Marc Knapper

Thank you, Amb. Knapper, for this joint visit to clearance site in Quang Tri province. Thanks to @PeaceTreesVN for your excellent work, helping clear UXO/ERW to bring safety back to this war-ravaged land. Addressing war legacy is foundational for advancement of 🇻🇳 - 🇺🇸 CSP.

This World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, let's renew our commitment to #EndHumanTrafficking! We would like to share recent efforts to support #Vietnam in combating human trafficking. 🙏 a special thanks to 🇺🇸 @StateINL for your invaluable support!

It’s the 10th World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The theme: ‘leave no child behind’. 👧🏻 This year 🇦🇺 is • appointing our first Anti-Slavery Commissioner • continuing to co-lead the Bali Process • supporting @ASEAN anti-trafficking. Check this video by me & my friends:

55 years ago #OTD, the crew of #Apollo11 safely landed on the Moon, turning the stuff of science fiction into reality. Here's a visualization of where they landed, using data from our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Moving towards a stronger future together! During the Regional Ambassadors Conference, I had the honor of hosting CDA Michael Klein, AMB Marc Knapper, @USAmbNepal, and @USAmbCambodia at the @USARPAC HQ to discuss how we can - together - uphold a #FreeandOpenIndoPacific! #ArmyinthePacific @USArmy @USARPAC @INDOPACOM

"Here in America, let us not forget who we are. We reject all forms of hate, whether it’s against Muslims, Jews, or anyone. That’s what great nations do—and we are a great nation." — @POTUS

Civilians are not to blame and should not suffer for Hamas’s horrific terrorism. Civilian lives must be protected and assistance must urgently reach those in need.

"No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise in logic from the Twilight Zone." ~Rod Serling "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"

Air Commodore Tony McCormack and Ambassador Marc Knapper last served together in Seoul, Korea. #DefenceDiplomacy has a way of bringing people together. 🇦🇺 🇺🇸

In remembrance of the lives lost on September 11, 2001 at Ground Zero in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We will never forget.

It was great to speak with you, General Secretary. As I said earlier, Vietnam and the United States have an enormous opportunity to be critical partners. I know we can achieve the aspiration both countries share for a future of greater peace, security, and prosperity.

Thank you for the warm welcome, Vietnam. I know this will be a historic visit.

Since the United States and Vietnam launched our Comprehensive Partnership ten years ago, our relationship has grown stronger. We're cooperating on priorities like inclusive economic prosperity, combatting climate change, a secure and open Indo-Pacific, and people-to-people ties.

Thank you @ausambvn!

“Peace through strength” - motto, USS Ronald Reagan 🇻🇳🇺🇸

Thank you Ambassador Cho (@RokEmbDC) for your friendship and commitment to the #ROKUS Alliance!

Welcome back Ambassadors and Consuls General to Washington, D.C. for our Chiefs of Mission conference. It’s an important opportunity for us to come together and discuss our continued work on behalf of the people of the United States.

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Happening now (actually just finishing): UN International School Hanoi @UNIS_Hanoi Spring Fair. Great community spirit. Congrats to @MarcKnapper 🇺🇸 on his mad AFL skills!