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SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER Chief of Staff THOMAS E. DONILON Executive Assistant to the Secretary ROBERT BRADTKE Special Assistant to the Secretary and WILLIAM J. BURNS Executive Secretary of the Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal DEIDRE A. DAVIS Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights Chief of Protocol MOLLY M. RAISER Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board JAMES OLDHAM Civil Service Ombudsman CATHERINE W. BROWN Deputy Secretary of State STROBE TALBOTT Under Secretary for Political Affairs PETER TARNOFF Under Secretary for Economic and JOAN E. SPERO Agricultural Affairs Under Secretary for Global Affairs TIMOTHY E. WIRTH Under Secretary for Arms Control and LYNN E. DAVIS International Security Affairs Under Secretary for Management RICHARD M. MOOSE Assistant Secretary for Administration PATRICK F. KENNEDY Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs MARY A. RYAN Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security ERIC JAMES BOSWELL Chief Financial Officer RICHARD L. GREENE Director General of the Foreign Service and ANTHONY C.E. QUAINTON Director of Personnel Medical Director, Department of State and ELMER F. RIGAMER, M.D. the Foreign Service Executive Secretary, Board of the Foreign LEWIS A. LUKENS Service Director of the Foreign Service Institute TERESITA C. SCHAEFFER Director, Office of Foreign Missions ERIC JAMES BOSWELL Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, PHYLLIS E. OAKLEY and Migration Affairs Inspector General JACQUELINE L. WILLIAMS-BRIDGER Director, Policy Planning Staff JAMES B. STEINBERG Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs BARBARA LARKIN Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human JOHN SHATTUCK Rights, and Labor Legal Advisor CONRAD K. HARPER Assistant Secretary for African Affairs GEORGE MOOSE Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific WINSTON LORD Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and JOHN KORNBLUM Canadian Affairs Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs ANNE PATTERSON, Acting 388 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 389

Permanent Representative of the United HARRIET C. BABBITT States of America to the Organization of American States Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs ROBERT H. PELLETREAU Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs ROBIN L. RAPHEL Assistant Secretary for Economic and DANIEL K. TARULLO Business Affairs Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and TOBY TRISTER GATI Research Assistant Secretary for International GEORGE WARD, Acting Organization Affairs Assistant Secretary for Oceans and EILEEN CLAUSSEN International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs THOMAS E. DONILON Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Politico- THOMAS E. MCNAMARA Military Affairs Assistant Secretary for International ROBERT S. GELBARD Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs U.S. Coordinator, International VONYA B. MCCANN Communications and Information Policy

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United States Representative to the United MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the EDWARD GNEHM, JR. United Nations United States Representative for Special KARL F. INDERFURTH Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the VICTOR MARRERO Economic and Social Council United States Representative for U.N. (VACANCY) Management and Reform [For the Department of State statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 5]

The Department of State advises the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy. As Chief Executive, the President has overall responsibility for the foreign policy of the United States. The Department of State’s primary objective in the conduct of foreign relations is to promote the long-range security and well-being of the United States. The Department determines and analyzes the facts relating to American overseas interests, makes recommendations on policy and future action, and takes the necessary steps to carry out established policy. In so doing, the Department engages in continuous consultations with the American public, the Congress, other U.S. departments and agencies, and foreign governments; negotiates

1 A description of the organization and functions of the United Nations can be found under Selected Multilateral Organizations in this book. 390 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL treaties and agreements with foreign nations; speaks for the United States in the United Nations and in more than 50 major international organizations in which the United States participates; and represents the United States at more than 800 international conferences annually.

The Department of State, the senior areas where public purposes are widely executive department of the U.S. applied are detailed below and on the Government, was established by act of following pages. July 27, 1789, as the Department of Economic and Agricultural Affairs The Foreign Affairs and was renamed Under Secretary for Economic and Department of State by act of September Agricultural Affairs is principal adviser to 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note). the Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the formulation and conduct of foreign Office of the Secretary economic policy. Specific areas for Secretary of State The Secretary of which the Under Secretary is responsible State, the principal foreign policy adviser include international trade, agriculture, to the President, is responsible for the energy, finance, transportation, and overall direction, coordination, and relations with developing countries. supervision of U.S. foreign relations and International Security Affairs The for the interdepartmental activities of the Under Secretary for International U.S. Government overseas. The Security Affairs is responsible for Secretary is the first-ranking member of assuring the integration of all elements of the Cabinet, is a member of the National the Foreign Assistance Program as an Security Council, and is in charge of the effective instrument of U.S. foreign operations of the Department, including policy and serves as Chairman of the the Foreign Service. The Office of the Arms Transfer Management Group. Secretary includes the offices of the Other areas of responsibility include Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries, international scientific and technological Assistant Secretaries, Counselor, Legal issues, communications and information Adviser, and Inspector General. Some policy, and technology transfers.

