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The Obama Administration is pleased to announce another important step to address the humanitarian impacts of anti-personnel landmines (APL). Specifically, the United States is aligning its APL policy outside the…

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE September 23, 2014 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear…

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE September 23, 2014 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear…

The United States is deeply concerned by today’s sentencing of prominent Uighur Ilham Tohti to life imprisonment on charges of separatism. He is a respected professor who has long championed…

Via Telephone 12:12 P.M. EDT MS. HAYDEN: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. You’ve already heard this morning from the President and from the Pentagon, but we wanted to…

Vice President Biden spoke today with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to review efforts to strengthen bilateral trade ties and increase regional cooperation on matters like energy and security. The…

Oval Office 2:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. All right, don’t knock anything over. (Laughter.) It’s always a little hazardous. It is a great pleasure for me to welcome…

Good afternoon everyone. It’s great to be back at Brookings. This was my place for six years, and since my mother and I both worked here for so long, it…

The President called Prime Minister Key late last evening to congratulate him on his third electoral victory. The President noted the strength of the U.S.-New Zealand relationship and said he…

Vice President Joe Biden spoke today with Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz. The Vice President congratulated Prime Minister Kopacz on her government’s swearing in and pledged to continue close consultation…