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Under Secretary Fernandez’s Remarks at the U.S.-Oman Strategic Dialogue

Release: (As prepared). Thank you, your excellency Sheikh Khalifa, for hosting us for the inaugural U.S.-Oman Strategic Dialogue. We are delighted to be here in beautiful Muscat to celebrate and deepen our long-standing bilateral relationship. I’m grateful to be joined by my colleague and friend, EXIM Chair...


Secretary Antony J. Blinken Virtual Conversation on “Russia’s War on Ukraine: One Year Later” With Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic

Release: MR GOLDBERG: Good morning to all of you in the United States. Good afternoon or good evening to those of you who are joining us from Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe and other places. Very, very happy to have all of you here.


Release: Over the year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin deployed a disinformation roulette of false narratives to deceive the world about the Kremlin’s neo-imperial intentions and attempt to justify an unjustifiable war. The Kremlin routinely changed its false claims to distract from its battlefield ...


Recognizing Global Human Rights Defender Awardees

Release: The U.S. Department of State remains resolute in its commitment to putting human rights and democratic principles at the center of our foreign policy. A critical component to this commitment is placing frontline defenders of human rights and advocates for fundamental freedoms at the center of our efforts.


Chairmen McCaul, Rogers, Turner Statement Ahead of Anniversary of Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) released the following statement ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine.


The U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy

Release: The U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy provides a framework under which U.S. Government agencies review and evaluate proposed arms transfers. Administrations have long issued such guidance to the Executive Branch agencies, dating back to the first CAT Policy established by the Carter Administration in 1977, and through several subsequent iterations previously promulgated by the Reagan, Clinton, Obama, and Trump Administrations.


Support for Libyan Elections

Release: Today, the United States hosted the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, and senior officials from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Türkiye, the UAE, and the UK, to discuss the Libyan people’s demand for presidential and parliamentary elections. Ahead...


United States Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Cormier Smith’s Travel to Jordan

Release: U.S. Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desirée Cormier Smith will travel to Amman, Jordan February 23-28 to deliver keynote remarks at U.S. Embassy Amman’s Black and White Gala for Black History Month. The annual gala brings together members of the diplomatic community, local partners,...


White House Releases Updated U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy

Release: Revitalizing America’s alliances is a key element of the Biden-Harris Administration’s approach to foreign policy. Today’s release of a newly revised U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy articulates the Administration’s priorities in evaluating proposed defense transfers in a manner that promotes the...


DOS-ECA offers new grant application process starting Feb. 24

Official U.S. Presentation at the 60th International Art Biennale grant opened on Feb. 24.


DOS-INL offers new grant application process starting Feb. 24

Certification and Professionalization of Mexican Criminal Justice Operators grant opened on Feb. 24.


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


Release: Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Geneva, Switzerland February 24 to March 1 for meetings around the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) released the following statement ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine.


Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Youth Empowerment in Serbia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009443. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...


Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of Slovenia and the United States of America after the third U.S.-Slovenia Strategic Dialogue held in Washington D.C.


India Joins the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate

Release: On the margins of the I2U2 Business Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez welcomed the Joint Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dammu Ravi signing a letter expressing the Indian Government’s intention to join the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...


DRL Improving Workers Rights, Strengthening Independent Media, and Expanding Civic Participation in Pakistan

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Improving Workers Rights, Strengthening Independent Media, and Expanding Civic Participation in Pakistan. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009448.


Release: Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Geneva, Switzerland February 24 to March 1 for meetings around the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).


DOS-INL grant application closes on April 24

Improving State Procedures to Counter GBV grant opened on Feb. 24.