Washington, DC - Yesterday, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal welcomed an Uzbek Government delegation led by Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov to Washington for the sixth U.S.-Uzbekistan Annual Bilateral Consultations. 

Washington, DC - The United States strongly condemns today’s attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.

Washington, DC - The United States is deeply alarmed by reports, including those from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, of serious human rights violations and abuses in Burundi, including eyewitness reports of mass graves, a sharp increase in alleged enforced disappearances and torture, and reports of sexual violence by security forces.

Notre Dame, Indiana - It is more than 80 degrees and raining hard on the gravel road outside Pokhara, Nepal. When the truck driver says it isn’t safe to cross the raging river ahead, his passengers—including Notre Dame graduate student Kevin Phaup find themselves contemplating a narrow footbridge with no railings, followed by a winding journey up the side of a mountain.

Washington, DC - Deputy Secretary Blinken traveled to Naypyitaw on January 18 to meet with leaders of the current and incoming governments in the wake of the country’s historic national elections at the end of last year. The Deputy Secretary was joined by Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski.

Washington, DC - We condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attacks over the past two days against Israeli civilians.