FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s Awarding Ceremony

Grateful to Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Dick Durbin for their longstanding support for Kosovo.

We discussed NATO membership, the U.S.-Kosovo Strategic Dialogue, regional security and the fight against Serbia’s attempts to rewrite history.

Kosovo’s truth cannot be relativized:

We must always have the courage to defend the truth, even when others would prefer that we forget it, blur it or relativize it. We must never allow history to be rewritten in a way that places the aggressor and the victim in the same moral ground.
There is no moral equivalency

Twenty five years later, we remember.

We remember the lives taken, the families shattered, the courage of those who risked their lives to save others, and the extraordinary solidarity that followed.

On September 11, we mourn the innocent, honor the brave, and remember that