DEPARTMENT OF STATE 2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520 Phone, 202–647–4000. Internet, www.state.gov.

SECRETARY OF STATE Deputy Secretary of State ROBERT B. ZOELLICK Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for HENRY A. CRUMPTON Counterterrorism U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator MARK DYBUL, Acting Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and (VACANCY) Research Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs JEFFREY T. BERGNER Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board EDWARD REIDY Chief of Protocol DONALD B. ENSENAT Chief of Staff BRIAN GUNDERSON Civil Service Ombudsman FREDERICK A. WHITTINGTON Counselor of the Department of State PHILIP ZELIKOW Director of the Office of Civil Rights (VACANCY) Director, Policy Planning Staff STEPHEN KRASNER Inspector General HOWARD J. KRONGARD Legal Adviser JOHN B. BELLINGER III Special Assistant to the Secretary and HARRY K. THOMAS, JR. Executive Secretary of the Department Under Secretary for Arms Control and ROBERT JOSEPH International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and STEPHEN G. RADEMAKER, Acting Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary for Political-Military JOHN HILLEN Affairs Assistant Secretary for PAULA A. DESUTTER Verification,Compliance, and Implementation Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and JOSETTE S. SHINER Agricultural Affairs Assistant Secretary for Economic and DANIEL S. SULLIVAN Business Affairs Under Secretary for Democracy and Global PAULA J. DOBRIANSKY Affairs Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human BARRY F. LOWENKRON Rights, and Labor Assistant Secretary for Oceans and CLAUDIA A. MCMURRAY International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Population, ELLEN SAUERBREY Refugees, and Migration Under Secretary for Management HENRIETTA H. FORE Assistant Secretary for Administration RAJKUMAR CHELLARAJ Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs MAURA HARTY 291

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Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security RICHARD J. GRIFFIN and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions Assistant Secretary for Information JAMES VAN DERHOFF Resource Management and Chief Information Officer Assistant Secretary for Resource BRADFORD R. HIGGINS Management and Chief Financial Officer Director and Chief Operating Officer of CHARLES E. WILLIAMS Overseas Buildings Operations Director General of the Foreign Service GEORGE M. STAPLES and Director of Human Resources Director of the Foreign Service Institute RUTH A. WHITESIDE Director, Office of Medical Services LAURENCE G. BROWN Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. NICHOLAS BURNS Assistant Secretary for African Affairs JENDAYI E. FRAZER Assistant Secretary for East Asian and CHRISTOPHER R. HILL Pacific Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and DANIEL FRIED Eurasian Affairs Assistant Secretary for International ANNE W. PATTERSON Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary for Western THOMAS A. SHANNON, JR. Hemisphere Affairs Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs C. Assistant Secretary for South and Central RICHARD A. BOUCHER Asian Affairs Ambassador and Coordinator for MAUREEN E. QUINN Assistant Secretary for International KRISTEN SILVERBERG Organization Affairs Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and KAREN P. HUGHES Public Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and SEAN IAN MCCORMACK Spokesman for the Department of State Assistant Secretary for Educational and DINA HABIB POWELL Cultural Affairs Coordinator, International Information ALEXANDER C. FELDMAN Programs Permanent Representative of the United RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE States of America to the Organization of American States

United States Mission to the 1 799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

United States Permanent Representative to the JOHN R. BOLTON United Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the ALEJANDRO DANIEL WOLFF United Nations

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United States Representative for Special JACKIE W. SANDERS Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the RICHARD T. MILLER Economic and Social Council United States Representative for U.N. MARK D. WALLACE 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 and promotes 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 treaties and agreements with foreign nations; speaks for the United States in the United Nations and other international organizations in which the United States participates; and represents the United States at international conferences.

The Department of State was established support to the schools abroad that by act of July 27, 1789, as the educate dependents of U.S. Government Department of Foreign Affairs and was employees; and small and disadvantaged renamed Department of State by act of business utilization. Direct services to September 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 the public and other Government note). agencies include: authenticating documents used abroad for legal and Secretary of State The Secretary of business purposes; responding to State is responsible for the overall requests under the Freedom of direction, coordination, and supervision Information and Privacy Acts and of U.S. foreign relations and for the providing the electronic reading room interdepartmental activities of the U.S. for public reference to State Department Government abroad. The Secretary is the records; and determining use of the first-ranking member of the Cabinet, is a diplomatic reception rooms of the Harry member of the National Security S. Truman headquarters building in Council, and is in charge of the Washington, DC. operations of the Department, including the Foreign Service. For further information, contact the Bureau of Regional Bureaus Foreign affairs Administration at 703–875–7000. activities worldwide are handled by the Consular Affairs The Bureau of geographic bureaus, which include the Consular Affairs is responsible for the Bureaus of African Affairs, European and protection and welfare of American Eurasian Affairs, East Asian and Pacific citizens and interests abroad; the Affairs, Near East Affairs, South and administration and enforcement of the Asian Affairs, and Western Hemisphere provisions of the immigration and Affairs. nationality laws insofar as they concern Administration The Bureau of the Department of State and Foreign Administration provides support Service; and the issuance of passports programs to the Department of State and and visas and related services. U.S. embassies and consulates, including Approximately 10 million passports a management of owned or leased year are issued by the Office of Passport facilities in the United States; Services of the Bureau at the processing procurement; supply and transportation; centers in Portsmouth, NH, and diplomatic pouch and small mail Charleston, SC, and the regional services; official records, publishing, and agencies in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; library services; language services; Aurora, Colorado; Honolulu, HI;

