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He is going to talk about some of the achievements that he has done while in office, and he is going to discuss some of the things that may or may not happen, and why it is more important than ever for unity among the US and its and it's real allies and friends to stick together through this time

with a new administration change. He he discussed how he ended the war in Afghanistan and against what critics thought was a bad idea, and he knew that his job was to actually bring the troops back home and bring

peace to those families who had loved ones overseas. He also discussed some of the things between put President Putin and President Zolensky with the Ukraine and the aggressive maneuvers that Vladimir Putin took in order to gain control of the Ukraine, which the Ukraine is still not under Putin's control as matter of fact, in a lot of respects, President's Olenski moved forward into advancing the Ukraine's position into

a better place of strength. And mister Biden says that that may or may have happened with or without the United States. Not all things happen because the US deemed him so, he will he fully admitted to that. Okay, So it looks like a Lemanon has elected a a new government, and we look forward to seeing what actually happens with that. We will try to connect with in the in the next week's days or weeks with our connections in that region to find out, Hey, what is

really happening. Is is it going to be more of the same old, same old, or is it gonna is there going to be something new and more humanitarian like in that in that region.

So and we'll also hear about how the Secretary General is going to traveling to Lebanon to speak with the new government and hopefully develop a line of peace between all parties in that region. So we're going to in the next few days. We're going to also be hearing more from Donald Trump as he will be inaugurated, and I believe it's next week his inauguration will be and

he will be taking office. His administration is full on saying that they're going to impose many towers against many different countries in order to control the trade of products as per they Make America Great Again platform, where I'm not exactly sure what will happen with the United Nations under the Trump administration. We're also not sure what will happen with things like the Pirates agreements, climate control, the

control of fossil fuels and carbon into the atmosphere. We're not sure what's going to happen with those things because many of the Trump supporters and his staff do not believe it is a real thing to quote mister Biden that you will hear in a few seconds. They are dead wrong. So a lot of changes are gonna happen in the next few days between the United States and Canada.

The Canadian Liberal government leadership role is still under underway as a few people have tossed in their hats and some have removed their hats, so it's still up grabs who who will be the next Liberal party leader going into the election that should be happening this fall. So while we move forward, we were gonna start listening to the United Nations and then we will hear from mister Biden and uh and and other other stories.

with the Lebanese political leadership and others. The Secretary General is also expected to travel to southern Lebanon to to see the UN peacekeeping Force and express his support and his thanks for the work they've been doing in very challenging circumstances. We will update you with more details as we get them. Turning to Haiti, Yesterday, January twelfth mark fifteen years since a devastating earthquake claimed the lives of

hundreds of thousands of people. The Secretary General remembers the victims of the earthquake and continues to honor their legacy through the United Nations work in the country. He also paid tribute to the one hundred and two colleagues of our own colleagues who died on that day, including the head of the mission at the time, mister Henny Annabe, and one of our dear colleagues who used to work on the document's counter, Alexandra Duguey, who was remembered for

her bright smile and efficient work. And we worn with their families the memory of their passing an estimated three million people. As you know, we're impacted by the earthquake, which led to severe humanitarian protection, health and displacement and infrastructure challenges for Haiti, some of which are still present today. Yesterday in Haiti, the United Nations held a ceremony i Port of Prince in honor of the victims of the

earthquake and our colleagues. In a statement, the head of the Political Office in Haiti, Marie is Abel Salvador, express of solidarity with all those whose lives continue to be impacted by the tragedy. She also saluted the determination and resilience of the Haitian people who responded with courage to the aftermath of the earthquake, and she also, of course reaffirmed our own commitment to continue working alongside Haitian authorities and people to build a better future for the country.

And just to remind you there will be that there is a memorial of our colleagues in the garden here which used to be in Port of Prince, but it is now in the garden.

causing civilian casualties. He also visited an underground school built in just six months, which will educate one thousand children every day. Also yesterday, mister Fletcher was in Dnipro where he visited a collective site for displaced people. Today, he traveled to the front lines of the Donets region, where he commended the work of the local first responders at NGOs.

Mister Fletcher saw how communities remaining in the areas are supported by aid organizations and how evacuees receive assistance to a transit center. At a transit center in the city of Pavlarad, which is also which is in Denipro. Mister

Fletcher also visited Kharkiev. Will excuse me Tomorrow he will visit Kharkiv and on Thursday, he and the head of the UN Refugee Agency, Felipo Grandi will launch this year's humanitarian and refugee response plan for Ukraine in the region, Mister Fletcher and mister Grandi will jointly speak to the press to the press from Kiev just before the plan is launched and our special end for for yemen haunts.

Grunberg included a visit today to Tehran where he met with the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi along with other senior Iranian officials. Discussions focused on the resumption of a Yemeny owned political process under the auspices of the United Nations. Mister Gloomberg expressed his serious concern over the broader regional escalation involving Yemen and its adverse impact on the mediation environment. He underlined the importance of the immediate de escalation for

the benefit of the Yemeny people. In all his meetings, the Envoid briefed on our efforts for the immediate and unconditional release of the arbitrarily detained staff from the United Nations, NGOs, diplomatic missions and civil society which remained detained by Ansarala.

He requested Iran's support towards the efforts to have them released and our other Special endvoy in that is mister Pettison, the Envoy for six Are attended the Riad meetings on Syria over the weekend and welcomed the strong support express for the Syrian people and the commitment to assisting caretaker

authorities during this critical phase. Mister Peterson held constructive meetings with Syria's caretaker minute Foreign Minister Assad Al Shabani, and they focused on advancing an inclusive Syrian led political transition and addressing the challengers that Syria faces following the fall

of the assad regime. The discussions in Saudi Arabia underscore the importance of a credible, inclusive transition led by Syrians, backed by genuine international support to help Syria navigate the transition peacefully and to help.

been functional functioning now for thirty five days. More than four hundred and three thousand people living in the cities of Menbij and Kobani continue lack access to water. Derizoor most of the villages in the eastern countryside of facing drinking water shortages due to the insufficient number of functioning water stations. Despite these challenges, we and our partners are continuing to support the humanitarian response, of course, as security

and logistics permit moving to Gaza. As the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues, our colleagues at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is once again calling on the Israeli authorities to enable the delivery of life saving assistance to people across the Strip, and that assistance needs to We're doing our best to deliver it safely, swiftly, and at scale. OCHA reports that Israeli authorities continued to deny

un led efforts to reach Palestinians with vital aid throughout Gaza. Yesterday, only seven of the twenty two un planned humanitarian movements were facilitated by Israeli authorities, six were denied outrights, five were impeded, and four were canceled due to security and logistical challenges. Meanwhile, OACHA warns that the ongoing hostilities and evacuation orders continued to display civilians across the Gaza Strip. We stress once again that civilians must be protected, whether

they leave or stay. Those fleeing fighting must be allowed to do so safely, and they must be able to voluntarily return when the situation allows. In central Gaza, yesterday, the Israeli military issued a new evacuation order for residents of an Nusrat in the Al Mufti neighborhood. Our partners estimate that some four thy one hundred people are affected

by the latest directive. The area under evacuation includes residents living in and around two displacement sites managed by Uno and also includes three medical points and two water delivery

points and two temporary learning spaces. Our partners of observed limited number of people moving from the area under evacuation towards Nusrat and other parts of darrel Bala displace people across the Gaza Strip continue to report to US critical shortages of food, critical shortages of water, and critical shortage of sanitation facilities. That's what the new survey of nearly two thousand, five hundred households across the Gaza Strip shows US.

More than two thirds of those households told our humanitarian partners that they had been displaced at least once over the last sixty days. Yesterday, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian Territory, Muhammad mahanad Hadi, visited a church hosting more than four hundred Palestinians in Gaza City. He once again stressed the need to protect places of refuge and

to end this war. Today in southern Gaza, he visited a factory providing furniture to temporary learning spaces in the strip. After fifteen months of war, less than a fifth of school aged children in Gaza have access to some form of learning and just a flag. At three pm this afternoon, our Secretary General will speak at the ceremony in which the leadership of the G seventy seven in China passes

from Uganda to Iraq. The Secretary will congratulate Iraq, a founding member of the G seventy seven sixty years ago, for its assumption to the chairmanship for twenty twenty five. In his remarks this afternoon, he will welcome the G seventy seven's focus on accelerating support for developing countries, especially as we approach the deadline for the twenty thirty agenda. He will say that twenty twenty five must be a

year of keeping promises to developing countries. A quick update from Southeast Africa, where humanitarian colleagues continue to track the impact of tropical Storm Dikileti in northern Madagascar. We're working with authorities to mobilize response after the cyclone made landfall on Saturday. According to reports, over two hundred people were directly impacted. Nearly thirteen hundred homes were flooded, with five

health centers damaged. Our partners are also distributing water treatment supplies as well as water sanitation and hygiene kits and in Mozambique, the cyclone is bringing heavy rains strong winds northern part of the country. That's the same area hit by Cyclone Cheeto less than a month ago. As of Saturday, the World Food Program it also reached more than one hundred and ninety thousand people in five districts with one

week's worth of food rations. For its part, UNHR and its partners have distributed more than eight hundred kits of relief items for four thousand people. UNHR has also stepped up its efforts to assess protection concerns in parts of

Cabo Delgado would displace people sheltering. We are aiming to provide assistance to more than four hundred thousand people impacted by the cyclone, but to do that we urginally need more funding and UNICEF today release released a report warning that the world is facing a new and intensifying era of crisis for children, and many of these crises, including

climate change, conflict, and economic instability, are closely interconnected. According to the report, showing that the percentage of children impacted by conflict has almost doubled to almost nineteen percent today from around ten percent in the nineteen nineties, UNISEF notes at over four and seventy three million children more than one in six globally lived in areas affected by conflict in twenty twenty three, a number that is likely to have risen this year. The report is online. We got

money today. One more country from the on roll. Latest country to pay its dues is where the first postage stamps were introduced in the early nineteenth century, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And we thank our friends in London for having paid their dues for making it on the Honor Roll, the first permanent member to do so. For your information, Sir Roland Hill, a school teacher, is reporting to have invented the postage stamp

in eighteen thirty seven. We now have seven members on the honorall Sylvian today.

things before it's filled with good things. But the other thing you told, mister President, was that there's a greater premium than ever before on finding ways to cooperate, to coordinate, to work with other countries if we're going to get done what we need to get done for the American people.

And so you instructed me, you instructed all of us to get out there, to rebuild, to rejuvenate, even to reimagine our alliances in partnerships, and I remember what you told me then you said, we don't know when this is going to make a difference, when we're going to need these friendships, these partnerships, but someday, some way, somewhere, they're going to be critical for advancing the national interest. And that's exactly what the men and women of this

department have done. And we've been able to carry out that charge for two reasons. First, the people you see before you and so many others who are out in the field or embassies and consulates. You said when you came here four years ago that the leadership of diplomats of every stripe doing the daily work of government is essential,

and they proved it. That daily work has become nightly work, twenty four to seven, seven days a week, hammering out agreements, jumping into action in crisis, creating opportunities for our citizens around the world, producing.

and so on. All of these partnerships that we built and built with their teams have made a difference. So to all of my colleagues, thank you. Thank you for your friendship, thank you for your partnership. There's one other reason that we've been able to re engage and rejuvenate

our diplomacy, mister President, that's you. You have never wavered in the conviction that when America leads, when American engages, there is little we cannot accomplish, and that this country remains a force for good, a force for progress around the world. Your unshakable belief in the promise of America has inspired me for more than twenty years. It's inspired so many people in this department and around the world.

Simply put, it's been the privilege of my lifetime to work for you, to work with you, to work with this extraordinary team that you've assembled, and it's the honor of a lifetime to be able to introduce one more time the forty sixth President of the United States, Joe Biden.

I know. Appreciate it, folks. I'm grateful for his counsel and his friendship as well, but also want to thank the members of my cabinet and the members of the congres are here today, and to all all our diplomats and development experts, service members and intelligence professionals. Many of the achievements we're going to discuss today we're the result of your hard work. And that's not hyperble, it's true. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for extraordinary service.

