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Diplomacy in Action

  • Date: 02/04/2013 Description: Secretary of State John Kerry displays his first diplomatic passport, while delivering welcome remarks to U.S. Department of State employees in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2013. - State Dept Image

    Date: 02/04/2013 Description: Secretary of State John Kerry displays his first diplomatic passport, while delivering welcome remarks to U.S. Department of State employees in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2013. - State Dept Image

Secretary of StateJohn F. Kerry

The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President's chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service, and U.S. Agency for International Development. On February 1, 2013, John Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States.

Travel to Sweden

Date: 05/14/2013 Description: Secretary of State John Kerry is greeted by Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Chief of Protocol Caroline Vicini upon arriving in Kiruna, Sweden, for the Arctic Council's Ministerial Meeting on May 14, 2013. - State Dept Image

Secretary Kerry traveled to Stockholm, Sweden and Kiruna, Sweden, May 14-15.

FY 2014 Budget Request

Date: 04/17/2013 Description: Secretary Kerry testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill. - State Dept Image

Secretary Kerry (Apr. 18): "I know that budgets, deficits, and debt are all weighty decisions.  We’re grappling with them at the State Department too, and I think our proposed budget is responsive to and reflective of the national economic reality." Full Text»  More»

21st Century Pacific Partnership

Date: 04/15/2013 Description: Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech about US-Pacific relations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, on April 15, 2013. - State Dept Image

Secretary Kerry (Apr. 15): "My commitment to you is that as a Pacific nation that takes our Pacific partnership seriously, we will continue to build on our active and enduring presence." Full Text»

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