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DIRECTOR LIAISON OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR AND OPERATIONS MEDICAL SERVICES AT LARGE HUMAN RESOURCES OVERSEAS BUILDINGS AMBASSADOR

OF HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR OFFICE OF WHITE HOUSE WHITE OF OFFICE COUNTERTERRORISM DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE CONSULAR AFFAIRS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOREIGN SERVICE AND DIRECTOR MANAGEMENT UNITED STATES TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICER UNDER SECRETARY FOR ASSISTANT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE SECRETARY AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER INSTITUTE DIRECTOR DIPLOMATIC MANAGEMENT SECURITY AND ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN SERVICE CHIEF INFORMATION FOREIGN MISSIONS INFORMATION RESOURCE ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR PROGRAMS INFORMATION COORDINATOR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION

PUBLIC AFFAIRS CULTURAL AFFAIRS CULTURAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS

EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT ASSISTANT SECRETARY PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT SECRETARY INTELLIGENCE AND DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE

SECRETARY OF STATE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRS ASSISTANT SECRETARY LEGISLATIVE VERIFICATION INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND IMPLEMENTATION COMPLIANCE AND NONPROLIFERATION POLITICAL-MILITARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF STATE ARMS CONTROL AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY CHIEF OF STAFF UNDER SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY LEGAL ADVISER AND ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS ECONOMIC, BUSINESS ASSISTANT SECRETARY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS UNDER SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATOR DIRECTOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS AFFAIRS SOUTH ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY STAFF ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS DIRECTOR POLICY PLANNING POLITICAL AFFAIRS UNDER SECRETARY FOR AFFAIRS AFFAIRS GENERAL WESTERN INSPECTOR HEMISPHERE NEAR EASTERN EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS AFRICAN AFFAIRS ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY

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Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, classified processing equipment, and FL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; management information systems; the Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; physical and technical protection of Seattle, WA; Norwalk, CT; Stamford, CT; domestic and overseas facilities of the and Washington, DC. In addition, the Department of State; providing Bureau helps secure America’s borders professional law enforcement and against entry by terrorists or narco- security training to U.S. and foreign traffickers, facilitates international personnel; and a comprehensive, adoptions, and supports parents whose multifaceted overseas security program children have been abducted abroad. servicing the needs of U.S. missions and For further information, visit the Bureau of the resident U.S. citizens and business Consular Affairs Web site at www.travel.state.gov. communities. Through the Office of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Foreign Missions, the Bureau regulates The Bureau of Democracy, Human the domestic activities of the foreign Rights, and Labor (DRL) is responsible diplomatic community in the areas of for developing and implementing U.S. taxation, real property acquisitions, policy on democracy, human rights, motor vehicle operation, domestic travel, labor, and religious freedom. The Bureau and customs processing. undertakes dialog with foreign For further information, contact the Bureau of governments and builds partnerships in Diplomatic Security. Phone, 571–345–2499. Fax, multilateral organizations in order to 571–345–2527. Internet, www.ds.state.gov. build global consensus in support of democratic rule and universal human Economic and Business Affairs The rights principles. It is responsible for Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs preparing the annual Country Reports on has overall responsibility for formulating Human Rights Practices which are and implementing policy regarding regarded as the most comprehensive and international development and objective assessment of human rights reconstruction, trade, investment, conditions around the world. Through intellectual property enforcement, the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, international energy issues, terrorism DRL provides comprehensive technical financing and economic sanctions, and financial support for democracy and international communications and human rights, which helps prosecute war information policy, and aviation and criminals, promote religious freedom, maritime affairs. monitor free and fair elections, support For further information, contact the Bureau of workers’ rights, encourage the Economic and Business Affairs. Phone, 202–647– establishment of the rule of law, and 7971. Fax, 202–647–5713. facilitate the growth of civil society. Educational and Cultural Affairs The For further information, contact the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at 202–647– Bureau of Educational and Cultural 2126. Affairs administers the principal Diplomatic Security The Bureau of provisions of the Mutual Educational and Diplomatic Security provides a secure Cultural Exchange Act (the Fulbright- environment to promote U.S. interests at Hays Act), including U.S. international home and abroad. The Bureau’s mission educational and cultural exchange includes the protection of the Secretary programs. These programs include the of State and other senior Government prestigious Fulbright Program for officials, residents, and visiting foreign students, scholars, and teachers; the dignitaries and foreign missions in the International Visitor Program, which United States; the conduct of criminal, brings leaders and future leaders from counterintelligence, and personnel other countries to the United States for security investigations; ensuring the consultation with their professional integrity of international travel colleagues; and citizen exchanges documents, sensitive information, through cooperative relationships with

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U.S. nongovernmental organizations that management planning and policies; support the Bureau’s mission. ensures availability of information For further information, contact the Bureau of technology systems and operations, Educational and Cultural Affairs. Phone, 202–203– including information technology 5118. Fax, 202–203–5115. Internet, http:// contingency planning, to support the exchanges.state.gov/. Department’s diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Missions The Office of Foreign management operations; excercises Missions (OFM) operates the motor management responsibility for ensuring vehicles, tax, customs, real property, and that the Department’s information travel programs to regulate and serve the resources meet the business 175 foreign missions in the United States requirements of the Department and and approximately 55,000 foreign provide an effective basis for knowledge mission members and dependents. The sharing and collaboration within the Office is also an advocate for improved Department and with other foreign treatment of U.S. missions and personnel affairs agencies and partners; excercises abroad. It guards the U.S. public against delegated approving authority for the abuses of diplomatic privilege and Secretary of State for development and preserves U.S. security interests. OFM administration of the Department’s maintains regional offices in New York, computer and information security Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, programs and policies. Miami, and Honolulu. Inspector General The Office of For further information, contact the Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts Foreign Missions. Phone, 202–647–3417. Fax, 202– independent audits, inspections, and 647–1919. investigations to promote effective Foreign Service Institute The Foreign management, accountability, and Service Institute of the Department of positive change in the Department of State is the Federal Government’s State, the Broadcasting Board of primary training institution for foreign Governors (BBG), and the foreign affairs affairs related training. In addition to the community. OIG provides leadership to Department of State, the Institute promote integrity, efficiency, provides training for more than 47 other effectiveness, and economy; prevent and governmental agencies. The Institute’s detect waste, fraud, abuse, and more than 475 courses, including some mismanagement; identify vulnerabilities 60 foreign language courses, range in and recommend constructive solutions; length from 1 day to 2 years. The offer expert assistance to improve courses are designed to promote Department and BBG operations; successful performance in each communicate timely, useful information professional assignment, to ease the that facilitates decisionmaking and adjustment to other countries and achieves measurable gains; and keep the cultures, and to enhance the leadership Department, BBG, and Congress and management capabilities of the informed. foreign affairs community. For further information, contact the Office of Inspector General. Phone, 202–663–0340. For further information, contact the Foreign Service Institute. Phone, 703–302–6729. Fax, 703–302– Intelligence and Research The Bureau 7227. coordinates the activities of U.S. Information Resource Management intelligence agencies to ensure that their The Bureau of Information Resource overseas activities are consistent with Management (IRM) provides the U.S. foreign policy objectives and Department with the information interests. It also provides all-source technology it needs to carry out U.S. analysis which gives the Department diplomacy in the information age. The insights and information to foreign policy IRM Bureau is lead by the Department’s questions. It organizes seminars on Chief Information Officer. IRM topics of high interest to policymakers establishes effective information resource and the intelligence community and

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monitors and analyzes foreign public international narcotics matters. The and media opinion on key issues. Bureau also provides guidance on For further information, call 202–647–1080. narcotics control and anticrime matters to chiefs of missions and directs International Information Programs narcotics control coordinators at posts The Bureau of International Information abroad. It communicates or authorizes Programs (IIP) informs, engages, and communication, as appropriate, with influences international audiences about foreign governments on drug control and U.S. policy and society to advance anticrime matters including negotiating, America’s interests. IIP is a leader in concluding, and terminating agreements developing and implementing public relating to international narcotics control diplomacy strategies that measurablly and anticrime programs. influence international audiences For further information, contact the Bureau of through quality programs and cutting- International Narcotics and Law Enforcement edge technologies. IIP provides localized Affairs. Phone, 202–776–8750. Fax, 202–776–8775. contact for U.S. policies and messages, reaching millions worldwide in English, International Organizations The Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Bureau of International Organization Russian, and Spanish. IIP delivers Affairs provides guidance and support for America’s message to the world through U.S. participation in international a number of key products and services. organizations and conferences and These programs reach, and are created formulates and implements U.S. policy strictly for, key international audiences, toward international organizations, with such as U.S. diplomatic missions abroad, particular emphasis on those the media, government officials, opinion organizations which make up the United leaders, and the general public in more Nations system. It provides direction in than 140 countries around the world. the development, coordination, and They include Web and print implementation of U.S. multilateral publications, speaker programs—both policy. traveling (live) and electronic— and For further information, call 202–647–9326. Fax, information resource services. IIP 202–647–2175. orchestrates the State Department’s efforts to counter anti-American International Security and disinformation/propaganda and serves as Nonproliferation The Bureau of the Department’s chief link with other International Security and agencies in coordinating international Nonproliferation (ISN), is responsible for public diplomacy programs. managing a broad range of nonproliferation, counterproliferation, For further information, contact the Bureau of and arms control functions. ISN leads International Information Programs. Phone, 202– 453–8358. Fax, 202–453–8356. Internet, U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of www.state.gov/r/iip/. weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons) and International Narcotics and Law their delivery systems. It is also Enforcement The Bureau of International responsible for the following functions: Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is responsible for developing, coordinating, —spearheading effort to promote and implementing international narcotics international consensus on weapons of control and anticrime assistance mass destruction proliferation through activities of the Department of State. It bilateral and multilateral diplomacy; provides advice on international —addressing weapons of mass narcotics control matters for the Office destruction proliferation threats posed by of Management and Budget, the non-state actors and terrorist groups by National Security Council, and the improving physical security, using White House Office of National Drug interdiction and sanctions, and actively Control Policy and ensures participating in the Proliferation Security implementation of U.S. policy in Initiative;

