a determination to keep fighting for human rights and democracy in their countries . as for the governments of those countries, this summit focused on collaborating with partners to respond to the practical needs of people across the atmosphere. it's hard to do that with governments that reject the basic principle that they are accountable to their people and repressed their citizens rights to speak up about the challenges they face. so he's only present by his leadership in bringing the summer together and driving broad support for its deliverables. we have a lot to show for this weeks work. together, our countries agreed to ambitious commitments in public health and pandemic preparedness, clean energy, climate change adaptation, digital transformation, democratic governance. these commitments give us benchmarks to hold us countable by our fellow democracies and by the people that we serve. the united states and now stood commitments to of these efforts, ford, and let me just quickly highlight a few together with partners. we will train and equip 500500000 local health care workers across the hemisphere over the next 5 years. so that more people can get quality care in their communities. we announced a new economic agenda, the america's partnership. freakonomics prosperity is focused on building more equitable growth from the bottom up. and from the middle out, we'll bring more countries into the partnership over the coming months. a key part of the agenda will be working with multilateral institutions, to increase financing for the regions, middle income academies, which aren't developed enough to qualify for membership and groups like the g 20 or the always cd. and yet are to develop to qualify for aid from international financial institutions like the world bank. this is something that we heard loud and clear from our partners and caricom as well as others. so to that end, president biden is proposing fundamental reforms to the inner american development bank so that it can invest in middle income countries. as the banks, largest donor, the united states will put more resources into the banks, private sector lending arm to support these kinds of investments. we're also turbo, charging our efforts to support the regions transition to clean energy. here at the summit, 5 new countries announced they planned to join the renewable energy for latin america and caribbean initiative. that brings us to 20 countries, teaming up to hit an unprecedented target, producing 70 percent of the hemispheres electricity through renewable energy. by the year 2030, we announced a new partnership to invest in clean energy programs and climate adaptation resilience across the caribbean, and expanded regional efforts to protect and conserve our oceans. in no small part, thanks to the extraordinary work of our climate envoy, john kerry, regional development banks committed 50000000000 dollars over 5 years to help countries reduce emissions, expand renewable energy address. the growing climate crisis will work with the banks going forward to ensure that the funding helps lower the barriers and risks to investing in a sustainable future, making it not only economically viable but desirable for the private sector. as part of our commitment to strengthen democracy, united states committed $75000000.00 in new support for over $300.00 community lead organizations across the americas that are on the front lines of advancing human rights. lifting more people out of poverty, fighting corruption, usa i. d, we'll devote an additional $42000000.00 to waiting, civil society and central america. part of what is really a whole of government commitment to promoting freedom of expression, countering digital repression, defending other spaces where citizens engage in their democracies. finally, we plan to host the 1st ever city some of the americas in denver, colorado. next april 2023. this will foster greater cooperation among city, state, regional leaders, together with business, with youth, with a and jo's. what we are already seeing is that cities are the leading innovators and bringing citizens and governments together to actually solve concrete real world problems. and we've got a lot to learn from. we have also as part of this, the cities, ford initiative, which will draw the knowledge and expertise from across our own government to help cities meet their goals, are becoming more equitable, more environmentally sustainable. so in some i think it's fair to say that we've emerged from the summit, clear eyed about the challenges that we face and more aligned on the way forward together building on our strength as democracies and knowing as present by the said, that at heart we have everything that which we need right here in our own hemisphere, in the americas, everything we did the we need to deliver for our people. so with that, thank you. happy to take some questions. we will now turn to questions we'll start with you may or a hammock of reuters. hello, are very willing, can i have a couple of questions, so please bear with me. some countries who were present here today at the summit chose not to sign up for the migration declaration. what were their reservations and how is the united states going to address those going forward? and how many do you think can be on board by the end of the year? and with respect to ration you expect for record number of migrant arrivals at the border to fall? that was my 1st one. my 2nd one is many leaders express their discontent to you asked excluding cuba and venezuela, and they raised concerns about the unity in the region. what will be administration due to ease those concerns and could that trigger a rethink of us policy towards the region? thanks. thanks for us. so 1st on the only decoration on migration i'm, i'm not sure if you were you are in the room, but if you looked at that stage, there were 20 countries represented on that stage. and as i said, this is the 1st time that we've come together across the hemisphere to take shared responsibility for the migration challenge. countries of origin, transit countries, countries of destination. and this is a significant step forward in my, in my judgment because it actually promises i think, more effective action and making sure that we have you main orderly, safe ah, migration. and a few things that i would just point to in the declaration itself. because it's important, the commitments that governments made include to expand temporary worker programs to address labor shortages while reducing irregular migration. this is a real when, when it's a win win for countries like the united states, canada, mexico. they committed to open and expand or reinforce other legal channels for migration, including refugee resettlement, family unification programs. that too will help address critical labor shortages. there's a commitment to search support to countries that are hosting large refugee and migrant populations. to make sure that, that sustainable, because we see the burden of this places on communities in different parts of our hemisphere. there's a commitment to combat and root out human smuggling networks, but pray on the most vulnerable in the region. so that's a very strong principled foundation. 