Regional Bureaus

Six Assistant Secretaries direct the Groups in the National Security Council activities of the geographic bureaus, system. These groups discuss and decide which are responsible for our foreign issues that can be settled at the Assistant affairs activities throughout the world. Secretary level, including those arising These are the Bureaus of African Affairs, out of the implementation of National European and Canadian Affairs, East Security Council decisions. They prepare Asian and Pacific Affairs, Inter-American Affairs, and Near Eastern Affairs, and policy papers for consideration by the South Asian Affairs. Council and contingency papers on The regional Assistant Secretaries also potential crisis areas for Council review. serve as Chairmen of Interdepartmental

Functional Areas

Diplomatic Security The Bureau of Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as amended Diplomatic Security, established under (22 U.S.C. 4803 et seq.), provides a the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and secure environment for conducting DEPARTMENT OF STATE 391

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY DEVELOPMENT UNITED STATES OF STATE PERMANENT UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE TO INFORMATION THE UNITED NATIONS AGENCY ARMS CONTROL DEPUTY SECRETARY AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY

POLICY EQUAL EMPLOYMENT COORDINATOR FOR EXECUTIVE CHIEF OF STAFF PROTOCOL OPPORTUNITY AND COUNTER- SECRETARY PLANNING CIVIL RIGHTS TERRORISM COUNCIL

UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC FOR ARMS CONTROL UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AND AGRICULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL FOR MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRS SECURITY AFFAIRS

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL- DEMOCRACY, AFRICAN FOREIGN MISSIONS BUSINESS MILITARY HUMAN RIGHTS, AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRS FOREIGN SERVICE AND LABOR INSTITUTE

INTERNATIONAL EAST ASIAN NARCOTICS AND AND PACIFIC ADMINISTRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS AFFAIRS

OCEANS AND EUROPEAN AND CONSULAR INTERNATIONAL CANADIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENTAL AND AFFAIRS SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS

POPULATION, INTER- DIPLOMATIC REFUGEES, AMERICAN SECURITY AFFAIRS AND MIGRATION

NEAR FINANCE AND EASTERN MANAGEMENT AFFAIRS POLICY

SOUTH DIRECTOR GENERAL ASIAN OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SERVICE AND DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL

MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR ORGANIZATION FAMILY LIAISON AFFAIRS OFFICE

PERSONNEL

INTELLIGENCE INSPECTOR LEGISLATIVE LEGAL ADVISOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND GENERAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH

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American diplomacy and promoting Department concerning developments in American interests worldwide. protective security. Additionally, it The Assistant Secretary of State for recommends methods and provides Diplomatic Security is responsible for: material for coordinating security —security and protective operations planning and implementation of security abroad and in the United States; programs. —counter-terrorism planning and The Office of Policy, Planning, and coordination; Budget assists in developing and —security technology development; coordinating Department and —foreign government security training; interagency security policy issues and and —personnel training. standards through participation in The Security Awareness Staff directs committees, councils, and working the development and execution of groups and in providing assistance to bureauwide security and information Diplomatic Security program offices by awareness policies and programs, press resolving policy inconsistencies. and media relations, and public For further information, call 202–663–0478. awareness. The Security Awareness Program provides information on Economic and Business Affairs The diplomatic security concerns and is a Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs focal point for responding to public has overall responsibility for formulating inquiries and maintaining media and implementing policy regarding relations on diplomatic security issues foreign economic matters, including and events. The Training Support resource and food policy, international Division provides publications and energy issues, trade, economic sanctions, training videotapes on diplomatic international finance and development, security concerns. and aviation and maritime affairs. The Private Sector Liaison Staff For further information, call 202–647–2720. maintains daily contact with and actively supports the U.S. private sector by Finance and Management Policy The disseminating timely, unclassified Bureau of Finance and Management security information concerning the Policy is directed by the Chief Financial safety of U.S. private sector personnel, Officer (CFO), who serves as the facilities, and operations abroad. The Department’s Budget Officer and Staff operates the Electronic Bulletin Management Control Officer and assists Board, a computerized, unclassified in managing the Department and its security information data base accessible posts. The CFO, assisted by well- to U.S. private sector enterprises. It also qualified and well-trained financial provides direct consultation services to management personnel, establishes the private sector concerning security effective management policies and threats abroad. internal controls; ensures adequate The Overseas Security Advisory systems to produce useful, reliable, and Council promotes cooperation on timely financial and related security-related issues between the programmatic information; develops American private sector interests useful financial analysis and worldwide and the Department of State, performance reports; and integrates as provided in 22 U.S.C. 2656 and the budget execution and accounting Federal Advisory Committee Act, as functions. amended (5 U.S.C. app.). The Council For further information, call 202–647–6778. establishes continuing liaison and provides for operational security Foreign Service Institute The Foreign cooperation between Department Service Institute of the Department of security functions and the private sector. State is the Federal Government’s The Council also provides for regular primary training institution for officers and timely exchange of information and support personnel of the foreign between the private sector and the affairs community. In addition to the DEPARTMENT OF STATE 393