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—coordinating the implementation of response in the event of a crisis at an key international treaties and overseas post. arrangements, working to make them relevant to today’s security challenges; For further information, fax 202–663–1613. —working closely with the UN, the Oceans, International Environmental, G–8, NATO, the Organization for the and Scientific Affairs The Bureau of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Oceans, and International Environmental International Atomic Energy Agency and and Scientific Affairs (OES) serves as the other international institutions and organizations to reduce and eliminate foreign policy focal point for the threat posed by weapons of mass international oceans, environmental, and destruction; and scientific efforts. OES projects, protects, —supporting efforts of foreign partners and promotes U.S. global interests in to prevent, protect against, and respond these areas by articulating U.S. foreign to the threat or use of weapons of mass policy, encouraging international destruction by terrorists. cooperation, and negotiating treaties and For further information, contact the Bureau of other instruments of international law. International Security and Nonproliferation. Phone, The Bureau serves as the principal 202–647–9868. Fax, 202–736–4863. Internet, adviser to the Secretary of State on www.state.gov/t/isn. international environment, science, and Legal Adviser The Office of the Legal technology matters and takes the lead in Adviser advises the Secretary of State and other Department officials on all coordinating and brokering diverse domestic and international legal matters interests in the interagency process, relating to the Department of State, the where the development of international Foreign Service, and the diplomatic and policies or the negotiation and consular posts abroad. The Office implementation of relevant international lawyers draft, negotiate, and interpret agreements are concerned. The Bureau treaties, international agreements, seeks to promote the peaceful domestic statutes, Departmental exploitation of outer space, develop and regulations, Executive orders, and other coordinate policy on international health legal documents; provide guidance on issues, encourage government to international and domestic law; government scientific cooperation, and represent the United States in meetings prevent the destruction and degradation of international organizations and in of the planet’s natural resources and the international negotiations; work on global environment. domestic and foreign litigation affecting the Department’s interests; and represent For further information, contact the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and the United States before international Scientific Affairs. Phone, 202–647–0978. Fax, 202– tribunals, including the International 647–0217. Court of Justice. Overseas Building Operations The For further information, contact the Office of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Legal Adviser. Phone, 202–647–9598. Fax, 202– (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas 647–7096. Internet, www.state.gov/s/l/. buildings program for the Department of Medical Services The Office of Medical State and the U.S. Government Services develops, manages, and staffs a community serving abroad under the worldwide primary health care system for U.S. citizen employees and their authority of the chiefs of mission. Along eligible dependents residing overseas. In with the input and support of other State support of its overseas operations, the Department bureaus, foreign affairs Office approves and monitors the agencies, and Congress, OBO sets medical evacuation of patients, conducts worldwide priorities for the design, pre-employment and in-service physical construction, acquisition, maintenance, examinations, and provides clinical use, and sale of real properties and the referral and advisory services. The Office use of sales proceeds. OBO also serves also provides for emergency medical as the Single Real Property Manager of

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all overseas facilities under the authority State and private voluntary agencies. It of the chiefs of mission. coordinates U.S. international population policy and promotes its goals through For further information, contact the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Phone, 703–875– bilateral and multilateral cooperation. It 4131. Fax, 703–875–5043. Internet, www.state.gov/ works closely with the U.S. Agency for obo. International Development, which administers U.S. international population Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of programs. The Bureau also coordinates Political-Military Affairs is the principal the Department’s international migration link between the Departments of State policy through bilateral and multilateral and Defense and is the Department of diplomacy. The Bureau oversees efforts State’s lead on operational military to encourage greater participation in matters regarding the global war on humanitarian assistance and refugee terror. The Bureau provides policy resettlement on the part of foreign direction in the areas of international governments and uses humanitarian security, security assistance, military diplomacy to increase access and operations, post-conflict stabilization, assistance to those in need in the and defense trade. Its responsibilities absence of political solutions. include securing base access to support U.S. military forces overseas, For further information, contact the Bureau of coordinating coalition combat and Population, Refugees, and Migration. Phone, 202– 663–1071. Fax, 202–663–1002. Internet, stabilization forces, promoting critical www.state.gov/g/prm. infrastructure protection, regulating arms transfers, promoting responsible U.S. Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the defense trade, combating illegal principal adviser to the U.S. trafficking in small arms and light Government, the President, the Vice weapons, facilitating the education and President, and the Secretary of State on training of international peacekeepers matters of diplomatic procedure and foreign military personnel, managing governed by law or international custom humanitarian mine action programs, and and practice. The Office is responsible coordinating U.S. Government response for the following activities: to chemical, biological, radiological, and —arranging visits of foreign chiefs of natural events and crises overseas. state, heads of government, and other high officials to the United States; For further information, contact the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Phone, 202–647–5104. —organizing credential presentations Fax, 202–736–4413. Internet, www.state.gov/t/pm. of newly arrived Ambassadors, as presented to the President and to the Population, Refugees, and Migration Secretary of State; The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and —operating the President’s guest Migration directs the Department’s house, Blair House; population, refugee, and migration —organizing delegations representing policy development. It administers U.S. the President at official ceremonies contributions to international abroad; organizations for humanitarian —conducting official ceremonial assistance- and protection-related functions and public events; programs on behalf of refugees, conflict —interpreting the official order of victims, and internally displaced persons precedence; and provides U.S. contributions to —conducting outreach programs of nongovernmental organizations which cultural enrichment and substantive provide assistance and protection to briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; refugees abroad. The Bureau oversees —accrediting of over 100,000 the annual admissions of refugees to the embassy, consular, international United States for permanent resettlement, organization, and other foreign working closely with the Department of government personnel, members of their Homeland Security, the Department of families, and domestics throughout the Health and Human Services, and various United States;

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—determining entitlement to and advises on determinations of diplomatic or consular immunity; sanctionability. —publishing of diplomatic and For further information, contact the Bureau of consular lists; Verification and Compliance and Implementation. —resolving problems arising out of Phone, 202–647–5315. Fax, 202–647–1321. Internet, www.state.gov/t/vc. diplomatic or consular immunity, such as legal and police matters; and Foreign Service To a great extent the —approving the opening of embassy future of our country depends on the and consular offices in conjunction with relations we have with other countries, the Office of Foreign Missions. and those relations are conducted principally by the U.S. Foreign Service. For further information, contact the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Phone, 202–647–2663. Fax, 202– Trained representatives stationed 647–1560. worldwide provide the President and the Secretary of State with much of the raw Verification and Compliance The material from which foreign policy is Bureau of Verification and Compliance made and with the recommendations provides oversight, with respect to both that help shape it. policy and resources, on all matters Ambassadors are the personal relating to ensuring and verifying representatives of the President and compliance with international arms report to the President through the control, nonproliferation, and Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full disarmament agreements and responsibility for implementation of U.S. commitments. In this regard, the Bureau foreign policy by any and all U.S. develops verification proposals and Government personnel within their assessments for prospective arms control, country of assignment, except those nonproliferation, and disarmament under military commands. Their agreements and commitments, and responsibilities include negotiating supports and participates in such agreements between the United States negotiations and related consultations. and the host country, explaining and The Bureau is responsible for the disseminating official U.S. policy, and preparation of the President’s Annual maintaining cordial relations with that Report to Congress on Adherence to and country’s government and people. Compliance with Arms Control, A listing of Foreign Service posts, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament together with addresses and telephone Agreements and Commitments, for numbers and key personnel, appears in verifiability assessments for international Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— arms control and non proliferation Guide for Business Representatives, agreements, and for specialized which is for sale by the Superintendent compliance reports required by Senate of Documents, Government Printing resolutions of ratification. The Bureau Office, Washington, DC 20402. participates in interagency groups and United States Diplomatic Offices— organizations that assess, analyze, or Foreign Service review U.S. planned or ongoing policies, (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) programs, and resources that have a direct bearing on verification or Country/Capitol Chief of Mission compliance matters, and it advocates Afghanistan/Kabul ...... Ronald E. Newman Albania/Tirana ...... Marcie B. Ries directly with the intelligence community /Algiers ...... Robert S. Ford and others on verification and Andorra/Andorra La Vella ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. compliance related policy issues. The Angola/Luanda ...... Cynthia G. Efird Antigua and Barbuda/St. John’s Mary Elizabeth Kramer Bureau also assists in the evaluation of (N). transfers related to weapons of mass Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... Lino Gutierrez Armenia/Yerevan ...... John M. Evans destruction (including WMD-capable Australia/Canberra ...... (Vacancy) delivery systems) by foreign entities that Austria/Vienna ...... Susan Rasinski McCaw Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Anne E. Derse are potentially contrary to U.S. Bahamas/Nassau ...... John D. Rood sanctions, laws, and Executive orders, Bahrain/Manama ...... William Monroe

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United States Diplomatic Offices— United States Diplomatic Offices— Foreign Service—Continued Foreign Service—Continued (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office)

Country/Capitol Chief of Mission Country/Capitol Chief of Mission

Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... (Vacancy) Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Carol Van Voorst Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Mary Elizabeth Kramer India/New Delhi ...... David C. Mulford /Minsk ...... George A. Krol Indonesia/Jakarta ...... B. Lynn Pascoe Belgium/Brussels ...... Tom C. Korologos Iraq/ ...... Zalmay Khalilazad Belize/Belize City ...... Robert J. Dieter Ireland/Dublin ...... James Kenny Benin/Cotonou ...... Wayne E. Neill Israel/Tel Aviv ...... Richard Henry Jones Bolivia/La Paz ...... David N. Greenlee Italy/Rome ...... Ronald Spogli Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sara- Douglas L. McElhaney Jamaica/Kingston ...... Brenda La Grange jevo. Johnson Botswana/Gaborone ...... Katherine H. Canavan Japan/Tokyo ...... John Thomas Schieffer Brazil/Brasilia ...... Phil Chicola Jerusalem (C) ...... Jacob Walles Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Emil M. Skodon Jordan/Amman ...... David M. Hale Begawan. Kazakhstan/Almaty ...... John M. Ordway Bulgaria/Sofia ...... Jon Ross Beyrle Kenya/Nairobi ...... William M. Bellamy Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Jeanine E. Jackson Kiribati/Tarawa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Burma/Rangoon ...... Sharon E. Villarosa Korea/Seoul ...... Alexander R. Vershbow Burundi/Bujumbura ...... Patricia Moller Kosovo/Pristina ...... Philip S. Goldberg Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Joseph A. Mussomeli Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Richard LeBaron Cameroon/Yaounde ...... R. Niles Marquardt Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Marie L. Yovanovitch Canada/Ottawa ...... David Horton Wilkins Laos/Vientiane ...... Patricia M. Haslach Cape Verde/Praia ...... Roger D. Pierce Latvia/Riga ...... Catherine Todd Bailey Central African Republic/Bangui James Panos / ...... Jeffrey D. Feltman /N’Djamena ...... Marc McGowan Wall Lesotho/Maseru ...... June Carter Perry Chile/Santiago ...... Craig A. Kelly Liberia/Monrovia ...... Donald E. Booth China/Beijing ...... Clark T. Randt, Jr. Liechtenstein/Vaduz ...... Pamela Willeford Colombia/Bogota ...... William B. Wood Lithuania/Vilnius ...... John A. Cloud Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... (Vacancy) Luxembourg/Luxembourg ...... Ann Louise Wagner Macedonia/Skopje ...... Gillian Arlette Congo, Democratic Republic of Roger A. Meece Milovanovic the/Kinshasa. Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... James D. McGee Congo, Republic of the/ Robert I. Weisburg Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Alan W. Eastham Brazzaville. Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur ...... Christopher J. LaFleur Costa Rica/San Jose ...... Mark Langdale Maldives/Male (N) ...... Jeffrey Lunstead Cote d’Ivoire/Abidjan ...... Aubrey Hooks Mali/Bamako ...... Terence P. McCulley Croatia/Zagreb ...... Robert A. Bradtke Malta/Valletta ...... Molly Hering Bordonaro Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Michael Parmly Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Greta N. Morris Section). Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... Joseph E. LeBaron Curacao/Willemstad ...... Robert E. Sorenson Mauritius/Port Louis ...... (Vacancy) /Nicosia ...... Ronald L. Schlicher Mexico/Mexico City ...... Antonio O. Garza, Jr. Czech Republic/Prague ...... William J. Cabaniss, Jr. Micronesia/Kolonia ...... Suzanne K. Hale Denmark/Copenhagen ...... James Cain Moldova/Chisinau ...... Michael D. Kirby Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... Marguerita D. Ragsdale Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar ...... Mark Clements Minton Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Hans H. Hertell /Rabat ...... Thomas T. Riley mingo. Mozambique/Maputo ...... Helen R. East Timor/Dili ...... Grover Joseph Rees III Meagher La Lime Ecuador/Quito ...... Linda Jewell Namibia/Windhoek ...... Joyce A. Barr Egypt/ ...... Francis Joseph Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Ricciardone, Jr. Nepal/Kathmandu ...... James Moriarty El Salvador/San Salvador ...... H. Douglas Barclay /The Hague ...... (Vacancy) Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... R. Niles Marquardt New Zealand/Wellington ...... William Paul McCormick Eritrea, State of/Asmara ...... Scott H. DeLisi Nicaragua/Managua ...... Paul A. Trivelli Estonia/Tallinn ...... Aldona Wos Niger/Niamey ...... (Vacancy) Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... (Vacancy) Nigeria/Abuja ...... John Campbell Fiji Islands, Republic of/Suva ..... Larry Miles Dinger Norway/Oslo ...... Benson K. Withney Finland/Helsinki ...... (Vacancy) Oman/Muscat ...... Gary Grappo /Paris ...... Craig Roberts Stapleton Pakistan/Islamabad ...... Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... R. Barrie Walkley Panama/Panama ...... William Alan Eaton Gambia/Banjul ...... Joseph D. Stafford Papua New Guinea/Port Robert W. Fitts Georgia/Tbilisi ...... John F. Tefft Moresby. /Berlin ...... William Robert Timken, Paraguay/Asuncion ...... James C. Cason Jr. Peru/Lima ...... James Curtis Struble Ghana/Accra ...... Pamela E. Bridgewater Philippines/Manila ...... (Vacancy) Greece/Athens ...... Charles P. Ries /Warsaw ...... Victor Henderson Ashe Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Mary Elizabeth Kramer /Lisbon ...... Alfred Hoffman Guatemala/Guatemala ...... James M. Derham / ...... Charles Untermeyer Guinea/Conakry ...... Jackson C. McDonald Romania/Bucharest ...... Nicholas F. Taubman Guinea-Bissau/Bissau (N) ...... Janice Jacobs Russian Federation/Moscow ...... William J. Burns Guyana/Georgetown ...... David M. Robinson Rwanda/Kigali ...... Michael R. Arietti Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... Janet E. Sorenson St. Kitts and Nevis/Basseterre Mary Elizabeth Kramer Holy See/Vatican City ...... Francis Rooney (N). Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... Charles Ford St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Mary Elizabeth Kramer Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... James B. Cunningham St. Vincent and the Grenadines/ Mary Elizabeth Kramer Hungary/Budapest ...... April H. Foley Kingstown (N).

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United States Diplomatic Offices— United States Diplomatic Offices— Foreign Service—Continued Foreign Service—Continued (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office)

Country/Capitol Chief of Mission Country/Capitol Chief of Mission

Samoa/Apia ...... William Paul McCormick United Kingdom/London ...... Robert H. Tuttle Sao Tome and Principe/Sao R. Barrie Walkley Uruguay/Montevideo ...... James D. Nealon Tome (N). /Tashkent ...... Jon Purnell Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... James C. Oberwetter Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Robert W. Fitts Senegal/Dakar ...... Janice Jacobs Venezuela/Caracas ...... Serbia and Montenegro/Bel- Michael Christian Polt Vietnam/Hanoi ...... Michael W. Marine grade. Yemen/Sanaa ...... Thomas Charles Seychelles/Victoria ...... (Vacancy) Krajeski Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... Thomas Neil Hull III Zambia/Lusaka ...... Carmen M. Martinez Singapore/Singapore ...... Patricia Louise Herbold Zimbabwe/Harare ...... Christopher W. Dell Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Rodolphe M. Vallee Slovenia/Ljubljana ...... Thomas Bolling Robert- son United States Permanent Diplomatic Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Robert W. Fitts Missions to International Organizations South Africa/Pretoria, Cape (Vacancy) Town. Organization Ambassador Spain/Madrid ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... Jeffrey Lunstead African Union/Addis Ababa ...... (Vacancy) Sudan/Khartoum ...... Cameron Hume (charge /Brussels ...... C. Boyden Gray d’affaires) International Civil Aviation Orga- Edward Stimpson Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Lisa Hughes nization. Swaziland/Mbabane ...... Lewis W. Lucke North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Victoria Nuland Sweden/Stockholm ...... Michael M. Wood tion/Brussels. /Bern ...... Pamela Willeford Organization of American States/ John Maisto Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Margaret Scobey Washington, DC. Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... Richard Hoagland Organization for Economic Co- Connie Morella Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... Michael Retzer operation and Development/ Thailand/Bangkok ...... Ralph Leo Boyce, Jr. Paris. Togolese, Republic/Lome ...... David B. Dunn Organization for Security and Julie Finley Tonga/Nuku’alofa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Co-operation in Europe/Vienna. Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Roy Leslie Austin United Nations/Geneva ...... Kevin E. Moley Spain. United Nations/New York ...... John Robert Bolton Tunisia/ ...... Robert F. Godec United Nations/Vienna ...... Gregory L. Schulte Turkey/Ankara ...... U.S. Mission to United Nations Tony P. Hall Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Tracey Jacobson Agencies for Food and Agri- Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger culture. Uganda/Kampala ...... Steven A. Browning U.S. Mission to United Nations Louise V. Oliver /Kiev ...... William B. Taylor Economic, Scientific and Cul- United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi Michele J. Sison tural Organization/Paris.

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Contracts General inquiries may be Communication, coordinates the directed to the Office of Acquisitions dissemination of public electronic Management (A/LM/AQM), Department information for the Department. The of State, P.O. Box 9115, Arlington, VA main Web site (Internet, www.state.gov) 22219. Phone, 703–875–6060. Fax, and the Secretary’s Web site (Internet, 703–875–6085. secretary.state.gov) provide Diplomatic and Official Passports comprehensive, up-to-date information Inquirers for these types of passports on foreign policy, support for U.S. should contact their respective travel businesses and careers and the offices. The U.S. Government only issues counterterrorism rewards program and these types of passports to individuals much more. traveling abroad in connection with The Bureau of Consular Affairs Web official employment. For additional site (Internet, www.travel.state.gov) information, please refer to the Consular provides travel warnings and other Affairs Web site at www.travel.state.gov. information designed to help Americans Internet, www.travel.state.gov. travel safely abroad, as well as Electronic Access The Department’s information on U.S. passports and visas Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public and downloadable applications. The

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Bureau of Intelligence and Research has found on the FOIA electronic reading established a geographic learning Web room (Internet, foia.state.gov). site (Internet, geography.state.gov), to Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of assist in teaching geography and foreign Americans Abroad For information affairs to students in grades K–12. concerning missing persons, The State Department Electronic emergencies, travel warnings, overseas Reading Room at foia.state.gov uses new voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or information technologies to enable deaths of Americans abroad, contact the access to unique historical records of Office of American Citizens Services and international significance which have Crisis Management, Department of State. been made available to the public under Phone, 888–407–4747 or 317–472–2328 the Freedom of Information Act or as a (international). Internet, special collection. www.travel.state.gov. Correspondence Employment Inquiries about should be directed to this address: employment in the Foreign Service Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of should be directed to HR/REE, Room H– Consular Affairs, Department of State, 518, 2401 E Street NW., Washington, Washington, DC 20520. DC 20522. Phone, 202–261–8888. Internet, www.careers.state.gov. Inquiries regarding international Information about civil service positions parental child abduction or adoption of in the Department of State and copies of foreign children by private U.S. citizens civil service job announcements can be should be directed to the Office of accessed through the Internet, at Children’s Issues, CA/OCS/CI, www.careers.state.gov. Individual Department of State, 2201 C Street NW., questions may be directed to Washington, DC 20520–4818. Phone, [email protected]. Job information staff 888–407–4747 or 317–472–2328 is also available to answer questions (international). Internet, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern time www.travel.state.gov. on Federal workdays. Phone, 202–663– 2176. Passports Passport information is Freedom of Information Act and Privacy available through the Internet, at Act Requests Requests from the public travel.state.gov. For recorded general for Department of State records should passport information, contact any of the be addressed to the Director, Office of Regional Passport Agencies at the IRM Programs and Services, Department telephone numbers listed in the of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty-second Street following table. For passport assistance NW., Washington, DC 20522–6001. and information, you may call the Phone, 202–261–8300. Individuals are National Passport Information Center requested to indicate on the outside of (phone, 900–225–5674; TDD, 900–225– the envelope the statute under which 7778), and you will be charged $0.35 they are requesting access: FOIA per minute to listen to automated REQUEST or PRIVACY REQUEST. messages and $1.05 per minute to speak A public reading room, where with an operator. You may also call the unclassified and declassified documents National Passport Information Center may be inspected, is located in the using a major credit card at a flat rate of Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- $4.95 (phone, 888–362–8668; TDD, second Street NW., Washington, DC 888–498–3648). These rates are subject 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8484. to change. Correspondence should be Directions to the reading room may be directed to the appropriate regional obtained from receptionists at public agency or the Correspondence Branch, entrances to the Department. Passport Services, Room 510, 1111 Additional information about the Nineteenth Street NW., Washington, DC Department’s FOIA program can be 20524.

