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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "Earlier today, I learned that two locally employed staff with the U.S. Mission in Pakistan were brutally murdered in an attack against a Government of Pakistan Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) convoy in Ambar tehsil, Mohmand Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.
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Stanford, California - One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is the lack of reliable information. In order to aid the poor, agencies need to map the dimensions of distressed areas and identify the absence or presence of infrastructure and services. But in many of the poorest areas of the world such information is rare.
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Washington, DC - In Baku, Special Envoy Hochstein will represent the United States at a February 29 meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council – the second meeting of this Council. He will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, EU Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic, Bulgarian Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova, Turkish Minister of Energy Berat Albayrak, Greek Minister of Energy Panos Skourletis, and other ministers of energy and officials from Southern Gas Corridor member countries, as well as representatives of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and private sector companies.
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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the people of the Dominican Republic on your 172 years of independence. Dominican-Americans are the fifth-largest Hispanic group in the United States, and our people-to-people ties grow stronger every year.
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Brussels, Belgium - Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has issued the following statement regarding today’s release of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework in Brussels.
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Washington, DC - Secretary Kerry welcomed Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera to the State Department in Washington, D.C., on February 25 for the inaugural U.S.-Sri Lanka Annual Partnership Dialogue, which the two had announced during Secretary Kerry’s visit to the country in May 2015.
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