While women are disproportionately affected by conflict, they are “underrepresented in the halls of power: from local governments, all the way up to multilateral organizations,” said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield.
"As a result of these partnerships, as a result of this extraordinary effort, nearly twice as many Afghans came to the United States in 2024 than the year before,” said Secretary Blinken.
The G7 is concerned about “China’s ongoing support for Russia’s defense industrial base – all of which is allowing Russia to continue the aggression against Ukraine,” said Secretary Blinken.
“Punishing Dong for exercising his freedom of speech and the press, guaranteed by the PRC’s constitution for all its citizens, is unjust,” said U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.
"Our G7 partners pledged steadfast support for Ukraine into and through 2025 ... sharing the burden, determined to do everything that we can to help Ukraine deal with the ongoing Russian aggression," said Secretary Blinken.
“Gender-based violence remains pandemic, with one in three women worldwide experiencing intimate partner and/or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime,” said Ambassador Lu.
"America is profoundly committed to the defense of the Philippines. Our commitment to the Mutual Defense Treaty is ironclad," said Secretary Austin.
“We are within striking distance of eliminating HIV-transmission. We have the science. We have the treatments. Most of all, we have each other,” said President Joe Biden in a statement.
“The gender gap has a real economic cost. The energy sector has one of the largest examples of that gap. Only 16 percent of traditional energy sector employees are women. And it’s about 32 percent in the clean energy sector,” said Assistant Secretary Pyatt.
“We launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, bringing together 14 countries – some 40 percent of the world’s GDP – to build more secure supply chains, to combat corruption, to transition to clean energy,” said Secretary Blinken.
“We continue to urge the PRC government and Hong Kong authorities,” stated Spokesperson Miller, “to uphold Hong Kong’s judicial independence, cease the use of vague national security laws to silence those peacefully expressing their political views.”
The U.S.-China relationship is the most important "relationship in the entire world. And how we get along together is going to impact the rest of the world,” said President Biden.
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