John Kerry: What We Got Right →
Check out Secretary Kerry’s opinion piece in today’s New York Times: “What We Got Right”
Human trafficking continues today to be a threat to freedom and stability, undermining the rule of law, scarring communities, and degrading the rights of individuals. We must not waver in our resolve to combat this crime.
— Secretary Kerry on National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness.
There should be no indifference or excuses when it comes to the use of any chemical weapon. Instead, there should be accountability. The United Nations Security Council needs to vote soon on a resolution to hold accountable individuals involved in the Syrian chemical weapons program
— Thomas M. Countryman, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security discusses the reasons the UNSC should support a resolution providing for accountability for chemical weapons use, on Medium.
During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we resolve to shine a light on every dark corner where human trafficking still threatens the basic rights and freedoms of others.
— President Barack Obama
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Read Secretary John Kerry’s exit memo to President Obama.
Secretary Kerry underscores the impact of U.S. Global Leadership in an exit memo to President Obama, January 5, 2017. Read more on DipNote.
The annual Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) highlights U.S. companies that uphold the highest standards of responsible business conduct in their global operations. Watch the 2016 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) ceremony live on January 5, 2017 at 10:30 EST at www.state.gov. You can learn more about the ACE at https://www.state.gov/e/eb/ace/.
It is vital that we all work to keep open the possibility of peace, that we not lose hope in the two-state solution, no matter how difficult it may seem – because there really is no viable alternative.
— Secretary of State John Kerry on Middle East Peace, December 28, 2016
(Source: state.gov)
The Assad regime is actually carrying out nothing short of a massacre. And we have witnessed indiscriminate slaughter – not accidents of war, not collateral damage, but frankly, purposeful, a cynical policy of terrorizing civilians.
— Secretary Kerry in his remarks on Syria.
Secretary Kerry: “What has happened in #Aleppo is unconscionable.”
