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Posted: October 31st, 2006, 3:00am PST
Please note audio includes questions and answers session. Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky and Mike Morris, AEP Chairman, President American Electric Power I am pleased to announce that the United States, along with Australia, China, India, Japan and the Republic of Korea, endorsed nearly 100 individual projects as part of the first phase of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.
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Posted: October 31st, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:23 p.m. EST MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon. I don't have any opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. QUESTION: Sean, on North Korea, of course. MR. MCCORMACK: Yes. QUESTION: Please, is the U.S. making any concessions here? And in that format, should they get rolling again, will there be opportunities, as there were in the past, for direct U.S.
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Posted: October 30th, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:35 p.m. EST MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. I don't have any opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. Who wants to start? Go ahead, Sylvie. QUESTION: The Lebanese leader Walid Jumblatt is in the building today and he's supposed to meet with the Secretary.
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Posted: October 27th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:00 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon everybody. I have one brief opening statement and then we can get right into your questions. The statement concerns congratulations to the Sakharov Prize winner Alexander Milinkevich. The United States congratulates Alexander Milinkevich of Belarus on winning the prestigious Sakharov Prize from the conference of the Presidents in the European Parliament.
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Posted: October 27th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
QUESTION: Good evening, Mr. Welch. MR. WELCH: Good evening to you. QUESTION: (Cross talk) this week, President Bush reiterated his support for the government of Prime Minister Siniora. But in light of the political divisions in Lebanon and in light of the presence of a group of Lebanese (cross talk) for the war in Lebanon.
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Posted: October 26th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:42 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. Don't have any opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. Who wants to start? QUESTION: Well, if I can remind myself what this is. You know, South Korea now estimates North Korea has enough plutonium to make as many as seven nuclear bombs, according to a defense ministry report.
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Posted: October 24th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:30 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. No opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. Who wants to start? QUESTION: I do. There are a few things going on, Darfur for instance. Kofi Annan's rep is leaving, left -- MR. MCCORMACK: Right.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2006, 4:00am PDT
1:02 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: I don't have any opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. Who wants to start off? QUESTION: Anything on the Secretary's meeting with ElBaradei? MR. MCCORMACK: She -- they talked about a few different topics, talked a little bit about North Korea, talked about Iran, talked about the issue of fuel assurances.
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Posted: October 20th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:48 p.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Happy Friday. Glad to be here with you. Don't have any opening states or announcements, so let's get right to your questions. QUESTION: I thought you were going to say something about the Mets.
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Posted: October 19th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
11:51 a.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Okay. Good morning, everyone, since we are still a little before noon. Pleasure to be here with you. I don't have any announcements for you. And the only statement I have in light of game 7 tonight between the Cardinals and Mets is let's go Mets.
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Posted: October 18th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:40 p.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Good afternoon, everyone. I don't have any statements or announcements for you. So let's get right to your questions. QUESTION: (Inaudible) something with you? Is the U.S. pressing the Iraqi Prime Minister for some sort of a -- what the hell is it called -- amnesty for insurgents?
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Posted: October 18th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
QUESTION: What did Secretary receive in her last trip to the Middle East? ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH: Well, President Bush told the world community that Secretary Rice would be working to try to bring our friends and partners closer together in terms of peace.
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Posted: October 17th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:35 p.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to a rainy Tuesday at the State Department. I don't have any opening statements or announcements for you. So, Barry, let's go right to your questions. QUESTION: I don't have any questions. MR. CASEY: Well, there you go.
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Posted: October 13th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:15 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. I have one brief announcement for you. It is a travel-related announcement. I want to let you know that Secretary Rice will be traveling with scheduled stops now in Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing from October 17th through the 22nd.
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Posted: October 12th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:35 p.m. EDT QUESTION: Sean, (inaudible) I have to read the 15 questions today? (Laughter.) MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. Well, that is not welcome news Lambros. (Laughter.) Don't have any statements, so let's get right into your questions.
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Posted: October 10th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:34 p.m. EDT MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. No opening statements, so we can get right into your questions, whoever wants to start. QUESTION: Well, let's try here, but this may not be the place. The Washington Times is reporting that there's some lack of confidence that North Korea actually conducted a nuclear test, that the readings are below what you'd expect for such a detonation.
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Posted: October 6th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:53 p.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Afternoon, everyone. Don't have any opening announcements for you, but I do have a statement that I'd like to call your attention to and we'll be putting this out in electronic and in text form after the briefing. On Sunday the people of Pakistan will mark the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck that country on October 8, 2005.
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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 4:00am PDT
12:45 p.m. EDT MR. CASEY: Good afternoon, everyone. I don't have any statements or announcements so let's go right to your questions. Sue. QUESTION: Do you have anything new on North Korea? Have you heard back from them yet after Chris Hill sent something to them yesterday?