US Mission Geneva

The international movement to beat the AIDS epidemic has achieved more in the last 10 years than anyone would have thought possible in 2002. Eight million people around the world are receiving life sustaining treatment to control HIV infection and prevent the development of AIDS. Millions more need it as governments around the world develop strategies on how to sustain and expand the population now receiving treatment.

“As you have probably seen from the Secretary’s incredible record-breaking travel, we are extremely engaged around the world with a very fulsome foreign policy agenda, doing the kind of work that is necessary to maintain and strengthen existing alliances with NATO and our European partners and addressing some of the economic crises that are ongoing and that perhaps some of you are interested in following, as the economy is something that’s critical.”

Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced July 26 the United States’ participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum’s Cross-Border Privacy Rules system.

The United States supports a second round of negotiations, conducted on the basis of consensus, on the Treaty next year; we do not support a vote in the UNGA on the current text.

Kicking off her visit in London, Michelle Obama reminded Team USA’s athletes that American children everywhere look up to them not only as excellent athletes, but also as promoters of active lifestyles.

The testimony follows President Obama’s announcement last month of a new U.S. strategy for expanding trade and investment with sub-Saharan Africa.

The Obama administration is concerned that Bashar al-Assad’s regime is planning a massacre in Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, given credible reports of troops and equipment massing nearby, and attacks by fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter gunships and artillery, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says.

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PRM Assistant Secretary Anne C. Richard will travel to Burkina Faso and Geneva, July 29- August 4, 2012, with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres to review the situation of refugees from the crisis in Mali, which is taking place within the broader Sahel food insecurity emergency.