U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau makes a strong case for economic partnership and sustainable energy during a visit to a U.S. solar plant in Hidalgo, Mexico, Sept. 11. The solar plant generates enough electricity to supply 100,000 houses. The newly launched United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) promises a boon...
By Scott Kennedy and Lisa Cantonwine
Embassy Canberra hosted an office management specialist (OMS) workshop for Mission Australia staff, May 7. Participants from the embassy and the consulates in Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney gathered at the stately and historic chief of mission residence in Canberra for a full day of...
By Katie Zitzer
Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted the 16th Annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards in a virtual ceremony at the Department of State, March 14. First Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden, joined Blinken at the ceremony to celebrate the achievements of the 2022...
By Manuel Pereira Colocci
Knowing how to make a product does not necessarily mean that you know how to sell it or how to make a successful business of it. That is the thought behind the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) new program called the Academy for Women...
By Caleb Portnoy
On Nov. 10, 2021, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the United States and the People’s Republic of China agreed to accelerate climate action and cooperation. Throughout history, artists have moved society forward on gender issues, environmental protection, race relations, human rights, and much...
By Holly Paul
Health Units (HU) at U.S. embassies worldwide have long played a key role in providing medical preparedness training and ensuring that diplomats serving overseas are safe and ready for medical emergencies.
Embassy Skopje’s HU, looking for an efficient way to provide trauma training to more than 100 local...
Chargé d’Affaires Angela P. Aggeler (center) broke ground on the first permanent headquarters of the U.S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) along with USEFP’s Executive Director Rita Akhtar (right), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Additional Secretary Ambassador Faisal Tirmizi (left), Feb. 16. This marked a new milestone in...
Ambassador Earl Miller (front row, fifth from left) joined Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam, March 25, at the opening of “Friendship to All, Malice to None,” an outdoor exhibition highlighting the foreign policy of Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur...
By Maxine Lunn and Marina Kelly
On the heels of the first-ever U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit in Washington, a three-person delegation from the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR), led by Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Lochman, visited Fiji, Oct. 3-6. The ENR visit reinforced the Department of State’s support for the...
By Robert Watts
Many Department of State employees have discovered the value of Microsoft Teams on the Department’s network during the past several months. Now auto-starting on OpenNet desktops, available on GO Virtual, GO Browser, and mobile apps, Microsoft Teams combines the abilities of Skype for Business, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 Groups,...