Press Releases: December 2010

12/31/10 Iraq: Violence Against Christians;  Acting Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/31/10 Yemen Parliamentary Procedure;  Acting Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/30/10 Burma's Independence Day; Acting Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/30/10 Republic of Haiti's Independence Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/29/10 Fifty Students From Pakistan Convene in Washington, DC for Global UGRAD-Pakistan Program Orientation; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/29/10 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Travel to Brazil for Presidential Inauguration;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/28/10 Special Advisor for Children's Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Egypt and Jordan; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/27/10 Security Measures at U.S. Embassies (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/27/10 Verdict in the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev Case;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/23/10 Joint US-EU Statement on Post-Presidential Elections' Situation in Belarus; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/22/10 Consular Report of Birth Abroad Certificate Improvements; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/22/10 Election of Noble Lord Tu'ivakano as Tonga's Prime Minister;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/22/10 Human Rights Watch Report on Israel and the Palestinians; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/22/10 Senate Approval of New START;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/22/10 The Emperor of Japan's Birthday;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/22/10 UN General Assembly Resolution on Iran's Human Rights Violations;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/22/10 Zimbabwe Dialogue - The Copenhagen Statement; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/21/10 Announcement of New Iraqi Government;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/21/10 Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Announces Dates for 2011 Industry Advisory Panel Meetings; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/21/10 Cote d'Ivoire: Travel Restrictions; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/21/10 The U.S. Contributes $12.1 Million to IDLO to Improve Legal Services in Afghanistan; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/21/10 U.S. Citizen Travel to North Korea (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/20/10 INL Police and Corrections Partnerships from 2010; Washington, DC
12/20/10 Security Council Renews Mandate of its Counterterrorism Executive Directorate;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/18/10 Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Intellectual Property Training Programs Funded; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Palestinian Information Communications Technology Capacity Building Initiative; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Qatar's National Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Remarks at Town Hall Meeting on the First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, "Leading Through Civilian Power";  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ronald Reagan Building; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Remarks at the 12th Annual Secretary's Awards for Corporate Excellence;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ben Franklin Room; Washington, DC
12/17/10 Secretary Clinton Presents Awards for Corporate Excellence; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/17/10 TAPI Gas Pipeline Project (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/16/10 American Embassy Vehicle Attacked Outside of Sana'a, Yemen; Washington, DC
12/16/10 Announcement of U.S. Support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/16/10 Launch of the Foreign Assistance Dashboard; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/16/10 Omnibus Bill;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/16/10 Remarks on the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/16/10 Transatlantic Economic Council Meeting Press Briefing December 17, 2010; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/15/10  U.S.-Japan Host Nation Agreement (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/15/10 Bombings at Mosque in Chabahar, Iran;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/15/10 Briefing on Release of the First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR);  Director Anne-Marie Slaughter; Washington, DC
12/15/10 Remarks at Town Hall Meeting on the Release of the First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, "Leading Through Civilian Power";  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Dean Acheson Auditorium; Washington, DC
12/15/10 U.S. Department of State Announces New Line Up of Cultural Diplomats to Kick-Off Season Two of DanceMotion USA; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/15/10 U.S.- South Africa Strategic Dialogue; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/15/10 Updated Time: Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton to Present 2010 Awards for Corporate Excellence ; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Briefing on the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun;  Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Kazakhstan's Independence Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Keystone XL Pipeline--Conflict of Interest; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Launch of Global Innovation through Science and Technology; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Remarks at U.S.-South African PEPFAR Partnership Framework Signing Ceremony;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Treaty Room; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Remarks at the Annual "Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays" Event with the Families and Loved Ones of Officers on Unaccompanied Tours;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ben Franklin Room; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Secretary Clinton to Host a Town Hall Meeting on the QDDR with State Department Employees on December 15; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Special Briefing on the Release of the First QDDR; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Travel of Assistant Secretary Philip H. Gordon to Geneva, Switzerland; Washington, DC
12/14/10 Under Secretary Maria Otero To Address OAS Roundtable in Celebration of Human Rights Day; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/14/10 United States and South Africa Sign Partnership Framework on HIV/AIDS; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/13/10  Secretary Clinton hosts "Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays"; Washington, DC
12/13/10 Briefing by Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd on the Cancun Agreements; Washington, DC
12/13/10 Passing of Richard Holbrooke;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/13/10 Remarks With Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon and Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa After their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Wakefield Mill Inn; Ottawa, Canada
12/13/10 Remarks at Holiday Reception for the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions to the United States;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ben Franklin Room; Washington, DC
12/13/10 Secretary Clinton to Present 2010 Awards for Corporate Excellence on December 17; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/13/10 Ten Vehicles Donated to the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organization; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/13/10 United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell's Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Washington, DC
12/13/10 United States and South Africa to Sign Partnership Framework on HIV/AIDS on December 14; Washington, DC
12/12/10 Special Conference Call Briefing; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/12/10 Update on Ambassador Richard Holbrooke;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/11/10 Secretary Clinton's Meeting with UN Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen ; Washington, DC
