News and reports from the State Department.

There was activity on five bills related to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 9.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...