By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Today in Seoul, U.S. Special Representative for the DPRK Ambassador Sung Kim and Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Funakoshi Takehiro participated in a trilateral meeting hosted by Republic of Korea ...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
News Release: In the one hundred days since Russian President Putin ordered his forces to further invade Ukraine, the world has seen the courage and determination of the people of Ukraine as they fight for their country. Since Feb. 24, the United States has provided more than 6.3 billion dollars of security, humanitarian ...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
Release: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to the Republic of Korea (ROK), the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos from June 5 to 14. The Deputy Secretary’s travel to the region reflects the United States’ continued commitment to the Indo-Pacific and follows last month’s U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit, President Biden’s visit to the ROK and Japan, the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo, and the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the 33rd anniversary of the Chinese government’s violent crackdown against peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
Release: Tomorrow, we commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, where tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors peacefully joined together to call for democracy, accountability, freedom, and rule of law. The 50-day protest ended abruptly on June 4, 1989, with a brutal assault by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) military. Countless were imprisoned and the number of deaths is still unknown today.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s a special pleasure for me to welcome my friend Jeppe, the foreign minister of Denmark, and his entire team here to the State Department and to the United States. One of the very first trips that I took in this job was to Denmark, and it really in ...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
The US State Department published a one page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Armed Services Committee on June 3.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The unwritten constitution, comprised of several basic laws, provides the right to manifest religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, or teaching, either individually or in community with others, and either in public or in private. The law prohibits discrimination based on religious belief.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution states Buddhism is the state religion, which is promoted by the government through holiday observances, religious training, Buddhist instruction in public schools, and financial support to Buddhist institutions. The law provides for freedom of belief and religious worship, provided such...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. It’s a real pleasure to have Foreign Minister Osmani here. We are welcome – welcome to the State Department, welcome to Washington – our newest NATO Ally, but also I am very pleased that we’ve initiated the Strategic Dialogue, which I think will only serve to deepen cooperation, coordination, collaboration between North Macedonia and the United States. We’re very, very pleased to do that.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of religion and religious worship and prohibits the establishment of a state religion. The law treats intentional attacks directed against religiously affiliated buildings or facilities as war crimes or crimes against international humanitarian law. The...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief. The labor standards law does not cover domestic service workers and caretakers, who are therefore not legally guaranteed a weekly rest day. Due to this exclusion, many domestic workers continued to be unable to attend religious services. According...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion. Religious groups with memberships equal to or greater than 2 percent of the population are required to register with the government. The government allowed the Kiribati Protestant Church (KPC) to operate, but the Church was not able to register during...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution grants the freedom to profess and practice any religious belief but prohibits religious activities directed against the sovereignty of the state, its constitutional system, and “civic harmony." A concordat grants the Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC) rights and privileges not granted...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits discrimination based on religious belief. Relations between the government and religious organizations continued to improve, according to religious leaders and media reports, although some tensions emerged regarding the role of religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution specifies Islam is the state religion and defines the national identity as being based on a single religion - Sunni Islam - but proclaims equality of rights and obligations for all, regardless of religious belief. The constitution also specifies that the principles and rules that regulate...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution, laws, and policies provide for religious freedom, subject to restrictions relating to public order, public health, and morality. The government continued to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church). It restricted speech or...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the United States of America and the Republic of North Macedonia on the occasion of the U.S. – North Macedonia Strategic Dialogue.
