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Hillary Clinton answers questions at the United Nations in New York yesterday. Ms Clinton admitted she made a mistake in choosing not to use an official email account when she was US secretary of state. Photograph: Don Emmertdon Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

Ms Clinton told a press conference at the United Nations she opted, for convenience, to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the state department to carry only one mobile device. Looking back it would have been better to use two separate phones and two separate email accounts.

Ms Clinton said all her work-related emails would be released to the public, adding that the publication would give unprecedented insight into a high government officials daily communications, which I think will be quite interesting.

Minutes before Ms Clintons remarks, US state department officials told reporters emails sent by Ms Clinton would be posted to a website after a set given to them by her inner circle had been reviewed. However, the officials said the process would take several months.

About 300 redacted emails relating to the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic station in Benghazi, Libya, are reportedly to be the first selection posted. The state department did not specify what proportion of Ms Clintons archive would be published.

We will review the entire 55,000-page set and release in one batch at the end of that review to make sure that standards are consistently applied, Jen Psaki, the state department spokeswoman, told a briefing in Washington.

Until yesterday, her response had been limited to a single tweet, which left questions unanswered. I want the public to see my email, Ms Clinton posted last week. I asked state to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

Data experts have questioned the security of her private email setup, which was detached from government servers. Republicans in Congress, journalists and transparency advocates are demanding all messages relating to her work as Americas most senior diplomat be disclosed in response to ongoing inquiries in Washington and public records requests.

Officials previously said Ms Clintons team produced more than 55,000 pages of relevant emails. But it remains unclear how many messages, if any, have been held back.

Barack Obama and his advisers have sought to distance themselves from the controversy. Stressing that his own emails comply with all demands under presidential records laws, Mr Obamas advisers have argued Ms Clintons camp is responsible.

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