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Global Futures Initiative
The following is excerpted from Secretary Kerry’s welcome remarks at the “Our Ocean” conference on September 19, 2016. Large textual omissions have been noted.
...The sheer power of the ocean, its poignant, incomparable grandeur, is something that humans have felt viscerally from the earliest days. Our awe at the ocean’s life-giving power and its beauty has been captured by our most sacred religious texts, our great philosophies, our art and our literature.
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[But] for literally billions of people around the world, the connection with the ocean is not just emotional, it is also existential. To put it simply, the ocean is essential to all life on Earth. It is responsible for almost 50 percent of the oxygen that we breathe, for the food that we eat, for the climate in which we live, for the employment of hundreds of millions of people around the planet.
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July 22, 2010 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today condemned the Obama administration's decision to resume engagement with Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates meets with Indonesian President H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 22, 2010. DoD photo by Cherie Cullen |
"Slipping back into bed with Kopassus is a betrayal of the brutal unit's many victims in Timor-Leste, West Papua and throughout Indonesia. It will lead to more people to suffer abuses," said John M. Miller, National Coordinator of ETAN. "Working with Kopassus, which remain unrepentant about its long history of terrorizing civilians, will undermine efforts to achieve justice and accountability for human rights crimes in Indonesia and Timor-Leste (East Timor)."
"For years, the U.S. military provided training and other assistance to Kopassus, and when the U.S. was most involved Kopassus crimes were at their worst. While this assistance improved the Indonesian military's deadly skills, it did nothing to improve its behavior," Miller added.
"Engagement with Kopassus would violate the Leahy Law, which prohibits military assistance to units with unresolved hum