Now I come here to the State Department report on to the American people on the progress we've made in the last four years and our foreign policy and our presidency. I've said many times we're at an inflection point. The post Cold War period is over. A new error has begun in these four years, we face crises that we've been tested. We've come through those tests stronger in my view,

than we entered those tests. This is a fierce competition underway the future of the global economy, technology, human values, and so much else. Right now, in my view, thanks to our administration, the United States is winning the worldwide competition. Compared to four years ago, America is stronger, Our alliances are stronger, Our adversaries and competitors are weaker. We have not gone to war to make these things happen. During

my presidency, have increased America's power every dimension. We've increased our diplomatic power, creating more allies the United States has ever had in the history of our nation. We've increased our military power, making the most significant investments in the defense industrial base in decades. We've increased the technology power, taking the lead and artificial intelligence and other technologies in

the future. And we've increased the economic power, building the most dynamic economy in the world from the bottom up, the middle out, not the top down. In short, Common and Line took office, our nation had become stronger at home or stronger in the world. And now America is more capable and I would argue better prepared than we've been in a long long time. While our competitors and adversaries are facing stiff headwinds, we have the wind that

are back because of all of you. This is what we're heading into and over the next administration, that's what we're handing it to. Today, I want to lay out what we've done, the opportunities we've created for America, and those opportunities going forward. Today I can report to the American people our sources of national power are far stronger than we were than we took office. Our economy is booming,

although there's more work to do. Our technologies, artificers and tells us the biotech quantum, and to advance semiconductors through the envy of the world. And we have made the most significant investments in America and the American workers since the New Deal, to rebuild our roads and bridges, our ports and airports, clean water systems, affordable high speeding, and so much more. To build American manufacturing, to make advanced semiconductors,

which we invented here at home. We made the large investment in climbing and clean energy ever anywhere on Earth in the history of the world, spurring nearly five hundred billion dollars in private sector investment. We've also significantly strengthened the defense industrial base, investing almost one point three trillion dollars for cument and research and development in real dollars. That's more than America did in any four year period

during the Cold War. This is going to ensure that we're fully equipped to fight and win wars, which is also the best way to deter wars in the first place. Today I can report to the American people our alliances are stronger than they've been in decade. NATO is more capable than it's ever been, and many more of our allis are paying their fair share. Before I took office, nine NATO allies are spending two percent of their GDP on defense. Now twenty three are spending two percent. And

look at the end of Pacific. We made partnership stronger and created new partnerships to challenge China's aggressive behavior and to rebalance power in the region. We did it what Fuge thought was possible to build. The first ever try it out our partnership between the United States, Japan and South Korea. Then another among the United States, Japan and the Philippines, Drawing close to our Pacific allies to defend

our shared security and prosperity. We broke into Defense Pact known as August among the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, connecting the Lantic and Pacific allies as only America is able to do. I've taken a quad to the next level the United States, Japan, Austria, Australia, and India. When we had that first meeting, and I was dumbfounded when they all called and said, can we do this at your house? I think I'm kidding. My wife said,

no problem. It was during the UN meeting and we thought we were going to do it in New York, but they wanted to do it in Delaware. I said, why, said we can. Then people will know we're really friends. Our democracy with vibrant economies working closely, security supply, chained technology,

and so much more. In the Red Sea, we brought together more than twenty countries to protect civilian to protect civilian ships from attack by the Huthis, defending freedom of navigation one of the world's busiest waterways, and we have strengthened partnerships all across the Americas defending democracy and targeting corruption, addressing migration, increasing prosperity, and protecting Amazon rainforest, which captures billions of tons billions of tons of carving from the

atmosphere every year. Overall, we've reinvigorated people's faith in the United States as a true partner. Today, I can report to the American people our adversaries are weaker than where we came into the top four years ago. Just consider Russia. When Putin invaded Ukraine, he thought he'd conquer Kiev in a matter of days. But the truth is, since that war began, I'm the only one that stood in the center of Kiev, not him. Putin never had think about it.