Department of State, the Institute control assistance activities of the provides training for more than 40 other Department of State as authorized under governmental agencies. The Institute’s sections 481 and 482 of the Foreign more than 300 courses, including 60 Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 language courses, range in length from U.S.C. 2291, 2292). It is the principal several days to 2 years. The courses are point of contact and provides advice on designed to promote successful international narcotics control matters for performance in each professional the Office of Management and Budget, assignment, to ease the adjustment to the National Security Council, and the other countries and cultures, and to White House Office of National Drug enhance the leadership and management Control Policy in ensuring capabilities of the foreign affairs implementation of U.S. policy in community. international narcotics matters. For further information, call 703–302–6729. The Bureau provides guidance on narcotics control matters to chiefs of Intelligence and Research The Bureau missions and directs narcotics control of Intelligence and Research coordinates coordinators at posts abroad; programs of intelligence, analysis, and communicates or authorizes research for the Department and other communication, as appropriate with Federal agencies, and produces foreign governments, on drug control intelligence studies and current matters including negotiating, intelligence analyses essential to foreign concluding, and terminating agreements policy determination and execution. relating to international narcotics control Through its Office of Research, the programs as authorized by section 1(g)(3) Bureau maintains liaison with cultural of State Department Delegation of and educational institutions and oversees Authority No. 145 of February 4, 1980. contract research and conferences on For further information, call 202–776–8750. foreign affairs subjects. For further information, call 202–647–1080. International Organization Affairs The Bureau of International Organization International Communications and Affairs provides guidance and support for Information Policy The Bureau of United States participation in International Communications and international organizations and Information Policy is the principal conferences. It leads in the development, adviser to the Secretary of State on coordination, and implementation of international telecommunications policy United States multilateral policy. The issues affecting U.S. foreign policy and Bureau formulates and implements national security. The Bureau acts as United States policy toward international coordinator with other U.S. Government organizations, with particular emphasis agencies and the private sector in the on those organizations which make up formulation and implementation of the United Nations system. international policies relating to a wide For further information, call 202–647–6400. range of rapidly evolving communications and information Legal Advisor The Legal Advisor technologies. The Bureau promotes U.S. advises the Secretary and, through the telecommunications interests bilaterally Secretary, the President on all matters of and multilaterally. international law arising in the conduct For further information, call 202–647–5832. of United States foreign relations. The Legal Advisor also provides general legal International Narcotics and Law advice and services to the Secretary and Enforcement Affairs The Bureau of other officials of the Department on International Narcotics and Law matters with which the Department and Enforcement Affairs is responsible for overseas posts are concerned. developing, coordinating, and Medical Services The Office of Medical implementing international narcotics Services develops, manages, and staffs a 394 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL worldwide primary health care system The Bureau’s major activities are for U.S. citizen employees, and their designed to further U.S. national security eligible dependents, residing abroad. objectives by: stabilizing regional Agencies which participate in this military balances through negotiations medical program include the and security assistance; negotiating Department of State, the U.S. reductions in global inventories of Information Agency, the U.S. Agency for weapons of mass destruction and International Development, and over 48 curbing their proliferation; maintaining other foreign affairs agencies and offices. global access for U.S. military forces; In support of its overseas operations, the inhibiting adversaries’ access to militarily Office approves and monitors the significant technologies; and promoting medical evacuation of patients, conducts responsible U.S. defense trade. pre-employment and in-service physical For further information, call 202–647–6968. examinations, and provides clinical referral and advisory services. Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the Domestically, the Office offers principal adviser to the U.S. occupational health care, as well as Government, the President, the Vice numerous health education and health President, and the Secretary of State on maintenance programs. matters of diplomatic procedure governed by law or international custom For further information, call 202–647–3617. and practice. The Office is responsible Consular Affairs The Bureau of for: Consular Affairs, under the direction of —visits of foreign chiefs of state, heads the Assistant Secretary, is responsible for of government, and other high officials the administration and enforcement of to the United States; the provisions of the immigration and —operation of the President’s guest nationality laws, insofar as they concern house, Blair House; —delegations representing the the Department and the Foreign Service, President at official ceremonies abroad; for the issuance of passports and visas —conduct of official ceremonial and related services, and for the functions and public events; protection and welfare of American —accreditation of over 100,000 citizens and interests abroad. embassy, consular, international Approximately 5 million passports a year organization, and other foreign are issued by the Passport Office of the government personnel and members of Bureau, which has agencies in , their families throughout the United Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los States; Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New —determining entitlement to York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, diplomatic or consular immunity; Seattle, Stamford, and Washington, DC. —publication of diplomatic, mission For further information, see Sources of Information. employee, and consular lists; —resolution of problems arising out of Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of diplomatic or consular immunity such as Political-Military Affairs provides legal and police matters; guidance and coordinates policy —approving the opening of consular formulation on national security issues, offices in conjunction with the Office of including: nonproliferation of weapons Foreign Missions; of mass destruction and missile —official interpretation of the Order of technology; nuclear and conventional Precedence; arms control; defense relations and —conducting an outreach program of security assistance; and export controls. cultural enrichment and substantive It acts as the Department’s primary briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; and liaison with the Department of Defense. —organizing credential presentations The Bureau also participates in all major of newly arrived Ambassadors to the arms control, nonproliferation, and other President and to the Secretary of State. security-related negotiations. For further information, call 202–647–2663. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 395 Foreign Service

