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Alliance leaders agreed that the Afghan National Security Forces will move into the lead for combat operations in mid-2013.
The United States has named its first ambassador in 22 years and announced the intent to ease restrictions on new American investment.
The United States invests hundreds of millions of dollars in water sector activities around the world.
Over a billion people, one in every six people living on this planet, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases.
New reality poses opportunities for trade, investment, and job creation, as well as challenges.
We are working to build a relationship that allows both of our countries to flourish.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed legally binding sanctions on Iran, including a conventional arms ban.
Civil society groups are playing an increasingly important role in global affairs.
Journalists around the world face blackmail, exile, imprisonment, assault and murder as they try to do their jobs.
In 1992, the Voice of America recognized a growing need to provide reliable news and information to Kurds.
Our broad goal is a vibrant, seamless regional economy with global supply chains clustered around the Pacific Rim.
The United States wants Bangladesh to be a prosperous, successful, democratic country.
Many journalists around the world who have been jailed, attacked, disappeared, and forced into exile or murdered for reporting truth.
The United States is urging India to reduce its dependence on oil imports from Iran.
U.S. economic policy toward China focuses on expanding opportunities for U.S. companies and on improving cooperation.
Respect for human rights is an integral aspect of the bilateral relationship that cannot be separated out.
The United States and Afghanistan have signed a historic agreement “that defines a new kind of relationship between our countries."
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of the National League for Democracy have taken their seats in parliament.
Initiative that would encourage a network of economic, transit, energy, and people-to-people connections.
"Our hopes for a 21st century less bloody than the 20th century all hinge to a large degree on what happens in the Asia-Pacific region."