There was a long train ride. I'm the only commander in chiefs to visit the war zone not controlled by US forces. We helped Ukrainians stop Putin, and now, nearly three years later, Putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. He has failed thus far to subjugate Ukraine, failed to break the unity of NATO, and failed to make large territorial gains. There's more to do. We can't

walk away. We rallied fifty nations to stand with Ukraine, not just in Europe, but the first for the first time in Asia as well. Those country in Asia know what happened in Ukraine matters to them as well. We delivered air interceptors, massive numbers of munitions, enacted relentless, unprecedented sanctions to keep Ukraine in the fight. And now Russia is struggling to replace what they are losing on the battlefield in terms of military equipment and fighters, and the

Ruble is under enormous pressure. As I saw it, when Putin launched his evasion, I had two jobs. One to rally the world to defend Ukraine and the other is to avoid war between two nuclear powers. We did both those things. Today Ukraine is still free, independent country with the potential, the potential for a bright future, and we laid the foundation for the next administration so they can protect the right future of the Ukrainian people. And now

look at Iran. Did you ever think we'd be where we are with the RAND at this moment After those despicable attacks by Hamas on October the seventh, Ran directly attacked us OR twice with hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, and twice they failed because the United States organized coalition of countries to stop them, and ordered US aircraft to

come to the defense of Israel. Now Iran's air defenses are in shambles, the main proxy, Hesbalah, is badly wounded, and as we tested the rands willingness to revive the nuclear deal, we kept the pressure with sanctions. Now RAN's economies and desperate straits all told, Iran is weaker than it has been in decades, and we want more evidence if it was seriously weakened the RAN in Russia. Just

take a look at Syria President of Sa'ad. With both countries' closest ally in the Middle East, neither neither could keep him in power. Neither really tried very hard. Now I cannot came credit for every factor that led to RAND and Russia growing weaker in the past four years. They did plenty of damage all by themselves, But Israel did plenty of damage to Iran and its proxies. But

there's no question our actions contributed significantly. And now major authoritarian states are aligning more closely with one another Ran, Russia, China, North Korea. But that's more out of weakness than out of strength. So as the new administration begans. The United States is in a fundamentally stronger position with respect to

these countries than we were four years ago. Today, I can report to the American people we're in a better strategic position in the long term competition with China than we were when I took office. You all recall and the experts believer predicting it was inevitable that China's economy would surpass ours. According to many predictions, that would happen

by the year twenty thirty or shortly thereafter. But we in this room said no, If we make the investments in ourselves, we protect our workers and technologies, that will not happen now. According to the Lady's predictions on China's current course, they will never surpass us period. I met one on one with President she in consequential summits. He and I have always been directing, straightforward with each other.

I made it clear we expect China and everyone to abide by the international rules, and so we stood up against unfair trade practices, taking action with China dump subsidized goods incredibly subsidized on our markets to undercut our workers. We impose target tires and critical sectors like cars, steel

and semiconductors rather than across the board TIFFs. We impose historic export controls on investments, restrictions to ensure that China cannot cannot use the most advanced technology and census data and sensitive data against us. And critically, we listed our allies and partners that join us, building more convergence among our allies on a shared approach to China than ever existed, and showing that it's more effective to deal with China

alongside of partners rather than going to the loan. But even while we compete vigorously, we've managed our relationship with China responsibly so it's never tipped over into conflict. We've created lines of communication between President she and myself and

between the leaders of our militaries to avoid misunderstanding. We found ways to work with each other to address climate change, to reduce the flow of fendanol in the United States, which, by the way, O overdose deaths are coming down across our nation, and in my administration, we've seized more fentanyl of our border in two years than the previous five years combined. Today that can also report to the American people for the first president in decades who's not leaving

a war in Afghanistan to his successor. But we've got bin Laden. During the Obama Biden administration, the primary objective of war had been accomplished. And I believe that going forward, the primary threat of O. Kaita would no longer be emanating from Afghanistan, but from elsewhere, and so we not need the station's sizeable number of American forces in Afghanistan. So when I took office, I had a choice. Only I saw no reason to keep thousands of servicemen in Afghanistan.