12/11/10 The Cancun Agreements;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/11/10 Update on Ambassador Richard Holbrooke;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/10/10 Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization's Travel to Sudan; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/10/10 Department of State Partners with the International Business Leaders Forum on Human Trafficking; Washington, DC
12/10/10 Joint Statement on Whaling and Safety at Sea Governments of Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States Call for Responsible Behavior in the Southern Ocean; Washington, DC
12/10/10 Remarks at Human Rights Day Town Hall;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Dean Acheson; Washington, DC
12/10/10 State Department 2010 Holiday Decorations: "A Season for Giving" ; Washington, DC
12/10/10 The Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/09/10 Election Observation in Ivory Coast (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/09/10 Human Rights Day 2010;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/09/10 Remarks To the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Dean Acheson Auditorium; Washington, DC
12/09/10 Secretary Clinton to Address the 2010 Saban Forum on December 10; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/09/10 Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton to Attend North American Foreign Ministers Meeting;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/08/10  Under Secretary of State Judith A. McHale To Lead U.S. Observer Delegation to Bali Democracy Forum Meeting; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/08/10 Burkina Faso's Independence Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/08/10 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants from 49 Countries Convene in Washington, D.C. ; Washington, DC
12/08/10 International Anti-Corruption Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/08/10 Secretary Clinton Presents Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards on December 10; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/08/10 Secretary Clinton to Address 2010 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants on Thursday, December 9; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/08/10 The Biological Weapons Convention Annual Meeting of States Parties; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/08/10 U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction Program in Iraq; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/08/10 Under Secretary William J. Burns Travels to South America; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/07/10 Assistant Secretary Jose W. Fernandez Holds Press Briefing on His Travel to North Africa; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/07/10 Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg Leads High-Level Delegation to Asia; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/07/10 From the Office of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/07/10 Secretary of State's Terrorist Designation of al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula Operative Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/07/10 The Passing of Elizabeth Edwards;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/07/10 U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Remarks With Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan Before Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ben Franklin Room; Washington, DC
12/06/10  United States and Brazil Agree on Open Skies; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Chief START Negotiator Rose Gottemoeller and Dr. James Miller to discuss the New START Treaty at the Brookings Institution; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Remarks With Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara Before Their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Treaty Room; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Remarks With South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan Before Their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Treaty Room; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Special Advisor for Children's Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Guatemala; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 Trilateral Statement Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 U.S. Special Envoy Gration Travels to Sudan and Qatar; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 U.S.-Canada Energy Consultative Mechanism Meets; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/06/10 UN Security Council Youth Event ; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/04/10 Kennedy Center Honors Dinner;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization's Travel to Brussels ; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer's Travel to Belgium, Ukraine and Egypt; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Assistant Secretary Valenzuela to Travel to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Fires in Israel;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/03/10 His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Birthday and Thailand's National Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Interview With Michel Ghandour of Al Hurra;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Manama, Bahrain
12/03/10 Interview With The Cable's Josh Rogin;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; National Museum; Manama, Bahrain
12/03/10 Manama Dialogue Opening Dinner;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ritz Carlton Hotel; Manama, Bahrain
12/03/10 One Year Continued Incarceration of Alan Gross;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Statement Congratulating Alpha Condé on his Presidential Victory in Guinea;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Taken Question: India and U.S. Commitment to the Nonproliferation Treaty; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/03/10 Townterview Hosted by Bahrain TV;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; National Museum; Manama, Bahrain
12/02/10 Finland's Independence Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/02/10 International Day of Persons With Disabilities;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/02/10 Meeting With Staff and Their Families of Embassy Tashkent;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; U.S. Embassy; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
12/02/10 Meeting With Troops at Manas Transit Center;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Manas Transit Center, Kyrgyzstan
12/02/10 Meets With Embassy Personnel and Their Families;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; U.S. Embassy; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
12/02/10 Townterview Hosted by KTR;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; KTR Studio; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
12/02/10 U.S. and Uzbekistan Sign Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 Department Hosts Conference Series to Address Key International Security Issues ; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Welcomes Four New Members; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 Remarks With Belarussian Foreign Minister Sergey Martynov Before Their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Palace of Independence; Astana, Kazakhstan
12/01/10 Remarks With Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Before Their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Palace of Independence; Astana, Kazakhstan
12/01/10 Remarks With Kazakh Foreign Minister Saudabayev After Their Meeting;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Palace of Independence; Astana, Kazakhstan
12/01/10 Remarks at OSCE Intervention;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Palace of Independence; Astana, Kazakhstan
12/01/10 Trilateral Ministerial; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 Troika Statement on the Southern Sudan Referendum; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 U.S. - Belarus Bilateral Meeting; Office of the Spokesman; Astana, Kazakhstan
12/01/10 U.S. Department of State Honors Hala Galal El Sayed Mohamed of Egypt as State Alumni Member of the Month; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
12/01/10 United Arab Emirates National Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/01/10 World AIDS Day 2010;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/01/10 World AIDS Day: U.S. Reports Encouraging Progress in Saving Lives through Smart Investments; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC