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Winner of the 2022 Director General’s Foreign Service Cup, Patrick F. Kennedy [State Department graphic/ Public Domain]

May 5, 2022

Winner of the 2022 Director General's Foreign Service Cup, Patrick F. Kennedy [State Department graphic/ Public Domain]

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