Name: 部門新聞發佈會--2018年8月9日 (Department Press Briefing - August 9, 2018)
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And why are so many of you showing up on an August afternoon?

You're supposed to all be on vacation or something, but I notice a few empty seats.

A couple announcements to start before we get started with your questions today.

First, I would like to express our condolences to the victims of the recent earthquakes and

The United States has experts and partner organizations on the ground.

We're consulting with the Government of Indonesia at this time.

We're closely monitoring the situation, and we stand ready to provide additional aid

Our U.S. consulate personnel are assisting affected U.S. citizens.

At this time, we do not have any reports of U.S. citizen casualties associated with the

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Indonesian people.

As many of you know, we were recently on the ground in Indonesia and had some terrific

meetings with government officials there.

Next, I have some staffing news to bring you now.

And I'm really excited about this one, because it affects our Bureau of Public Affairs and

specifically the folks that you will working with.

Today I'd like to announce that Robert Palladino will be joining our press team as the State

Robert is a career Foreign Service officer and I believe known well to some of you or

Over the past year, Robert has served as director of press and acting National Security Council

In that role he's helped to prepare Sarah Sanders for her briefings at the White House.

He was also a spokesperson to the White House press corps and worked as NSC communications

Robert's Foreign Service career has included postings in Washington, where he worked for

our Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Office of the Under Secretary for

Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy, and also on Capitol Hill.

Overseas, he's worked in Milan, Italy; Guangzhou, China; and also Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Prior to joining the State Department, he practiced law in Asia and Europe in the Army

His service included deployment to Rwanda.

He is a graduate of Notre Dame University, Washington and Lee School of Law, the U.S.

Army War College, and he also speaks Chinese and Italian.

We are delighted that he is coming back to the State Department from the White House.

For those of you who have not met him, he is a terrific guy.

We've worked closely together for the past year or so.

I asked him what his children thought, because he has two young girls – I asked him what

they thought of his job, and I love these quotes.

His youngest daughter said, “I'm proud of America and I'm proud of you, Dad, but

And then his older daughter said this – and you'll appreciate it – “But wait a minute,

everybody yells questions and they're angry.

That actually might be the White House press corps, not you all.

But we look forward to welcoming Robert when he joins us on the 20th of August.

But try not to bug him between now and then; he's on vacation with his family.

With that, I'd be happy to take your questions.

I just wanted to ask you briefly before I ask you about Yemen.

I noticed the statement that you guys put out about Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe elections

and the Zambian decision to deport the opposition leader.

QUESTION: And in that statement it said that you are reviewing certain aspects of your

MS NAUERT: Some of those will be conversations that will be had privately with both governments.

But my understanding is that there are certain agreements in which that government was taking

steps that the Zimbabweans weren't completely familiar with and weren't supportive of,

and there were some concerns related to that.

QUESTION: No, I understand, but I was just --

MS NAUERT: But let's just back up a couple steps for folks who've not been following

Elections on July the 30th – those were promising, very promising.

We thought it was a historic chance to sort of move beyond the political and economic

crises of the past and toward a more democratic change and better dialogue in that country.

People turned out massively in those elections.

We put out a statement just after those elections complimenting them on those elections.

However, the success in delivering an election day that was peaceful and open to international

observers was then marred by violence, which we've been seeing and has been heavily reported,

at least in the international press, over the past about week and a half.

We've seen a disproportionate use of deadly force against protestors by the security forces,

We're concerned by those numerous reports of human rights violations since the elections

had taken place about a week and a half or two ago.

We have received credible allegations of detentions, of beatings, and other abuses of the people

of Zimbabwe, particularly targeting opposition activists.

Now, the latest news today is the foreign – excuse me, the former minister of finance

Zambia returned him to Zimbabwe, we understand.

And some of this is still fresh so we don't have all the details at this point.

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