“Basic freedoms have eroded. Electoral rights have come under assault. Corruption has eaten away at hope. Under the Summit banner, over the past three years, we have risen together to meet this challenge," said Secretary Blinken.
In 2023, USAID launched the Global Accelerator to End TB Plus initiative. One of the program’s ambitious goals is to reach and deliver prevention and care services to 90 percent of people with TB.
“Every person should have a right and the ability to have access to clean water,” said U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
The United States wants "to ensure that countries in the Pacific have a choice and the ability to make their own sovereign decisions free from coercion,” said Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink.
Secretary Blinken said that "only the Haitian people should determine their own future - not anyone else. But all of us ... CARICOM, the United States, our other partners – we can help."
"We’ve seen in a number of instances where the People’s Republic of China has taken a number of steps in the South China Sea that both run counter to international law," said Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink.
“As food prices hit record highs following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we rushed to get high quality seeds, fertilizer and financing to the markets and into the hands of some of the world's poorest farmer farmers,” said USAID Assistant to the Administrator Esposito.
"The U.S. Agency for International Development is supporting access to clean energy in Ghana through initiatives like supporting small holder farmers to install solar-powered irrigation," said Acting Assistant Secretary Littlejohn.
"Humanitarian access to all Syrians ... must be unhindered. That includes cross-line humanitarian deliveries to the Rukban settlement, where the regime and Russia continue to block UN convoys,” said Ambassador Wood.
In Ukraine, "you have not seen the blackouts that occurred last winter, and that's partly as a result of the assistance that USAID has provided," said Deputy Assistant Administrator Simakovsky.
“Ukraine's friends, including the United States, European allies and countries from around the world, have worked together to help keep Ukrainian farmers able to plant their fields," said Deputy Administrator Coleman.
"[T]he United States is working side by side with Brazil to support its efforts to preserve the rainforest, to combat deforestation," said Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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