I understand that you have been on your current job for, you said, 30 days and that the Obama administration is still in its first 100 days.
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Acknowledging the new administration's early challenges in addressing pollution issues.
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Please ensure that they safeguard civil society and philanthropy, both internationally and at home.
The Department of State is determined to implement the Combating Global Corruption Act and to support it with the necessary resources.
The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.
I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said, but it still begs the question that without much complaint Azerbaijan is now occupying part of Armenia--strategic part of Armenia--and there has been no real protest about their controlling the highlands next to Nagorno-Karabakh that puts Armenia at tremendous risk of the corridor that could divide the country or lose its southern edge, and I have not seen much of a fuss made by the international community.





