News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel virtually to New York City on March 29 to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, meet with UN officials, and meet with the staff of the United States Mission to the United Nations. Secretary Blinken’s UN engagements will reaffirm the United States’ ...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will join Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès in co-hosting a virtual meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group on March 30 to review continuing efforts in the campaign to achieve the enduring defeat of ISIS.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: I am disturbed that human rights defense lawyer Shahla Humbatova of Azerbaijan was disbarred from the Azerbaijani bar on the eve of International Women’s Day, a year after receiving the Secretary of State’s International Woman of Courage (IWOC) award. Her work, and the work of other human rights defenders in Azerbaijan, should be celebrated, not punished, and we call on those responsible to expedite her reinstatement to the Azerbaijani bar.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: The Department of State has renewed the Charter of the Shipping Advisory Committee. The Committee was established to provide a forum for interested members of government and the public—including private citizens, members of the maritime shipping industry, non-governmental organizations, small businesses, ...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks and violence against civilians in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique. The attacks show a complete disregard for the local population, which has suffered tremendously because of the terrorists’ brutal and indiscriminate tactics. We call for an immediate end to the violence and for those responsible to be held accountable to the full extent of the law.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: The Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance Program (ATA) plans to facilitate the first-ever West Africa Joint Operations (WAJO) regional exercise in late March 2021, designed to connect counterterrorism investigators with their judicial counterparts in three nations.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: The United States again joins the international community in strongly condemning the attacks against Saudi Arabia that struck an oil facility in Jizan. The attack comes days after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Yemen announced a commitment to reach a ceasefire and engage in UN-led peace talks.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: On Mar. 25, the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland completed an exchange of diplomatic notes to bring the U.S.-UK Air Transport Agreement (“the Agreement”) into force. Both governments had been applying the Agreement, signed in November 2020, on the basis of comity and reciprocity since Jan. 1, 2021. This Agreement also emphasizes the close ties between our two nations.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: MS PORTER: Thank you for joining us this afternoon for a quick call to outline the Secretary’s upcoming virtual visit to the United Nations and our mission in New York. This is an on-the-record press preview, but the contents of this call are embargoed until the end of the call.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON – In January 2019, a worker at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in Waller alerted their employer that exposure to carbon monoxide made them ill and asked the employer to call an ambulance. In addition to refusing the worker’s request, the employer allegedly threatened to terminate the employee. After going to the hospital, the worker was terminated.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: RIPON, WI – A forklift struck and seriously injured a 60-year-old seasonal employee as she walked toward a pallet to label products for shipping at a Ripon facility where vegetables are canned for Libby’s and several other brands.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: RIPON, WI – A forklift struck and seriously injured a 60-year-old seasonal employee as she walked toward a pallet to label products for shipping at a Ripon facility where vegetables are canned for Libby’s and several other brands.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON – In January 2019, a worker at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in Waller alerted their employer that exposure to carbon monoxide made them ill and asked the employer to call an ambulance. In addition to refusing the worker’s request, the employer allegedly threatened to terminate the employee. After going to the hospital, the worker was terminated.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its March 2021 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on airline operational data compiled for the month of January 2021. The ATCR and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States and the United Kingdom yesterday completed an exchange of diplomatic notes that brings into force the Air Transport Agreement (the Agreement) between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...
By State News Post | Mar 26, 2021
The US State Department published a one page notice on March 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Mar 26, 2021
The US State Department published a five page proposed rule on March 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 26, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