20 countries are on board. my full expectation is that more will join as we go forward. at the same time, one of the things we're doing is working directly with other countries, with migration ah, arrangements, so that we're looking in individual cases at what specific steps are individual countries might take again to help manage this challenge effectively. so what will the results be? i will say we want to make sure that we're measuring our, our progress. but this is an important vehicle for actually making progress in managing the migration charge effectively. i mentioned as well, we know that even as we're taking short term and near and medium term steps to ah managed migration. ah, ultimately the long term investments that we're trying to make in countries from which stress, how many people are leaving, are ultimately we're going to make the most difference. and there, as i mentioned at this summit, the vice president was able to announce that thanks to her work, we have an additional $3200000000.00 and investment from the private sector going to the countries out of our northern central america. over time. what that does is it creates opportunity. one of the biggest single drivers of migration is a lack of opportunity if we and others can help created. that's going to make a big difference. it will give people a choice. so this will play out over time. there some immediate measures are but, and some, this is medium term. some of this is longer term as to the 2nd part of the question . first, let me say this. i am in the case of venezuela, cuba, nicaragua, they were here at the summit. i met was i met with human rights defenders. i met with civil society from those countries. and i would argue that they are more representative of the people in those respective countries than their current governments or regimes. ah, some other countries were here at the foreign minister level, but fully enforce we had, i think, all told about 68 delegations, 22 i had of state and it's interesting, i know some people like to focus on differences of opinion in who was here. but everyone was fully united on what we did here. and i recited some of the concrete achievements of the summit. that was the focus of virtually all of the conversations that i had over the last 3 days. we will turn to missy ryan blackston post i secretary lincoln, betsy, you went over this very ambitious list of deliverables that was announced during the summit, but it was unclear to me at least whether there'll be a large amount of new u. s. government investments associated with those, especially in comparison to some of the reset u. s. government support for ukraine to ukraine, for example. and i understand the argument that much of the reach of this now middle income. i'm. by the same time, we heard some really poignant appeals from caribbean nations and others saying that there mired and debt due to climate change that caused largely by big countries like the united states. and they're drowning in violence caused in march part by u. s. origin guns, do you think perhaps the u. s. has a greater financial responsibility given its role in, excuse me, contributing to these problems. and secondly, i want to press you a little bit more on an issue that you discussed with tele visa. and i'm, that's the complaint that we heard from a number of countries, including i'm gabrielle burridge. when he spoke with the wash and post this week, about a double standard and you as a gauge meant with and support for some countries with problematic governments and rights records, like saudi arabia, egypt, in other countries, which as you said, are not accountable to their people and then choosing not to engage with other ones . i'm just gonna sit down to so i can read this. i'm it, i heard you say that you are trying to see how you can stand up for people more effectively. but could you be warned specific and telling us how you think about when to engage in some countries and issues and when not to engage? and do you think that these leaders are making that point? do have a point. thanks. great, thanks. was you. so 1st on the, on the question raised very eloquently and powerfully by our partners in the caribbean. oh, this is something the president vice president were extremely spencer to we had. but i saw it was an excellent meeting between the present, the vice president and our carrier con partners yesterday. now again, don't take it from me, ask them what they thought. certainly what i heard from them coming out of the meeting, what i heard today is that this is, is one of them put it on the best meeting we've had in a decade with the leadership of the united states. and the reason it was such a good meeting is, 1st of all, because on the president and vice president listened intently to the concerns expressed by countries in the caribbean and responded, i think effectively to them, you pointed to something really important. there is a different kind of middle income trap, where countries are classified as being middle income or even a higher income. and yet, they are particularly afflicted by covet or, or, or the climate crisis. they don't have the means to respond and yet they don't qualify for, for example, concession re lending. or they have so much debt piled up that even if they could qualify. ah, they've got a problem. so we are committed to, to tackling this problem. and the president is engaged to working with the multilateral development banks to find ways to effectively support countries that are in this position to make sure that they can get the support they need for, for example, climate adaptation or to respond to the food crisis or to respond to a health crisis, and i think again, if you ask our colleagues from the caribbean, they will, um, i suspect tell you that they very much appreciated the, the work that was done. and so much so that one of the agreements that came out of the meeting yesterday was to immediately establish a working group between the united