Today marks two years since U.S. citizen and Marine veteran Matthew Heath was wrongfully detained in Venezuela. Matthew was arrested in September 2020 on specious charges, and his trial remains ongoing. As Secretary Blinken has said, he is personally focused on bringing U.S. nationals held hostage or ...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Liberia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing the enacted budget within a reasonable period and by ensuring actual revenues and expenditures reasonably corresponded to those in the enacted budget. However, it did not make...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Saudi Arabia. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report publicly available online within a reasonable period, but it did not publish its executive budget proposal at least one month before the start of the fiscal year.