I think, I have my schedule with me, and I keep on I don't hear, I don't, but I keep on the back of my card the actual number of dead and wounded with the curred nor the longest war to remind myself. Keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars a day. We're no longer doing that. And my view was time to end the war and bring our troops home, and we did. I command the courage of all those

that serve in Afghanistan. We grieve all two four and sixty one Americans who made the element sacrifice of the longest war in American history. And I grieve those brave service members of the lives of loss during the withdrawal. We also thank those inside and outside of government. I've done so much till thousands of Afghan families resettled in

the United States. Remember, critics said if we ended the war, it would damage our alliances and create threats to our homeland from foreign director to terrorism out of a safe haven in Afghanistan. Neither has accurred. Neither has occurred, and our alliance have stayed strong. We've used over the rising capabilities as traking Afghanistan and elsewhere when we had to, for instance, eliminating Zawahiri, the leader of a Kaida wolp Orcher state in September eleventh attacks, and we did it

without putting more American boots on the ground. And by ending the war, we've been able to focus our energy and resources on more urgent challenges. There is nothing I can tell you of my conversation about SI and putin nothing our adversars and competitors like crushing China would have liked more than seeing us to continue to be tied

down in Afghanistan for another decade. For all those reasons, ending the war was the right thing to do, and I believe history will reflect that, and from the moment land at office, I also worked to free as many Americans as possible being held hostage, wrongfully detained overseas. We brought home more than seventy five Americans by last count.

In some cases it took months, even years of effort, like the prisoner swap with Russia over the past summer, feet of diplomacy, involving all many of you, and involving multible countries who joined complex negotiations at our request. Another example of the power of our alliances. We did not have these relationship, those women and women would likely still be in prison. And finally I can report to the American people we restored our leadership in a range of

other generational priorities. When I took office, we were no longer part of them National Climate Agreement. We announced on day one that we were joined. The Paris A Court rejoined, and we've led by example. We've conserved hundreds of millions of acres, hundreds of millions of acres of land and water, more than any president of American history, making investments in clean energy, and conventions of other nations to join us.

Thanks to our efforts, the world has reached the goal of investing one hundred billion dollars every year in public and private funds to reduce greenhouse emissions, to drive down the cost of clean energy, to help developing nations adapt to climate change, our administration has launched a transformative initiative to build high impact infrastructure to developing nations. It's called PGI.

You a will know that better than anyone. This is our alternative to what China offers with this massive projects across African beyond. But their approach features no workers' rights, no environmental protections, unmanageable debt, shoddy construction, all in exchange for military access to ports and other exploited purposes. By contrast, we've leveraged six hundred billion dollars or at least the private sector to build an infrastructure in order to grow

economies and combat climate change. As an example, I was recently in the Angola to see a major project being built up of American public funding was brought to even more private investment. We're building the first ever transcontinental railroad across Africa. Will significantly improve the economies of the region, will help farmers transport crops, and new global markets. Will transport, critical minerals that wouldn't need need for electric vehicles and semiconductors.

Trying to use to control the supply change in these materials, but not for long. I'll make no mistake. There's serious challenges the United States must continue to deal with in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and the inn Pacific. Must keep the pressure on the Houthis who are attacking ships on the Red Sea, launching missiles in Israel, and firing in American forces must have turned North Korea as they rattle their saber and draw closer to Russia, and new challenges

will certainly emerge in the months and years ahead. Even but even so, it's clear my administration is leaving the next administration with a very strong hand to play, and we're leaving them and America more friends than strong alliances whose advisers are weaker and under pressure. Once again is leading, uniting countries, setting the agenda, bringing others together behind our

plans and visions. In America, which is no longer war, which has made historic investments in American workers, American energies, and American factories, generating the strongest economy in the world, which is now in a much better position to win the future against any competitor. These wines are not partisan, They're American. They benefit all Americans and reflect the America's

endless capacity for leadership and reinvention. Look, folks, the United States should take full advantage of our diplomatic and geopolitical opportunities we've created to keep bringing countries together, to deal with challenges posed by China, to make sure war Putin's war d the adjusted, the lasting peace for Ukraine, and to capitalize on a new moment for more stable, integrated Middle East. To do that, the next administration must make sure the fall of Asad does not lead to the

research and vicens in Syria across the region. I must carry forward the commitment and America will never never allow Ran to acquire a nuclear weapon and the war between Israel and Amas. We're in the brink for proposal that I laid out in detail months ago, finally coming to fruition. I have learned in many years of public service to never, never, never ever give up. So I spoke to Prime Minister Visual yesterday, I spoke to the mirror cutter today, and

