Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a Special Event to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 21, 2015 Thank you, and thank you, everybody, for being here. Let me thank you, Ambassador Winid, and the Polish Mission to the United Nations for organizing this ... Read More»

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the U.S. Embassy in Oslo are pleased to announce two four-week Summer Institutes – the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship (BFTF), for up to 90 young Europeans and Americans. The institutes intend to foster relationships among the younger generations of Europeans and Americans ... Read More»

In July 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr. as the first U.S. Special Representative to the Arctic and emphasized that “The Arctic region is the last global frontier and a region with enormous and growing geostrategic, economic, climate, environment, and national security implications for the United States and the ... Read More»