Hillary Clinton: Foreign policy requires diplomacy, defense -- and development

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, preparing for the swearing-in of the new U.S. Agency for International Development director, says development should become a pillar of American foreign policy alongside diplomatic and military efforts.

‘Development was once the province of humanitarians, charities,’ Clinton says in excerpts of a speech that she plans to deliver today. ‘Today, it is a strategic, economic and moral imperative -- as central to advancing American interests and solving global problems as diplomacy and defense.’

The State Department is billing Clinton’s address at the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a major policy statement, Bloomberg News reports, with some advance words from the address.

The goal of a safer, more prosperous, democratic and equitable world remains out of reach as long as one- third of the world’s people live in poverty without better prospects, the secretary of State plans to say, emphasizing the importance of ‘accountability, transparency and measurable results’’ in the financing and evaluation of U.S. aid.

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-- Mark Silva