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You live to the state department for a briefing bisected trey pompeo. Sec. Pompeo im happy to take some questions as well about what we are doing. Tot being said, i wanted come here today to know the state Department Remains fully engaged across the broad range of matters even as we tackle this Global Pandemic. To defendgive so much life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more than we do here in the United States. We are doing that work all over the world. That work continues. Thats what i wanted to share with you today. Lets start with one of our most important topics, terrorism. Today, the department of state is announcing our intent to a specially designated global terrorist. He was previously active in iraq. He was named the leader of isis after we killed abu bock after we killed albaghdadi last year. We remain continued to defeat isis no matter who they designate as their leader. Continuing on designations and our leadership, the department is sanctioning nine entities based in
International 1st then the e. U. Has closed its external borders for the next 30 days Germanys Angela Merkel announced the measure which is one of the most drastic so far in tackling the coronavirus. We have introduced entry restrictions basically an entry ban for citizens from non e. U. Countries it will last for 30 days in germany it applies immediately belgium is the latest country to join those declaring a nationwide quarantine spain italy and france are also in lockdown military trucks have been filmed on the streets of paris r. T. Shah to do basically looks at whether the era of Free Movement could be coming to an amicable. For years populists have been advocating tighter border controls within the European Union which you and the National Governments have criticised yet in 2020 that is exactly what were seeing happening it all started with italy and border controls being imposed from people trying to leave it to lead to go into austria but since then a host of other e. U. Countr
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize