Lompoc, California - The United States and Japan held the bilateral Extended Deterrence Dialogue (EDD), November 17-19, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Oslo, Norway - Experts from twenty-five countries, both nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states gathered in Oslo, Norway from November 16-18, to launch the work of the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification.

Washington, DC - Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State David Thorne will travel to Monterrey, Mexico November 21-23, 2015. In Monterrey, Ambassador Thorne will participate in the Startup Nations Summit, where he will give remarks on U.S. government policies and programs supporting entrepreneurship. Accompanying Ambassador Thorne to Mexico will be Thomas Lersten, Director of the State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program.

Washington, DC - We, the Leaders of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, met today to mark the conclusion of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. We congratulate our Ministers and negotiating teams, after more than five years of negotiations, on delivering a result that achieves the goal set out in 2011 of a comprehensive, balanced, and transformational regional agreement – one that spans the Pacific, touches three continents, and unites 800 million people.

Reston, Virginia - More than 180 million metric tons of undiscovered copper resources may be found in an area of the Middle East that covers Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, western Pakistan and southwestern Afghanistan, according to a recent assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate is ten times the current annual world production for copper.

Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "Well, Bill, thank you very, very much. Good morning to everybody. Thank you all for taking time to be here. Thank you for, Bill, your – not just the introduction, but for your outstanding leadership of the Diplomatic Security Service. And I want to thank Schlehr from Raytheon and from my home state, and the 34 member organizations of OSAC for your tremendous contributions at a moment where the reality of what George Shultz thought of doing 30 years ago or so has a lot more meaning, a lot more impact.