"They've already had successful parliamentary elections, " said Mark Toner, the State Department's deputy spokesman.

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Yesterday, Mark Toner of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that it was cancelling funding for the Pakistani version of Sesame Street.

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"This certainly isn't going to stop Ambassador Ford from continuing his important outreach to the Syrian people, " Deputy State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington.

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In October, deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner told CNN that although the United States and Italy have an extradition treaty, he was not able to answer speculative questions on extradition issues.

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In 2011, deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner told CNN that although the United States and Italy have an extradition treaty, he was not able to answer speculative questions on extradition issues in the Knox case.

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Before the trip, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told the news agency Mrs Clinton was "mindful of all the sensitivities" but that US policy believed that "any change of the name of a country should be a decision" for its people.

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