To a great extent the future of our United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ country depends on the relations we Foreign Service—Continued have with other countries, and those (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) relations are conducted principally by Country/Embassy Ambassador the United States Foreign Service. Armenia/Yerevan ...... Peter Tomsen Presently, representatives at 164 Australia/Canberra ...... Edward J. Perkins Embassies, 12 missions, 1 U.S. liaison Austria/Vienna ...... Swanee G. Hunt Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Richard D. Kauzlarich office, 1 U.S. interests section, 66 Bahamas/Nassau ...... Sidney Williams consulates general, 14 consulates, 3 Bahrain/Manama ...... David M. Ransom Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... David N. Merrill branch offices, and 45 consular agencies Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Jeanette W. Hyde throughout the world report to the State Belarus/Minsk ...... Kenneth S. Yalowitz Belgium/Brussels ...... Alan J. Blinken Department on the multitude of foreign Belize/Belize City ...... George C. Bruno developments that have a bearing on the Benin/Cotonou ...... John M. Yates welfare and security of the American /La Paz ...... Curt W. Kamman /Sara- John K. Menzies people. These trained representatives jevo. provide the President and the Secretary Botswana/Gaborone ...... Howard F. Jeter Brazil/Brasilia ...... Melvyn Levitsky of State with much of the raw material Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Theresa A. Tull from which foreign policy is made and Begawan. Bulgaria/ ...... (Vacancy) with the recommendations that help Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Donald J. McConnell shape it. Burundi/Bujumbura ...... Robert Krueger The Ambassador is the personal Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Kenneth M. Quinn Cameroon/Yaounde ...... Charles H. Twining representative of the President and Canada/Ottawa ...... (Vacancy) reports to the President through the Cape Verde/Praia ...... (Vacancy) Central African Republic/Bangui Mosina H. Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full Chad/N'Djamena ...... Laurence E. Pope II responsibility for implementation of U.S. / ...... Gabriel Guerra- Mondragon foreign policy by any and all U.S. , People's Republic of/ Jim Sasser Government personnel within their Beijing. Colombia/Bogota ...... Myles R.R. Frechette country of assignment, except those Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... Leslie M. Alexander under military commands. Their Congo/Brazzaville ...... William C. Ramsay responsibilities include negotiating /San Jose ...... Peter J. de Vos Cote d'Ivoire/Abidjan ...... Lannon Walker agreements between the United States Croatia/Zagreb ...... Peter W. Galbraith and the host country, explaining and Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Joseph G. Sullivan Section). disseminating official U.S. policy, and /Nicosia ...... Richard A. Boucher maintaining cordial relations with that Czech Republic/Prague ...... Jenonne R. Walker Denmark/Copenhagen ...... Edward E. Elson country’s government and people. Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... Martin L. Cheshes A listing of Foreign Service posts, Dominica/Roseau (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde together with addresses and telephone Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Donna J. Hrinak mingo. numbers and key personnel, appears in Ecuador/Quito ...... Peter F. Romero Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— /Cairo ...... Edward S. Walker El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Alan H. Flanigan Guide for Business Representatives, Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... Charles H. Twining which is for sale by the Superintendent Eritrea/Asmara ...... Robert G. Houdek Estonia/Tallinn ...... Lawrence P. Taylor of Documents, Government Printing Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... Irvin Hicks Office, Washington, DC 20402. Fiji/Suva ...... Don L. Gevirtz Finland/Helsinki ...... Derek Shearer United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ France/Paris ...... Pamela Harriman Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... Elizabeth Raspolic Foreign Service Gambia/Banjul ...... Gerald W. Scott (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) Georgia/Tbilisi ...... William H. Courtney /Bonn ...... Charles E. Redman Country/Embassy Ambassador Ghana/Accra ...... Edward Brynn Greece/Athens ...... Thomas M.T. Niles Albania/Tirana ...... (Vacancy) Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Algeria/Algiers ...... Ronald E. Neumann /Guatemala ...... Marilyn McAfee Angola/Luanda ...... Donald K. Steinberg Guinea/Conakry ...... Joseph A. Saloom III Antigua and Barbuda/St. John's Jeanette W. Hyde Guinea-Bissau/Bissau ...... Peggy Blackford (N). Guyana/Georgetown ...... David L. Hobbs Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... James R. Cheek Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... William L. Swing 396 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

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Country/Embassy Ambassador Country/Embassy Ambassador

Holy See/Vatican City ...... Raymond L. Flynn St. Kitts and Nevis (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... William T. Pryce St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... Richard W. Mueller St. Vincent and the Grenadines Jeanette W. Hyde Hungary/Budapest ...... Donald M. Blinken (N). Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Parker W. Borg Sao Tome and Principe/Sao Elizabeth Raspolic India/New Delhi ...... Frank G. Wisner Tome (N). Indonesia/Jakarta ...... J. Stapleton Roy Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... (Vacancy) Ireland/Dublin ...... Jean K. Smith Senegal/Dakar ...... Mark Johnson /Tel Aviv ...... Martin S. Indyk Seychelles/Victoria ...... (Vacancy) Italy/Rome ...... Reginald Bartholomew Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... John L. Hirsch Jamaica/Kingston ...... Jerome G. Cooper Singapore/Singapore ...... Timothy A. Chorba Japan/Tokyo ...... Walter F. Mondale Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Ralph R. Johnson Jerusalem ...... Edward G. Abington /Ljubljana ...... Victor Jackovich Jordan/Amman ...... Wesley W. Egan Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Richard W. Teare Kazakstan/Almaty ...... A. Elizabeth Jones /Pretoria ...... James A. Joseph Kenya/Nairobi ...... Aurelia E. Brazeal Spain/Madrid ...... Richard N. Gardner Kiribati/Parawa (N) ...... Joan M. Plaisted Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... A. Peter Burleigh Korea/Seoul ...... James T. Laney Sudan/Khartoum ...... Timothy M. Carney Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Ryan C. Crocker Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Roger R. Gamble Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Eileen A. Malloy Swaziland/Mbabane ...... John T. Sprott Laos/Vientiane ...... Victor L. Tomseth Sweden/Stockholm ...... Thomas L. Siebert Latvia/Riga ...... Larry C. Napper Switzerland/Bern ...... (Vacancy) Lebanon/Beirut ...... Richard H. Jones Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Christopher W.S. Ross Lesotho/Maseru ...... Bismarck Myrick Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... R. Grant Smith Liberia/Monrovia ...... William B. Milam Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... Brady Anderson Lithuania/Vilnius ...... James W. Swihart, Jr. Thailand/Bangkok ...... William H. Itoh /Luxembourg ...... Clay Constantinou Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... Vicki J. Huddleston Togo/Lome ...... Johnny Young Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Peter R. Chaveas Tonga/Nuku'alofa (N) ...... Don L. Gevirtz Malaysia/Kuala Lampur ...... John L. Malott Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Brian J. Donnelly Maldives/Male (N) ...... A. Peter Burleigh Spain. Mali/Bamako ...... David P. Rawson Tunisia/Tunis ...... Mary Ann Casey Malta/Valletta ...... Joseph R. Paolino, Jr. Turkey/Ankara ...... Marc Grossman Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Joan M. Plaisted Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Michael W. Cotter Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... Dorothy M. Sampas Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... Don L. Gevirtz Mauritius/Port Louis ...... Leslie M. Alexander Uganda/Kampala ...... E. Michael Southwick /Mexico City ...... James R. Jones /Kiev ...... William G. Miller Micronesia/Kolonia ...... March Fong Eu United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi David C. Litt /Chisinau ...... John T. Stewart United Kingdom/London ...... William J. Crowe, Jr. Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/ ...... Donald C. Johnson Uruguay/Montevideo ...... Thomas J. Dodd /Rabat ...... Marc C. Ginsberg Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... Stanley T. Escudero Mozambique/Maputo ...... Dennis C. Jett Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Richard W. Teare Namibia/Windhoek ...... Marshall F. McCallie /Caracas ...... Jeffrey Davidow Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... Don L. Gevirtz Western Samoa/Apia ...... Josiah H. Beeman Nepal/Kathmandu ...... Sandra L. Vogelgesang Yemen/Sanaa ...... David G. Newton Netherlands/The Hague ...... K. Terry Dornbush Zaire/Kinshasa ...... Daniel H. Simpson New Zealand/Wellington ...... Josiah H. Beeman /Lusaka ...... Roland K. Kuchel /Managua ...... John F. Maisto / ...... Johnny Carson Niger/Niamey ...... John S. Davison Nigeria/Abuja ...... Walter C. Carrington United States Permanent Diplomatic Norway/Oslo ...... Thomas A. Loftus Missions to International Organizations Oman/Muscat ...... Frances D. Cook /Islamabad ...... Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Organization Ambassador Panama/Panama ...... William J. Hughes Papua New Guinea/Port Richard W. Teare /Brussels ...... (Vacancy) Moresby. North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Robert E. Hunter Paraguay/Asuncion ...... Robert E. Service tion/Brussels. Peru/Lima ...... Alvin P. Adams, Jr. Organization of American States/ Harriet C. Babbitt Philippines/Manila ...... John D. Negroponte Washington, DC. Poland/Warsaw ...... Nicholas A. Rey Organization for Economic Co- David L. Aaron Portugal/Lisbon ...... Elizabeth F. Bagley operation and Development/ Qatar/Doha ...... Patrick N. Theros Paris. Romania/ ...... Alfred H. Moses United Nations/Geneva ...... Daniel L. Spiegel Russian Federation/ ...... Thomas R. Pickering United Nations/New York ...... Madeleine K. Albright Rwanda/Kigali ...... Robert E. Gribbin III United Nations/Vienna ...... John B. Ritch III DEPARTMENT OF STATE 397

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Audiovisual Materials The Bureau of Regulations permit their use for Consular Affairs has a 12-minute incidental personal travel related to an videotape on the safety of international official assignment if the host travel. ‘‘Traveling Abroad More Safely’’ government does not object. However, if provides general practical advice to U.S. employees or their dependents prefer to citizen travelers on avoiding the hazards travel on a regular tourist passport in of foreign travel. It includes steps to take connection with official travel, they may prior to departure, ways to protect apply by paying the regular passport fees against theft and legal problems, and and claiming reimbursement on their ways U.S. embassies and consulates can travel voucher. assist U.S. citizens who encounter Inquiries on these matters should be difficulty abroad. The tape is available directed to Passport Services, Diplomatic for $9 in VHS and Beta and $12.50 in and Congressional Travel Branch. Phone, 3/4-inch format, plus a $3 mailing and 202–955–0200. handling fee from Video Transfer, Inc., Employment Inquiries about 5710 Arundel Avenue, Rockville, MD employment in the Foreign Service 20552. Phone, 301–881–0270. should be directed to: PER/REE/REC, Contracts General inquiries may be P.O. Box 9317, Arlington, VA 22210. directed to the Office of Acquisitions (A/ Phone, 703–875–7490. Inquiries about OPR/ACQ), Department of State, civil service positions in the Department Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 703– of State should be directed to: PER/CSP/ 875–6060. POD, P.O. Box 18657, Washington, DC Diplomatic and Official Passports 20036–8657. The Department’s Civil Department employees may use Service Employment Information Office diplomatic and official passports only as is located inside the D Street north lobby long as they are retained in the position entrance of the Department of State or status for which originally issued. building, Washington, DC. The Civil Section 51.4 of title 22 of the Code of Service Personnel Office provides a 24- Federal Regulations states that such hour job information line. Phone, 202– passports must be returned upon 647–7284. termination of the bearer’s diplomatic or Freedom of Information Act and Privacy official status. Act Requests Requests from the public In accordance with the Department’s for Department of State records should Foreign Affairs Manual (3 FAM 784), it is be addressed to the Director, Office of the responsibility of administrative Freedom of Information Privacy and officers to ensure that Form DS–8A Classification Review, Department of includes a record of the disposition of State, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, passports issued to separating or retiring DC 20520–1512. Phone, 202–647– employees and their dependents. This 8484. Individuals are requested to includes all diplomatic and official indicate on the outside of the envelope passports, as well as any tourist passports the statute under which they are for which the employee has been requesting access: FOIA REQUEST or reimbursed by the Department. Because of the possibility of misuse of PRIVACY REQUEST. these documents, it is important that all Any identifiable Department of State offices establish and maintain effective document can be requested under the control over passport use. These Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. passports are normally destroyed by 552). Requesters should provide as much Passport Services; however, they may be identifying information as possible about canceled and returned as mementos if the document