I look forward as speaking with President Cci soon. We're pressing hard to close this the deal we have a structure would free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security in Israel, and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians who've suffered terribly in this war that Hamas started. They've been through hell, So many innocent people

have been killed, so many communities have been destroyed. The Palestinian people deserve peace and the right to determine their own futures. Is are deserves peace and real security, and the hostages and their families deserve to be reunited. And so we're working urgently to close this deal. And as deal with media challenges of view, we have to look future. I urge an ext administration to carry forward to isch that have been central to my presidency and which shape

the future. My view. On artificial intelligence, we are the lead. I must stay in the lead. We must not offshore artificial intelligence as he once did with computer chips and other critical technologies. AI has the power to re reshape economies, governments, nazal security, entire societies. And there must be the United States and our closest allies that lead the way ensure

people's rights are respected. Their safety is protected and their data is secured, and likewise, clean energy transition will raise ahead years to come. I know and some incomeing administration, some in the incoming administration, are skeptical about the need for clean energy. They don't even believe climate chain is real. I think they come from a different century. They're wrong,

They are dead wrong. It's the single greatest existential threat to humanity, and the clean energy transition is already happening. China is trying to dominate the clean energy manufacturing critical materials supply chains. They want to capture the market in the future and create new dependencies. The United States must win that contest, and we will shape the global economy for decades to come. Let me close to this, Like many of you, have dedicated a significant portion of my

career to our nation's foreign policy. The chair of the Foreign Relations Committee as a senator, the Vice president of for eight years, and now President of the United States are put together, they're one of the most competent foreign policy teams. I would argue in American history, sitting in this room before my eyes, throughout my career, the world has gone undergone tremendous change, but certain things have always

held true. At our best, America leads not only by the example of our power, but the power of our example. In the past four years, we've used that power not to go alone, but instead to bring countries together to increase shared security and prosperity, to stand up to aggression, to solve problems through diplomacy wherever possible, and to redolentlessly defend democracy, civil rights, and human rights. Because that's who we are. That's who we are. You heard me say

it many times. Be We're the only country on Earth founded an idea. Every other country is founded on geography, religion, ethnicity, or some other unifying factor. But America was built an idea on an idea, literally, not figuratively. That idea was all women, men who are created equal, the idea that has inspired the world for two hundred and fifty years in counting. We're always reaching to do better, always looking into the future, not our best, always seeking progress for

our people and for people everywhere. It spend the honor of my life to serve as your president today. I'm optimistic about our future, as optimistic as I've ever been. Just have to remember who in the hell we are heard me says many time, were the United States of America. For God's sake, there is nothing, nothing, nothing beyond like a if we do it together and commit to it, nothing, So thank you all for all you've done. I hope many of you are going to be stayed in the

next administration to keep this moving. May God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you, Thank you.

harms of stuff. This work is vital. A couple of years ago, I met a young person, a young man here in our program, who was sixteen years old living in Canada, the pretty standard typical experience of any young person in Canada, got an injury playing hockey, and as part of that injury, the recovery plan included surgery and physiotherapy and painkillers, and as he was taking painkillers, he

became addicted. And when that addiction took over the medical care that he was receiving, they obviously tried to intervene and to help that youth transition out of that care, but it didn't work, and he sought illicit sources to fuel his addiction. That spiraled for that young person into a life that included being street involved and experiencing homelessness in our community.

learn from the original stewards of this land. They have lived on this land for a very long time, and as we build our lives on this land, we have a lot to learn from Indigenous people, from their history, from their culture, from the traditions, and be better stewards of this land. And that's for me why I always start my remarks with that acknowledgement as a reminder to myself. AM always grateful to come and visit Operation Come Home.