states and the caricom countries to work through these practical problems. and to make sure that we are actually seized by the fierce urgency of now, not next year, not in 5 years. now. the 2nd part of the question with any given country, ah, we are looking at a multiplicity of interests, but also a common thread of a values. president biden committed to putting human rights and democracy at the heart of our foreign policy. it is, but that doesn't mean that it's the totality. it's a critical element that we look to and we're always trying to assess in any given relationship where we think we can be most effective both and advancing our interests, but doing it in a way that is consistent with and, and, and advances are values of the same time that is simply going to differ from country to country, even though that thread runs throughout. so for example, in the case of, of saudi arabia, which, which you mentioned, we determined early on that it was important to recalibrate the relationship to make sure that it better reflected in our judgment, our, our interests and values. but to do it away, the didn't i roughly relationship. it's a tremendously important relationship and partnership in terms of combating extremism in terms of dealing with, with iran, tremendously important as well in trying to bring to an end one of the worst conflicts in the world over the last decade. that's been perhaps the worst humanitarian crisis on the globe, and that's by the conflict in yemen. and in part as a result of the work that we've been able to do with the leadership of saudi arabia, we help achieve a truce in yemen has now been expanded for a 2nd period of time. humanitarian assistance is getting to places where it couldn't before, and we have an opportunity fragile, but a real opportunity to maybe have a sustain piece in yemen. so this is about getting results, doing it in a principal way. we can go down the list of, of, of each country different situations in each, but our focus is the same. how can we most effectively advance america's interests, but also america's values. good ariella, woodside, us a television. thank you, nest. thank you mister secretary, i would like to know in the declaration of los angeles and senior officials, also from the united states government has said that all countries are, should enforce or that the united states suspects are all countries to enforce their own immigration loss. could you please elaborate on what type of enforcement actions you have been discussing, especially in the case of mexico. thank you. thank you. ah. if you, you look at the declaration, it, as i said, sets sets out some very, some basic principles and it sets out commitments by governments to, to do certain things. the basic principles that we agree to are the absolute need to make sure that migration is safe. it's orderly, it's humane. and we want to make sure that we're putting human dignity at the heart of everything that we do. and that means making sure that migrants are treated in a you main and dignified way that we build in safety along the entire process of migration. but at the same time that we uphold and respect our individual laws and that those laws be enforced. so all of that is in the declaration i went through, i won't belabor again. i went through the specific commitments that governments have undertaken as part of the declaration are in all aspects of migration again ah, to include things like expanded temporary worker programs to include things like, ah, creating more legal channels for migration support for communities that are hosting many refugees and migrants, ah, and combating and rooting out smuggling networks. but in, in all of us, we expect that countries will just as the united states will uphold and enforce its laws. those are all, i think go relatively self evident i'm, i'm not going to go through them for each country. i mentioned as well that with this declaration that covers now 20 countries in the atmosphere. we've also been engaged with individual countries on arrangements that go to even more specific things that the countries can do, particularly when it comes to our protections for migrants ah, in their system. but also when it comes, for example, to repatriated, migrants to the countries they came for enforcing their laws to do that seeking agreement with other governments to do that. there's a long, long list of things. thank you. editor. awesome. v p i t v i thank you for doing this. thank you. well, we are here at the summit. my daughter is currently visiting iran and turkey, and he is also talking directly with russia and china. are you concerned that they can sign and agreed men offering more things to the regina than you? maduro refused to return to their dialogue in mexico. do you believe it is worth it for the us to continue? e. e. sin sanctions do are place in all your hob on the negotiations, but what other alternative are the u. s. exploring beside next cycle? and another question, where can we spec in demands to come? as the u. s. administration chef, it's attention to hits other urge and then press in matters. how can latin america stayed as a priority spot for you? will you a mass is migration wave convinced you that their region? it's both political and security priorities. your enemies are you in the region use indian migration car to unsettle the u. s. thank you. thank you. ah, 1st, when it comes to negotiations and venezuela ah, both the unitary platform and the majority regime in recent days. i have signaled an intent to resume those conversations or negotiations in mexico city. that is the latest information that we have. that's what we're looking toward. and in our judgment, venezuelan lead negotiations between the missouri regime and the unitary platform are the best path that we can see are trying to restore to venezuelan some a democracy that they clearly deserve and clearly want and alleviate the extraordinary suffering is taking place. in recent years, ah, we're very much committed to supporting venezuelans in this effort. and certainly their democratic aspirations under the right circumstances ah, with the support the international community, the parties themselves are best position to negotiate steps toward a solution to the medicine crisis. so again, the most recent information we have is that there is an attempt to return to mexico city. and that's something that we support. we've also made clear that when it comes to sanctions, sanctions are not an end in themselves. ah, they are an effort to incentivize, ah, those who are on the receiving end to engage in different conduct. a