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Targeting Russia’s Senior Officials, Defense Industrial Base, Financial Infrastructure Leaders, and Human Rights Abusers

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 The United States continues to hold the Russian government to account for its war against Ukraine. Today, we are taking actions against major Russian defense entities, key advanced-technology firms that support Russia’s defense industrial base, and financial infrastructure. We are also taking actions against …

By U.S. Mission Russia | 16 September, 2022 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Economic Affairs, Fact Sheets, Government Offices, Key Officials, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Remarks to the Traveling Press on Plane en route to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release May 8, 2018 SECRETARY POMPEO: So the first time it was truly an intel effort, in that the South Koreans had made representations about things that North Korea was preparing to do that Kim Jong-un had told them, and we largely went there to …

By U.S. Mission Russia | 8 May, 2018 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Michael R. Pompeo

Secretary Tillerson on Efforts to Address Burma’s Rakhine State Crisis

I reiterate the United States’ condemnation of August 25 attacks on security forces by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). Yet no provocation can justify the horrendous atrocities that have ensued. These abuses by some among the Burmese military, security forces, and local vigilantes have caused tremendous suffering and forced hundreds of thousands of men, …

By U.S. Mission Russia | 23 November, 2017 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Former U.S. Government Leaders, News | Tags: Rex Tillerson

Remarks by Ambassador Nikki Haley at an Emergency UN Security Council Briefing on North Korea

Thank you, Mr. President. And we want to thank you for allowing us to have this prompt meeting, as it’s very urgent. And we also want to thank the Ambassador of Egypt and his team for the steady hand and the calm way in which he lead in this past month. For more than 20 …

By U.S. Mission Russia | 4 September, 2017 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, News, Press Releases, Speeches

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