to assist the Department in requested. locating it. Include subject matter, Diplomatic passports may not be used timeframe, originator of the information, by employees for strictly personal travel. or any other helpful data. 398 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Only persons who are U.S. citizens or Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of aliens who are lawfully admitted to the Americans Abroad For information United States for permanent residence concerning missing persons, can request information under the emergencies, travel warnings, overseas Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). Under this voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or act, individuals may request access to deaths of Americans abroad, contact the records that are maintained under the Office of American Citizen Services, individual’s name or some other Department of State. Phone, 202–647– personally identifiable symbol. 5225. Correspondence should be Descriptions of record systems from directed to: Overseas Citizens Services, which documents can be retrieved by Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department the individual’s name are published in of State, Washington, DC 20520. the Federal Register, copies of which are available from the Director, Office of Inquiries regarding international Freedom of Information, Privacy and parental child abduction or adoption of Classification Review. To expedite foreign children by private U.S. citizens processing of requests, individuals should be directed to the Office of should specify the system of records they Children’s Issues, Overseas Citizens wish to have searched and should Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, provide the following identifying Department of State, Washington, DC information: full name; aliases (if any); 20520. Phone, 202–647–2688. date and place of birth; and circumstances, including approximate Passports For information concerning time period, which would have led to the issuance of U.S. passports, contact the creation of the record. Passport Services, Bureau of Consular A public reading room, where Affairs, 1111 19th Street NW., unclassified and declassified documents Washington, DC 20522–1705 (phone, may be inspected, is located in the 202–647–0518), or any of the field Department of State, 2201 C Street NW., offices. Additional information Washington, DC. Phone, 202–647–8484. concerning passport applications is Directions to the reading room may be available for sale by the Superintendent obtained from receptionists at public of Documents, Government Printing entrances to the Department. Office, Washington, DC 20402. Field OfficesÐPassport Office

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Boston, MA ...... Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Bldg., 02222 ...... 617±565±6998 Chicago, IL ...... Federal Bldg., 60604 ...... 312±353±7155 Honolulu, HI ...... Federal Bldg., 96850 ...... 808±541±1919 Houston, TX ...... 1919 Smith St., 77002 ...... 713±653±3153 Los Angeles, CA ...... 11000 Wilshire Blvd., 90024±3615 ...... 310±575±7070 Miami, FL ...... Federal Office Bldg., 33130 ...... 305±536±4681 New Orleans, LA ...... 701 Loyola Ave., 70113 ...... 504±589±6728 New York, NY ...... Rockefeller Ctr., 10111±0031 ...... 212±399±5290 Philadelphia, PA ...... Federal Bldg., 19106 ...... 215±597±7480 San Francisco, CA ...... 525 Market St., 94105±2773 ...... 415±744±4010 Seattle, WA ...... Federal Bldg., 98174 ...... 206±220±7777 Stamford, CT ...... 1 Landmark Sq., 06901 ...... 203±325±4401 Washington, DC ...... 1425 K St. NW., 20522±1705 ...... 202±647±0518

