News and reports from the State Department.

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Angola. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing and updating information on debt obligations, including state-owned enterprise debt. The executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and easily...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Haiti. During the review period, the government published its budget online within a reasonable period. However, the executive budget proposal and end-of-year report were not published online within a reasonable period. The government produced a summary of public...

There was activity on two bills related to the Armed Services Committee on Sept. 9.

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Bahrain. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and mid-year budget execution report within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations was publicly available. Publicly available budget documents...

News Release: MODERATOR: Good afternoon. The Secretary General and the Secretary of State will make introductory remarks, and then they’ll be happy to take a few questions. Secretary General.

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Angola. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing and updating information on debt obligations, including state-owned enterprise debt. The executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and easily...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Senegal. During the review period, the government’s budget was widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. The budget was substantially complete and generally reliable, except it did not include allocations to and earnings from major state-owned...

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...

News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the introduction of his Department of State Authorization Act of 2022...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Libya. Internal political divisions continue to prevent the government from implementing regular budget processes, which adversely affected fiscal transparency and the country’s operations. During the reporting period, the government did not publish an executive...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Papua New Guinea. During the review period, the government made significant progress in three areas, by (1) ensuring the budget provided a substantially full picture by including major sources of revenue and expenditure, (2) ensuring actual revenues and expenditures...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Vietnam. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget accessible to the public, including online, but the government did not publish its end-of-year report within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations...

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Somalia. The government made significant progress by publishing its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period. During the review period, the government published its enacted budget and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. The government...

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: Lesotho. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making its budget proposal and enacted budget publicly available in a reasonable period. The government did not, however, publish an end-of-year report in a reasonable period. The government...