This is one of my many trips here and always enjoy coming here to see some incredible people, some of them are here, and thank you for taking time from your busy schedule for the good work that you do with youth in our community. This is an incredible secret gem, hidden gem in in center town in terms of the work that you do every single day in creating new opportunities for our youth in the community. Right behind these flags is actually a school where young people get their

high school education at their own pace. It's a partnership with I believe, with both Autoa Culton and Autoa Catholic school Boards, if am I correct, And it's amazing to see some young people being here if you come in the middle of the day doing their homework and really sort of working hard to rebuild these lives. This is the kind of stuff that Operation Come Home does. We're in the middle of January now, and we know whether

it has been has been really cold. This time more than ever, highlights the needs for the kind of things that we're talking about today to ensure that we're doing everything in our capacity to avoid homelessness, especially for young people, to create opportunity for them to have a warm, safe place to live. Just a week ago, somebody passed away tragically down the street from here. They were found not well, not alive, in a very cold winter night. That should

not happen in our society. That should not happen in the capital city of Canada. We have to do everything possible to ensure that they are supports necessary for members of our community, for whatever reason, find themselves at a place where they have to find shelter on the street. And that's why I'm really thankful for the hard and

incredible work that Operation Come Home does. Government of Canada have a long lasting relationship with Operation Come Home, providing them support so that they can continue to prevent homelessness to create opportunities for young people. And that's why I'm very pleased to announce that we are investing more than one point three million dollars in federal funding to Operation

Come Home. This funding will support youth age sixteen to twenty five in Ottawa who are street involved or experiencing homelessness and who are at risk of substance use harms. This program is led by Peers that will deliver information, resources, and harm reduction and cessasions supports to our youth first aid and overdose response training, ongoing and regular access to

peer social supports, group session participation and counseling services. This project will work closely with hospital and other treatment center programs to ensure that youth leaving these programs have the supports they need. The key thing about this program and this funding is that is peer led is led by youth. These services are provided by youth who have experienced substance abuse, who have experienced homelessness. They are able to speak to

these youth as peers. They are trauma informed, they have led lived with those same experience so that you can create those meaningful relationships and find supports. John and the team tells me that those peer workers are out there on the streets right now in Centertown providing these important supports. Program is about saving lives. It is about making sure that the most basic need that's required is there and

the support. This is about enhancing public and community safety, to make sure that those who live in the community who want to make sure that everybody is looked after, is looked after and that allows for our businesses, local business to thrive and residents to live in safety as well. That is the work that we are doing. I am thankful to operation come home to do this very important but difficult work, especially at this time of the year.

It's an honor for me to be to learn from them, to be in partnership with them, and I'm really thankful to govern Enough Canada to make this important funding available so that we can provide real supports as they are needed in our community every single day. Once again, thank you very much for being here, and thank you to

all of you for the work that you do. And please extend my gratitude to all the peers who are out there, the caseworkers on the streets providing these important services in some really difficult circumstances.

here at Operation Come Home are. I also get to work with some people we talked about here in the building my calling. Katie Price is the coordinator of the program and is here to able, is here to offer a couple of extra words about it. So welcome Katie, It's reidjest.

sorry for peer support case managers and a counselor. For the youth engaging in this program, they will be matched with a peer support case manager who will meet them where they are at and will work with them from a harm reduction perspective. In addition, any individual accessing this program will have the option of working with a counselor who will work in a collaborative manitor with the youth in order to reach their goals. This work is very

needed in our city. I'm sure most of you have witnessed the difficulties our city and community members have been facing lately. We may often pass people on the street who may be living in a tent or asking for money, and it is so easy to look away. But that young woman that you just walk by is someone's daughter, sister, friend. She has graduated from post secondary. She is looking for work and housing while living on o W and living in a shelter. She loves working with animals and has

goals for a future career. And if you are in a privileged position like me and the people here at o H, you get to witness her secure hosing, have a child, work a full time job, and overcome her substance use disorder. It's these stories that we miss when we look the other way. These are the stories we

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