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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...
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Matthew Heath’s Two Years of Captivity in Venezuela

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 ...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Liberia

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...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Saudi Arabia

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.
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Cambodia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Cambodia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by auditing the government’s executed budget and making the report publicly available within a reasonable period. The government made its enacted budget available online but did not publish...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Nicaragua

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Nicaragua. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report accessible to the public, including online. It presented its executive budget proposal to the national assembly but did not publish it online. Publicly available budget...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Iraq

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Iraq. During the review period, the government published a budget for the first time since 2019. It made significant progress in eight areas, by (1) publishing information on debt obligations within a reasonable period; (2) publishing state-owned enterprise debt...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Ecuador

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...
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Assistant Secretary of State Satterfield Travels to Indonesia and Qatar

News Release: From September 9-16, 2022, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Lee Satterfield will travel to Indonesia and Qatar, where she will lead the United States’ delegation to the G20 Culture Ministerial in Magelong, Indonesia and meet with U.S. exchange participants, government ...
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2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sudan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sudan. This assessment covers activities carried out during the review period by the previous, civilian-led transitional government prior to the Oct. 25, 2021 military takeover. The previous, civilian-led government published its executive budget proposal and...
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Remarks on Oversight to the UNICEF Executive Board

Remarks on Oversight to the UNICEF Executive Board
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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant

Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant
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UN ambassador: U.S. condemns 'heinous attack on the Russian embassy in Kabul'

Six people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Russian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 5, including two Russian embassy employees and four Afghan citizens.
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Statement at the Adoption of the First-Ever UN General Assembly Resolution on Survivors of Sexual Violence

Statement at the Adoption of the First-Ever UN General Assembly Resolution on Survivors of Sexual Violence
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USTR Receives Requests for Continuation of China 301 Tariffs

USTR Receives Requests for Continuation of China 301 Tariffs
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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Peacekeeping Operations

Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Peacekeeping Operations
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State Department discusses Notice of Determinations; Culturally Significant Objects Being Imported for Exhibition-Determinations: “Alex Katz: Gathering” Exhibition on Sept. 8

The US State Department published a two page notice on Sept. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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How politicians on Armed Services Committee dealt with bills on Sept. 8

There was activity on three bills related to the Armed Services Committee on Sept. 8.
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United States of America-Republic of Korea Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group (EDSCG)

News Release: The United States and the Republic of Korea will hold a bilateral Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group (EDSCG) meeting on Sept. 16, 2022. The United States delegation will be led by Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, ...
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Designating Iranian Proliferators of Shipping Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology to Russia for Use in Ukraine

News Release: The United States is designating a person involved in the shipment of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia for its war against Ukraine, as well as four other persons involved in Iranian UAV activities, including the production of Shahed-series UAVs and related components for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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