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Under Secretary Glassman: "While official diplomacy is aimed at officials – our Secretary of State talking to their foreign minister – public diplomacy is aimed at publics – our officials and often our publics engaging with their publics. So a simple breakdown of public diplomacy puts our work into three categories: first, telling America’s story, explaining our policies and principles to the world; second, engaging in cultural and educational exchanges in battle-tested programs like the Fulbright fellowships; and third, fighting the war of ideas, which is what I want to talk to you about today." Full Text |
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Deputy Spokesman Wood (Nov. 3): "We’re going to work hard. It’s a process. ...what’s really critical here is that both sides are committed to trying to reach an agreement. And as I said, we will support them in every way possible, and that’s what we’re going to do." Full Text | | |  | | U.S.-Libya Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement
Assistant Secretary Welch (Oct. 31): "I’d like to talk a little bit about these arrangements here in a moment, but first let me step back and say something about the importance of this step. Some time ago, Libya renounced terrorism and took steps to begin to remove itself from the implications that its relationship with past acts of terrorism had. Also, they decided, around the same period of time, to get out of the WMD business, foreswearing weapons of mass destruction." Full Text | | |  | | Your Chance To Ask a Question: Briefing 2.0
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Peru
![Incan ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru, July 2006. [© AP Images]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081105055423im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/peru2.jpg) When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization. Centered at Cuzco, the Incan Empire extended over a vast region from northern Ecuador to central Chile. More...
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