Publications The Department’s Bureau The series Foreign Relations of the of Public Affairs produces a variety of United States, published since 1861 in publications on the Department and over 300 volumes, constitutes the official foreign policy, including two official documentary record of U.S. foreign documentary series, Foreign Relations of policy. It is the most extensive and most the United States and American Foreign near-current publication of diplomatic Policy: Current Documents, and two papers in the world. The Office of the publications on U.S. foreign policy, Historian will soon complete the 75 Dispatch and Background Notes. print volumes and microfiche DEPARTMENT OF STATE 399 supplements documenting the foreign Telephone Directory The Department’s policy of the Eisenhower administration telephone directory is available for sale (1953–1960). Publication of 32 print by the Superintendent of Documents, volumes and supplements on the foreign Government Printing Office, policy of the Kennedy administration Washington, DC 20402. (1961–1963) will be completed in 1996. Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The The American Foreign Policy annual following pamphlets from the Bureau of volumes contain current official public Consular Affairs are for sale for $1 by expressions of policy that best convey the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. the objectives of U.S. foreign policy. The Government Printing Office, series includes texts of major official Washington, DC 20402: messages, addresses, statements, reports, Travel Tips for Older Americans and communications by the White contains basic information on passports, House, Department of State, and other currency, health, aid for serious Federal agencies involved in the foreign problems, and other useful travel tips for affairs process. Microfiche supplements, senior citizens. which include additional public Your Trip Abroad contains basic documents, accompany the 1981 and information on passports, vaccinations, subsequent annual volumes. unusual travel requirements, dual The Department’s weekly magazine, nationality, drugs, modes of travel, Dispatch, offers a diverse compilation of customs, legal requirements, and many speeches, congressional testimony, other topics for the American tourist, policy statements, fact sheets, and other business representative, or student foreign policy information. traveling overseas. Background Notes provide brief, A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful precautions to minimize one’s chances factual summaries concerning the of becoming a victim of terrorism and people, history, government, economy, also provides other safety tips. and foreign relations of about 180 Tips for Americans Residing Abroad countries (excluding the United States) contains advice for more than 2 million and of selected international Americans living in foreign countries. organizations. A free index is available. Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad Dispatches, Background Notes, and contains important facts on the potential other materials—including reports to dangers of being arrested for illegal Congress—are carried over the drugs abroad and the type of assistance Government Printing Office’s (GPO) that U.S. consular officers can and Federal Bulletin Board Service. This cannot provide. This booklet is free from information can also be accessed the Department of State, Consular through the Department of Commerce’s Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 5807, National Technical Information Service’s Washington, DC 20520. FedWorld network, as well as through The Bureau of Consular Affairs also other data base services. A GPO deposit publishes a series of brochures on travel account may be opened by calling 202– to specific areas of the world. 512–0822. Depending on the region, the brochures For information on these and other cover topics such as currency and Department publications, write to Public customs regulations, entry requirements, Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, dual nationality, and restrictions on the Department of State, Room 5831, use of photography. Copies are available Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 202– from the Government Printing Office for 647–6575. $1. Currently available are: Tips for Reading Room To review declassified Travelers to the Caribbean; Tips for Department documents, contact the Travelers to Eastern Europe; Tips for receptionists at the public entrance to Travelers to Mexico; Tips for Travelers to the Department of State, 2201 C Street the and North Africa; Tips NW., Washington, DC, for the specific for Travelers to the People’s Republic of location. Phone, 202–647–8484. China; Tips for Travelers to South Asia; 400 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Tips for Travelers to Central and South from the Consumer Information Center, America; and Tips for Travelers to Sub- Pueblo, CO 81009. Saharan Africa. Visas To obtain information on visas Foreign Entry Requirements contains for foreigners wishing to enter the United visa and other entry requirements of States, call 202–663–1225. foreign countries. Order for 50 cents

For further information concerning the Department of State, contact the Office of Public Communication, Public Information Service, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 202–647–6575.