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DHS Advances Support for Tribal Nations, Receives Recommendations from Tribal Leaders Release Date: January 17, 2024 During first in-person meeting of the Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, Tribal leaders from across the country shared perspectives on homeland security policies and practices that affect Tribal Nations and indigenous communities. Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas convened tribal representatives to discuss key challenges facing their communities, including the accessibility of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants, improving cyber resilience, and best practices to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people. Subcommittees of the Tribal Homeland Security Advisory…

Vice President Kamala Harris met today with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in Munich, Germany to discuss Ukraine’s ongoing fight against Russian aggression.  The Vice President emphasized the Administration’s continued efforts to ensure passage of the President’s national security supplemental funding bill, and reaffirmed the strong bipartisan support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the U.S. government and among the American people.  The Vice President welcomed Ukraine’s progress on its path of Euro-Atlantic integration, and encouraged continued work to counter corruption and strengthen Ukraine’s democratic institutions, which will give confidence to investors and enable Ukraine’s rapid recovery and reconstruction…

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: From February 19 to 21, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard Verma met with senior Indian officials in New Delhi to advance the U.S.-Indian global strategic partnership.  His meetings with External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Defense Secretary Giridhar Aramane, and Deputy National Security Advisor Vikram Misri explored opportunities to strengthen U.S.-India cooperation and people-to-people ties to ensure a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.  The Deputy Secretary also met with Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal to discuss further expanding trade…

CommerzbankMunich, Germany 2:07 P.M. CEST VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS:  Good afternoon, everyone. President Zelenskyy, it was my honor to meet with you again.  This is our fifth meeting, by my count.  And our first meeting was here almost exactly two years ago. I want to thank you for all that you have done and all that you are as a leader.  You and I have had many conversations.  And it is my honor to say, as part of a public conversation, that you have been an extraordinarily courageous leader and have shown you commitment to the Ukrainian people and to democratic…

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  Yoko, Tae-yul, welcome.  So good to be with you, with your teams.  Since the Camp David meeting in August with President Biden, President Yoon, and Prime Minister Kishida, our teams have been hard at work – hard at work on trying to realize the vision that our leaders put forward at Camp David.  And that is grounded in our trilateral cooperation. And since that time, we’ve advanced key commitments, including finalizing our trilateral missile data-sharing mechanism and a long-term military exercise plan; holding the first trilateral Indo-Pacific Dialogue; strengthening development cooperation in the Indo-Pacific;…