Category: March 2012

National 4-H Youth Conference Center Chevy Chase, Maryland As Prepared for Delivery Good Morning. Thank you, Stephen, for that kind introduction.  Thank you, Secretary Vilsack, for your terrific leadership.  Dr. Lauxman, thank you for hosting this conference and for your great work. It is great to be with 4-H-rs from all around the country!  I…

Attached and signed by the President today is a technical trade proclamation to modify duty-free treatment under the generalized system of preferences and for other purposes as well as a message to Congress signed by the President today regarding Argentina and a message to Congress signed by the President today regarding South Sudan.

President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Kingdom of Tonga to attend the State Funeral of His Majesty King George Topou V on March 27, 2012. The Honorable Frankie A. Reed, Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu, will lead the delegation. Members of the Presidential Delegation: The…

I congratulate Macky Sall on his victory in Senegal’s presidential elections.  Domestic and international observers report that the election was carried out transparently, freely, and reflects the will of the Senegalese people. I also recognize President Abdoulaye Wade for his leadership and friendship to the United States during his presidency.  I look forward to building…

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: Brett H. McGurk – Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Department of State Michele J. Sison – Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives, Department of State President Obama…

We, the leaders of Belgium, France, the United States and the Republic of Korea gathered in Seoul on the occasion of the Second Nuclear Security Summit recognize that the ultimate goal of nuclear security is advanced by minimizing highly-enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian use, which is declared in the Washington Communique and the Work Plan…

Sweden has been a global leader on nonproliferation, and was one of the first countries to return highly enriched uranium based spent fuel under the U.S. Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel (FRR SNF) Acceptance Program, which began in 1996 as part of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). NNSA has worked…

The Presidents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and the United States of America have committed to combat the threat of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Since 2004 our three countries have been collaborating to implement a number of projects aimed at elimination of the remnants of the past nuclear testing activities within…

From 1949 through 1989, the Soviet Union conducted hundreds of underground nuclear tests and experiments at the former Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS). Located in remote eastern Kazakhstan, the STS occupies approximately 18,000 square kilometers, almost the size of New Jersey and over five times the size of the Nevada Test Site. After achieving independence, Kazakhstan…

Seoul, Republic of Korea 10:32 A.M. KST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Please, thank you very much. To President Park, faculty, staff and students, thank you so much for this very warm welcome.  It is a great honor to be here at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.  (Applause.) …