Своей публикацией ведомство делает отсылку к многочисленным заметкам в западных СМИ. публикация = publicaiton, release ведомство = state department, bureau делать отсылку = ссылаться = to refer, to imply многочисленные заметки = numerous articles западные СМИ = western media By publishing a certain article (by releasing certain information in the press) the State Department refers (implies) to numerous articles, which have been published in the western media.

It's out of context, so I can just suppose that the idea was like the main idea of the article was to make some explanations (or just give some information) by providing links to some (a lot of) original notes from abroad. Smth. like that: - hey guys, what the ***? how come the economy is down? - well, you know - it's a global thing... you can see that in international finance journal - article by the lead financial guy, also the problem was first highlighted in 1999 by *** (*** journal) and BBC made a huge conference on that (link) IMHO