U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns held talks in Libya Thursday with the country’s new prime minister and head of the national congress following last week’s attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three of his staff. Burns attended a ceremony to honor Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

William Burns: “This is a hard moment for all of us. It is a moment of shared loss, and it is a moment of shared hope and shared responsibility. We have lost four wonderful colleagues. We have lost a brilliant ambassador, full of courage and skill and passionate determination to help Libyans, to help all of you to realize the promise of your revolution, to make a reality of a free Libya, of 'Libya al Hurra.'”