Robert B. Zoellick, Vice Chairman International, Goldman Sachs, and former U.S. Trade Representative and Deputy Secretary of State, delivers third annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture in Shanghai, March 21, 2007 – “Sino-American Relations: From Shanghai Communiqué to Global Stakeholders >>More
Rice on Ninth Annual Report on International Religious Freedom (09/14/07)
SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. Today, I have transmitted to Congress the 9th Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. We hope that this report, which is also available on the Department's website, will continue to serve as a resource for all in the United States and in the international community who share our concerns about religious freedom. We also hope that it will serve to encourage those whose plight is documented in this report and whose right to believe, practice and worship freely is denied by their governments.
It is fitting that this week also marks the congruence of two major religious faiths. All around the world and here in the United States, Muslims are observing the month of Ramadan and Jews are observing Rosh Hashanah. By continuing the American tradition of worshiping freely and respectfully, American Jews and American Muslims are strengthening the freedom and pluralism that defines for us what it means to be an American....>> More
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