Event in United States

  • US Vice President Mike Pence To Visit Georgia

    GEORGIA, 2017/07/08 US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Georgia in late July, according to the White Home reported. In Tbilisi, the Vice President will meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, part others, and visit U.S. and Georgian troops participating in the Noble Partner exercise. As part of his diplomatic tour in Europe, Pence will as well visit Estonia and Montenegro.
  • US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visits Israel for talks

    ISRAEL, 2016/11/02 U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visited Israel for talks on the Iran nuclear transaction and other issues. The visit on Sunday came just weeks next the United States and Israel signed a $38 billion defense assistance transaction.
  • Obama to Attend G20 Summit in China

    UNITED STATES, 2016/09/06 The White Home announced that U.S. President Barack Obama is to travel to China and Laos in early September, during which he will attend the G20 summit and conduct his initial visit to Laos. Obama's September 2-9 trip will "highlight the President's ongoing commitment to the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation inclunding the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific," the White Home said in a statement. In China, Obama will participate in his final G20 summit, "where he will emphasize the need to continue building on the evolution made since 2009 in advancing strong, sustainable, and balanced world economic increase," the statement said.
  • Obama Japan Trip 2016: US President Calls For End To Nuclear Weapons On Historic Hiroshima Trip

    JAPAN, 2016/05/28 Next laying a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a brief speech, “The memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must at no time fade.” “Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Obama said. During his historic visit to Hiroshima over 70 years next the Japanese city became the target of an American atomic bomb, Obama reiterated his call for a “world without nuclear weapons.”
  • Obama Chides African Leaders Who Cling to Power

    BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29 Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president. The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc. "Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."
  • Obama: Kenya at 'crossroads' between peril and promise

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/27 Declaring Kenya at a "crossroads" between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the country of his father's birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its next. Closing his historic visit with an address to the Kenyan people, Obama traced the arc of the country's evolution from colonialism to independence, inclunding his own family's history here. Today, Obama said, young Kenyans are no longer constrained by the limited options of his grandfather, a cook for the country's former British rulers, or his father, who left to seek an education in America.
  • U.S., Kenya Leaders Co-Host Nairobi Entrepreneur Summit

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/25 Barack Obama is co-hosting a summit on world entrepreneurship with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, on the initial working day of the US leader's trip to East Africa. The two presidents spoke back-to-back at the opening of Saturday's conference, aimed at promoting businesses that promise to lift a lot of additional Africans out of poverty and help insulate societies against radicalisation. Obama landed in the Kenyan capital on Friday. Throngs of Kenyans lined the route of his convoy, cheering, whistling and waving as the motorcade passed by and a helicopter circled overhead.
  • Saudi king, most Gulf leaders to skip landmark US summit

    BAHRAIN, 2015/05/13 Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and leaders from three other Gulf states have cancelled plans to attend a landmark US-Gulf summit hosted by President Barack Obama this week amid persistent concerns in the region over US nuclear talks with Iran. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that newly named Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef would represent the world's top oil exporter at the summit, which US sources say will focus on military cooperation. The king’s son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will as well attend.
  • Initiative for Global Development

    UNITED STATES, 2014/10/19 The Initiative for World Improvment(IGD), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., will convene its Frontier 100 Forum in New York City on October 21st-22nd, 2014. The two-day invitation-only event, Africa: Innovative Investing in Emerging Markets, will convene corporate leaders from around the world to discuss opportunities and address challenges to investment in Africa. Each year, IGD hosts two forums, one preceding the World Economic Forum in Africa and one in New York City. The 2014 Africa Frontier 100 was held in Abuja, in recognition of Nigeria realigning its economy to become the number one economy on the continent. Participants included the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment and other business executives from Africa, inclunding the CEOs of Africa Finance Corporation and Computer Warehouse Group, and senior executive representatives from PwC and Accenture, part a lot of others.
  • Far East meets East Side: The Big Apple gets to experience Thailand

    UNITED STATES, 2014/09/19 The Far East meets the East Side on Sunday, September 28 as visitors to Manhattan's iconic Madison Square Park will get the appropriate opportunity to experience Amazing Thailand at an all-day, public event full of fun, food, music, dance and much additional. The event is presented by the Royal Thai Consulate in conjunction with the Thai Trade Center, Thailand Board of Investment , Bank of Thailand and the Tourism Authority of Thailand, inclunding Singha and Chang beers, and is designed to help New Yorkers experience the incredible creativity, diversity and opportunity available in the "Land of Smiles." There is no charge for admission at the event, which will run from 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. "Experience Thailand" day will provide the rare opportunity to witness multiple examples of Thai culture and art through colorful demonstrations and entertainment throughout the day, inclunding: