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I expect that strong U.S. leadership will continue to advance this progress and closer bilateral relations will open up new opportunities for the United States.

I have been disappointed with the Biden administration's communication with Congress on human trafficking and hope that filling this position will grant this important issue the attention that it deserves.

I commend our diplomats in Moscow for continuing to keep our embassy operational in spite of these challenges.

I look forward to hearing your plans to confront these issues.

We must build on recent though tenuous progress in countering these efforts, which began during the Trump administration and not giving in to Russian pressure tactics.

Thank you very much, and thank you, Ms. Tracy, for being willing to take on this job.

We consistently raise issues of accountability and transitional justice in the course of our diplomacy and offer technical and fiscal support as we are able to those lines of effort wherever they are welcome.

I will also work with the Canadians and other partner countries on the NATO battlegroup in Latvia to ensure plans are moving forward to strengthen that battlegroup in line with NATO's Madrid Summit declaration and Strategic Concept.

I will work with the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure our posture is commensurate to the threats and challenges we face on NATO's eastern flank.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had huge effects on Ukraine's neighbors, not least Romania.

Latvia has done incredible work to strengthen its defense cooperation with the United States and NATO.

Since Russia's unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bulgarians have generously opened their hearts and homes to refugees from Ukraine.

We believe strongly in the principle of African solutions for African problems, and endeavor to support the AU leadership's efforts to reduce and resolve conflicts.

I will regularly engage with the ethnic Russian population in Latvia through trips to Russian-speaking regions and engagement with Russian-speaking minority groups.

Putin continues his unjust, unprovoked, and inhumane war on Ukraine, which includes deliberate attacks on civilian critical infrastructure.

If confirmed, I will work closely with the Latvian Government to strengthen Latvia and NATO's ability to defend Latvian borders against Russia's aggression.

Full implementation of the Algiers Accord remains the best path to peace in northern Mali.

I echo Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's observation 'that a Mali isolated from its community of nations and ECOWAS is not where Mali wants to be.'