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Risks and Considerations for U.S. Businesses Operating in Sudan

Release: Introduction[1]. The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Labor are issuing this advisory to highlight growing risks to American businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned...


News Release: On behalf of the United States, I congratulate Prime Minister-Elect Anthony Albanese on his victory in the May 21 Australian federal election.


Chairs Meeks and Sires Condemn Reappointment of Guatemalan Attorney General

News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Albio Sires, Chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy, issued the following statement in response to Guatemalan President Giammattei’s selection of Consuelo Porras for a second term as the country’s attorney general...


Release: The Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor today issued a business advisory on Sudan, highlighting the growing reputational risks to U.S. businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and military-controlled companies.


Release: The Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor today issued a business advisory on Sudan, highlighting the growing reputational risks to U.S. businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and military-controlled companies.


News Release: Washington, D.C.- Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on USAID’s Foreign Policy and International Development Priorities with Administrator Samantha Power.


What releases are upcoming from the State Department on May 24

There are two releases scheduled to be published on May 24.


Secretary Blinken’s Call with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Colonna

News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna to congratulate her on her appointment and discuss some of the pressing global issues the United States and France are confronting ...


Risks and Considerations for U.S. Businesses Operating in Sudan

Release: Introduction[1]. The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Labor are issuing this advisory to highlight growing risks to American businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned...


McCaul on the Venezuela Actions Announced by the Biden Administration

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s changes to the U.S.’s Venezuela policy.


Chair Meeks Leads Bipartisan CODEL to Europe

News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, departed on a congressional delegation to Austria, Switzerland, Moldova, and the Czech Republic to address current strategic transatlantic security issues and threats to democracies.


DOS-MAR offers new grant application process starting May 23

U.S. Alumni Capacity Building grant opened on May 23.


DOS-SCT grant application closes on July 22

AML/CFT Capacity Building in the Federal Republic of Nigeria grant opened on May 23.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s intended plans to redeploy troops to Somalia.


Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa Before Their Meeting

Release: FOREIGN MINISTER HAYASHI: Tony, I am delighted to welcome you in Tokyo. And amid the lovely evolving strategic environment surrounding us, it is significant that we are able to hold a Quad leaders’ meeting tomorrow here in Tokyo supporting our ministerial meeting in February. And notwithstanding ongoing...


McCaul, Meeks, Risch, Menendez Introduce Bicameral Resolution Celebrating Enduring U.S.-Greece Partnership, Welcoming Prime Minister Mitsotakis to the U.S.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) were joined by U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in introducing a concurrent resolution welcoming His Excellency Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece, to the United States for an address to a joint meeting of Congress.


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul will participate in a panel at the World Economic Forum entitled “Cold War 2.0." This panel will examine the direction of recent geopolitical shifts from a Ukrainian, Russian, North American, and Asian perspective.


Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu’s Travel to the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan

News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will lead a U.S. delegation to Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan May 23-27 to strengthen U.S. relations with the region and advance collaborative efforts to create a more connected, prosperous, and secure ...


U.S. Government Issues a Business Advisory for Sudan

Release: The Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor today issued a business advisory on Sudan, highlighting the growing reputational risks to U.S. businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and military-controlled companies.