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  • President Obama Cairo Speech SMS Service

    Be among the first to receive highlights from President Barack Obama's historic speech to be given in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, June 4, 2009 through SMS updates created by the US Department of State.

  • Obama Seeks Enhanced Engagement with the Middle East, Europe

    Washington — The centerpiece of President Obama’s five-day visit to the Middle East and to Europe will be his speech June 4 at Cairo University on U.S. relations with the Muslim world, say White House advisers.

  • Obama’s Policy Agenda for the Middle East

    Please follow link by clicking on image above for transcripts of speeches and America.gov articles that provide background on President Obama’s policy agenda in the Middle East.

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Country Reports on Terrorism 2008
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. Following are excerpts from the Country Terrorism Reports, in English, followed by the same translated copy in Arabic.

U.S. Embassy Statement on Political Violence in Yemen
The United States Embassy in Sana’a views with concern reports of increasing incidences of political violence in southern regions of Yemen. The United States supports a stable, unified, and democratic Yemen. The United States was one of the first countries to recognize the newly unified Yemen in 1990.

American Citizen Assistance
The U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen has assisted an American citizen parent in regaining physical custody of her two American minor children. The Embassy is assisting in the repatriation of the children and their mother to the United States. The American citizen parent has sole legal custody of the children, which has been affirmed by American courts

Speech by President Obama on U.S. Economy: A New Foundation
It has now been twelve weeks since my administration began. And I think even our critics would agree that at the very least, we’ve been busy. In just under three months, we have responded to an extraordinary set of economic challenges with extraordinary action – action that has been unprecedented in both its scale and its speed.

United States Seeks Multilateral Diplomacy with World Community
Washington — The perception that the United States has not been engaging the world community and has been pursuing foreign affairs unilaterally is erroneous, and even more so with the Obama administration, a senior U.S. diplomat says.