Promise Posts – Page 16

Barack Obama

Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty

Terms of new START treaty would supersede these limits | March 31, 2010

Barack Obama

Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010

Challenging conference went off successfully | August 10, 2011

Barack Obama

Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security

White House nuclear security coordinator was installed in January | December 10, 2009

Barack Obama

Expand federal bioforensics program for tracking biological weapons

Main facility is now operational | November 3, 2011

Barack Obama

Develop a comprehensive cyber security and response strategy

Obama makes progress on three-pronged cyber strategy | December 12, 2016

Barack Obama

Initiate a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime

Legislation for grants passed, funded | January 13, 2010

Barack Obama

Work to persuade the European Union to end credit guarantees to Iran

EU clamps down on Iran but Obama’s role is minor | December 12, 2012

Barack Obama

Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds

Diplomatic effort delivered | December 15, 2009

Barack Obama

Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)

Obama has dropped the acronym, but the goals remain the same | December 21, 2009

Barack Obama

Work for the release of international dissidents

U.S. has helped many dissidents, though not all, go free | December 11, 2012

Barack Obama

Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies

Appropriations act created emerging democracies fund | December 29, 2009

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Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba

Historic agreement expands visiting rights and more | December 18, 2014

Barack Obama

End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war

Money in budgets, but supplementals aren’t going away | September 16, 2010

Barack Obama

Train and equip the Afghan army

Afghan forces take the lead but still need U.S. help | December 8, 2016

Barack Obama

Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion

Administration meets goal of boosting non-military funding in Afghanistan | May 15, 2012

Barack Obama

Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts

Pakistan aid package comes with strings | October 19, 2009

Barack Obama

Better integrate efforts of federal agencies with the military through new Mobile Development Teams

Military-civilian teams have operated in far-flung corners of Afghanistan | December 21, 2012

Barack Obama

Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe

Jakarta center is first of a new generation | January 18, 2011

Barack Obama

Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration

Obama says in Turkey that U.S. not at war with Islam | April 10, 2009

Barack Obama

End the use of torture

Wide agreement that Obama’s torture ban has held | November 14, 2011

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