Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Speeches, Testimony, and Interviews 2008

--10/10/08  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee At the Signing of the U.S.-India Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Benjamin Franklin Room, Washington, DC
--10/09/08  Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations With the U.S.; Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard A. Boucher; With Faiz Rehman of ARY TV; Washington, DC
--10/05/08  Remarks En Route Astana, Kazakhstan; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; En Route Astana, Kazakhstan
--10/05/08  Remarks With Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Foreign Ministry; Astana, Kazakhstan
--10/04/08  Remarks With Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Hyderabad House; New Delhi, India
--10/03/08  Remarks En Route to New Delhi, India; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; En route New Delhi, India
--10/02/08  Remarks on the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (123 Agreement); Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Treaty Room; Washington, DC
--09/29/08  Remarks with Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin Before Their Meeting ; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Waldorf-Astoria; New York City
--09/26/08  Remarks After Friends of Pakistan Meeting; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; United Nations Headquarters; New York City
--09/26/08  Statement by the Chairmen of the Friends of Pakistan 
--09/25/08  Remarks With Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Loy Henderson Conference Room; Washington, DC
--09/24/08  Briefing on Sri Lanka; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Waldorf-Astoria; New York City
--09/18/08  Interview With Rob Watson of BBC World Service; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; London, U.K.
--09/17/08  Remarks to the Press; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks at the U.S. Mission to NATO; Brussels, Belgium
--09/11/08  The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Current Situation; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs ; Remarks to U.S.-India Alliance and Congressional Taskforce on U.S.-India Investment and Trade Relations Event; Washington, DC
--08/22/08  Working Towards the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks at the U.S. Consulate Mumbai; Mumbai, India
--08/08/08  U.S. and Japan: A Joint Approach to South and Central Asia; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs ; Briefing and Press Conference; Tokyo, Japan 
--08/06/08  U.S.-Maldives Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks a the American Corner, Maldives National Library; Male’, Maldives
--08/03/08  U.S.-Sri Lanka Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Colombo, Sri Lanka 
--07/22/08  Kazakhstan and the 2010 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Chairmanship; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Statement Before the Helsinki Commission; Washington, DC
--07/16/08  Remarks as Department of State Welcomes South Asian Seeds of Peace Participants; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Delegates Lounge; Washington, DC
--07/14/08  Opposing View: We're Making Solid Progress (Afghanistan); Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Op Ed in USA Today
--07/03/08  U.S.-Sri Lanka Relations; Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Interview with Shakuntala Perera, The Daily Mirror; Colombo, Sri Lanka
--07/02/08  U.S.-Pakistan Dialogue; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks to the Press; Islamabad, Pakistan
--06/27/08  U.S.-India Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks at the Annual Convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin ; Las Vegas, Nevada
--06/25/08  A New Strategy for Enhanced Partnership With Pakistan; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--06/18/08  Special Briefing On the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
--06/13/08  Pakistan/Afghanistan - U.S. Relations;  Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Paris, France
--06/12/08  Remarks at Afghanistan Donors’ Conference; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Paris, France
--06/12/08  USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood
--06/10/08  Briefing on the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Washington, DC
--05/29/08  Turkmenistan: Change and the Future; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
--05/29/08  U.S.-Nepal Relations; Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Washington, DC
--05/20/08  Pakistan's Fata Challenge: Securing One of the World's Most Dangerous Areas; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--05/14/08  U.S. Assistance to South Asia: Is There a Strategy To Go With All That Money?; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Statement before the Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC
--05/01/08  Kazakhstan: Confirmation Hearing Testimony; Richard E. Hoagland, Ambassador-Designate to Kazakhstan; Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--04/23/08  The Year Ahead in South and Central Asia; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--04/14/08  Supporting Afghanistan; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks at Press Conference; Kabul, Afghanistan
--04/08/08  Central Asia: An Overview; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment; Washington, DC
--04/07/08  Strategic Context of U.S.-India Relations; Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Briefing to Harvard University Weatherhead Fellows; Washington, DC
--04/02/08  A Democratic Stable South and Central Asia; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary; Washington, DC
--04/02/08  Tajikistan and U.S. Relations; Pamela Spratlen, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia; Remarks at the Center for Strategic Studies; Dushanbe, Tajikistan
--03/27/08  Press Conference in Pakistan; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Karachi, Pakistan
--03/25/08  U.S.-India Relations; Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Interview With Times Now Television (India); Washington, DC
--03/24/08  Remarks With Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Kumar Mukherjee; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Remarks following meeting; Washington, DC
--03/18/08  Press Conference on U.S.-Kyrgyz Relations; Pamela Spratlen, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
--03/12/08  Interview With Outlook Magazine (India); Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Washington, DC
--03/06/08  Emergency Supplemental Request for Iraq and Afghanistan; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State ; Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee; Washington, DC
--03/06/08  Excerpt on Afghanistan from Secretary Rice's Meeting with NATO Foreign Ministers; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Brussels, Belgium
--03/05/08  Excerpts from Remarks on U.S.-India Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; New Delhi, India
--03/05/08  Indian and U.S. Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for Central Asia Affairs; Remarks to the Press; New Delhi, India
--03/05/08  U.S.-India Relations; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks to the Television Press; New Delhi, India
--02/29/08  Interview With Asian News International (Television); R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Washington, DC
--02/29/08  Interview With the Hindustan Times; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Washington, DC
--02/29/08  A Preview of the Bucharest NATO Summit: Afghanistan, Enlargement, and the Future of the Alliance; Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; SAIS – Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Johns Hopkins University; Washington, DC
--02/28/08  Recent Developments in Pakistan; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary; The Deputy Secretary’s Written Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--02/27/08  Interview With National Public Radio; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs;  ; Washington, DC
--02/21/08  Media Roundtable on South and Central Asian; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks to U.S. Mission to the European Union; Brussels, Belgium
--02/17/08  Interview With Savitri Rodrigo for the Benchmark Business and Current Affairs Television Program; Robert Blake, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka; Colombo, Sri Lanka
--02/14/08  U.S. Policy in Afghanistan; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee; Washington, DC
--02/11/08  Remarks at Foreign Press Association in London; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; London, England
--02/07/08  Remarks With UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Kabul, Afghanistan
--02/07/08  Remarks With UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband at Kandahar Air Base; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Kandahar, Afghanistan
--02/07/08  Roots of Peace Builds School on Former Afghan Battlefield with Contributions from American Students
--01/31/08  Afghanistan: A Plan to Turn the Tide; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secreatary for South and Central Asian Affairs; Remarks Before the Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC