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This budget will help us continue the fight against HIV/AIDS, while advancing health security more broadly.

Keeping our promises to those who served alongside the U.S. remains an unwavering priority.

The immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively, of course, through its brutal aggression against Ukraine.

President Biden is firmly committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific.

I share your concerns about endemic corruption in Lebanon, officials' reluctance to implement reforms, and stalled presidential elections.

The United States has an enduring interest in the Black Sea region and we are working on a strategy that will strengthen our political, security, economic, and energy cooperation with the region and promote democratic resilience.

We welcome Ukraine's EU candidacy and support the Ukrainian government's efforts to advance necessary institution-building in line with Ukraine's European path.

I think there are a number of countries, for example, where looking at some marginalized groups that have been particularly victimized, like the LGBTQI+ community, there are some countries where we have actually seen real progress in…

We continue to see democratic backsliding, and backsliding on human rights in a number of countries.

I think it is a way of--strongly encouraging, countries to take steps that they need to take to improve the human rights picture.

We have seen President Zelenskyy go at challenges of corruption, or misuse of funds in the government with a sledgehammer.

I believe if we do that we will see its effectiveness in leveraging more private sector investment go up significantly.

I fully share your view that the DFC is a critical tool, one that I think we are using, increasingly, effectively.

I agree with you, the Taliban is taking steps that are digging an even deeper hole for the people of Afghanistan.

The problem that we face now is exactly what you pointed to, the edicts promulgated by the Taliban, preventing women from participating in the delivery of assistance.

We have been, even since the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and ending the war, the largest single humanitarian contributor to Afghanistan.

I think as it now stands, the world has moved on, and I think we have to focus, in the first instance, on what we can do.

I do, but it is also based on the--what we hear.