Given that managing affairs in the Middle East has never been one of our strong suits, the question at this point should be how can the United States, particularly the Department of State, best engage groups that might be inimical to U.S. values but necessary to our interests in the Middle East?
Since NATO, the European Union, and individual European nations provide significant amounts of foreign assistance in countries where the United States also has aid programs, the Department of State, USAID, and other agencies shall seek to intensify cooperation with international partners to optimize program impact and to avoid duplication.
And at the outset of our meeting, I talked about my experience from 30 years ago when I visited the United States on the invitation of the Department of State, and about the experience of seeing the various NGOs are making activities depend solely on nations, and I saw the grassroots democracy there.
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In a report titled "2000 Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism, " the State Department said the United States has been increasingly concerned about reports of Pakistani support to terrorist groups and support for the Taliban, the fundamental Islamic regime controlling most of Afghanistan.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was first embraced in the United States by the State Department as a potential tool of foreign policy, and not by the U.S. Trade Representative as a possible trade initiative.
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In May of this year, the Iraqi ball club paid a 10-day visit to the United States courtesy of the U.S. State Department.
It found that only about 2.9% of state households faced hunger in any year, half the figure culled from United States Department of Agriculture surveys.
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And we owe it to the United States of America, the US Department--the State Department, our soldiers overseas, our children and our grandchildren to do better than Mr. Bolton.
Finally, the affidavit alleges that Kendall Myers engaged in a scheme to defraud the State Department and the United States by means of false pretenses and caused the U.S. government to lose property, specifically money in the form of salary payments.
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The failure to add to the watch list two al Qaeda suspects with the Department of State meant that they entered the United States under their true names with ease.
Washington (CNN) -- Diplomatic tensions between the United States and Venezuela showed no signs of slowing Monday as the State Department announced that two Venezuelan diplomats had been expelled.
Now, using one of the fastest DNA sequencers on the market, researchers at Penn State, Columbia University, and the United States Department of Agriculture have found that collapsing hives are much more likely to be infected by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), using a new approach that aims to sequence all the genes in an environment almost as if they were single organisms.
But as Secretary Clinton has made clear, for the United States even one prisoner of conscience is too many, and the State Department has passed along a list of those we are concerned remain imprisoned.
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Negroponte is expected to meet Musharraf and other Pakistani officials over the weekend to convey how seriously the United States views his imposition of emergency rule and will suggest he rescind it, Senior State Department officials told CNN.
Hours after ECOWAS' announcement, the U.S. Department of State announced that it was imposing sanctions on travel to the United States on those people "who block Mali's return to civilian rule and a democratically elected government" and on their immediate relatives.
In both the Bush and the Obama Administrations, the leading agency in charge of this policy seems to be the State Department whose philosophy is to try to improve the image of the United States in Latin America in order to mitigate the effect of anti-Americanism in the area.
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More to the point, President Bush is appointing experienced individuals to key Defense and State Department posts who have for three years urged the United States to recognize a provisional government of Free Iraq and strip Saddam's regime of the trappings of international legitimacy.
"The U.S. State Department would do well to remember that it answers to the president of the United States, not the European Union, " DeLay said.
The Democratic 2016 front-runner announced her opposition to the project -- which is still the subject of a years-long State Department review -- as Pope Francis landed in the United States, dominating national media attention.
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In addition, the White House today released a Department of State and Department of Homeland Security report highlighting the progress of efforts to make the United States more welcoming to international visitors and demonstrating that they are on track to meet the goals of the President's January Executive Order.
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