US Mission Geneva

Ambassador King: “The challenges have never been greater, nor our collective efforts more important, to reducing disaster risk.”

Representatives from more than 190 nations convened for the World Health Assembly May 20 with a record of achievement and a challenge for the future.

This year’s World Health Assembly theme of ensuring health’s place in the next generation of global development goals is one that we in the Americas welcome.

As a Nation, we need to do everything we can to create good, middle-class jobs right here in America. And one of the best ways we can do that is by boosting manufacturing and expanding trade that allows us to sell more of our goods and services all around the world.

Wendy Sherman told a congressional panel that the Iranian regime has chosen to isolate its people, stunt the country’s economic growth, repress freedom of expression and align the nation with global terrorism.

Use of new technologies is bringing unexpectedly large increases in available, affordable energy for the U.S., a trend that will ripple through global markets, the energy supply chain and economies.

The new assistance builds on the significant ongoing commitment of the United States to address the crisis in Mali.

The Arctic Council presides over one of the Earth’s coldest places, but the warming of the Arctic and the overall planetary trend of climate change were the dominant topics as the council met May 15 in Kiruna, Sweden.

The US and Russia have announced an initiative “to bring the Syrian regime and the opposition together in an effort to try to advance a political solution under the framework agreed to in Geneva in June 2012. In our view, the resolution before you is consistent with this latest initiative.”