Ensuring rule of law and fair trial guarantees also helps create the conditions to attract investment and support sustainable economic development.

Unfortunately, however, that possibility seems distant.

I will also work to ensure that women and youth are engaged as meaningful participants at the negotiating table.

A free press is an essential pillar of democracy.

There is a real need to strengthen alliances with our traditional partners, to defeat ISIS and other terrorist organizations, to confront and roll back destabilizing and pernicious Iranian behavior, and to work to build a more peaceful and…

I built support for resolutions to hold the Venezuelan Government to account for its serious violations of human rights.

I further commit to advocating for the protection of human rights and against anti-democratic legislation that could thwart the development of the country's democratic values and institutions.

I commend the Armenian people, law enforcement, and Acting Prime Minister Pashinyan for ensuring the protests and subsequent government transition were non-violent.

The U.S. Government continues to call on the Nicaraguan Government to immediately cease all government-sponsored violence.

I will make it one of my top goals to make sure that continues to be the case and those dollars are spent wisely.

It is up to the Congolese people to vote for their next president.

The cornerstone of sanctions against Russia remains unity between the United States and its allies, especially U.S.-EU unity, and the chief goal is to impose costs on Russia's Government and on institutions and individuals that enable…