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Regional Passport Agencies

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Boston, MA ...... Suite 247, 10 Causeway St., 02222 ...... 617–878–0900 Charleston, SC ...... Bldg. 643, 1269 Holland St., 29405 ...... 843–308–5501 Chicago, IL ...... Suite 1803, 230 S. Dearborn St., 60604 ...... 312–341–6020 Honolulu, HI ...... Suite I-330, Box 50185, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., 96850 ...... 808–522–8283 Houston, TX ...... Suite 1400, 1919 Smith St., 77002 ...... 713–751–0294 Los Angeles, CA ...... Suite 1000, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., 90024 ...... 310–575–5700 Miami, FL ...... 3d Fl., 51 SW. 1st Ave., 33130 ...... 305–539–3600 New Orleans, LA ...... Suite 1300, 365 Canal St., 70130 ...... 504–412–2600 New York, NY ...... 10th Fl., 376 Hudson St., 10014 ...... 212–206–3500 Norwalk, CT ...... 50 Washington St., 06856 ...... 203–299–5443 Philadelphia, PA ...... Rm. 103, 200 Chestnut St., 19106 ...... 215–418–5937 Portsmouth, NH ...... National Passport Center, 31 Rochester Ave., 03801 ...... 603–334–0500 San Francisco, CA ...... 5th Fl., 95 Hawthorne St., 94105–3901 ...... 415–538–2700 Seattle, WA ...... Suite 992, 915 2d Ave., 98174 ...... 206–808–5700 Washington, DC ...... Suite 300, 1111 19th St. NW., 20524 ...... 202–647–0518

Public Affairs The Bureau of Public Government Printing Office, Affairs carries out the Secretary’s foreign Washington, DC 20402: policy objectives and helps American Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad and foreign audiences understand the contains important facts on the potential importance of foreign affairs. Led by the dangers of being arrested for illegal Assistant Secretary, who also serves as drugs abroad and the type of assistance Department spokesman, the Bureau that U.S. consular officers can and pursues the State Department’s mission cannot provide. This booklet is free from to inform the American people and the Department of State, Consular foreign audiences and to feed their Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 6831, concerns and comments back to Washington, DC 20520. policymakers. Phone, 202–647–6575. Travel Tips for Older Americans Publications Publications that are contains basic information on passports, produced on a regular basis include currency, health, aid for serious Background Notes and the Foreign problems, and other useful travel tips for senior citizens. Relations series. The Bureau of Public Affairs also occasionally publishes Your Trip Abroad contains basic information on passports, vaccinations, brochures and other publications to unusual travel requirements, dual inform the public of U.S. diplomatic nationality, drugs, modes of travel, efforts. All publications are available on customs, legal requirements, and many the Internet at www.state.gov. other topics for the American tourist, Small Business Information Information business representative, or student about doing business with the traveling overseas. Department of State is available from the A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful Office of Small and Disadvantaged precautions to minimize one’s chances Business Utilization. Phone, 703–875– of becoming a victim of terrorism and 6822. Internet, www.statebuy.gov/ also provides other safety tips. home.htm. Tips for Americans Residing Abroad Telephone Directory The Department’s contains advice for almost 4 million telephone directory is available for sale Americans living in foreign countries. by the Superintendent of Documents, These publications cost between $1.25 Government Printing Office, and $1.75 each. Washington, DC 20402. Regional Tips for Travelers cover Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The customs, currency regulations, dual following pamphlets from the Bureau of nationality, and other local conditions. Consular Affairs are posted on the Currently available are publications for Internet at travel.state.gov and are for the following countries/regions: Canada; sale for $1–$3 (except where noted) by the Caribbean, Central and South the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. America; Mexico; Sub-Saharan Africa;

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the Middle East and North Africa; Russia; Safe are available from the Consumer China; and South Asia and Korea. Information Center, Pueblo, CO 81009 Foreign Entry Requirements; Passports: (50 cents each). Applying for Them the Easy Way; Visas To obtain information on visas Advance Fee Business Scams; Travel for foreigners wishing to enter the United Tips for Students; Tips for Women States, call 202–663–1225. Internet, Traveling Alone; and Travel Smart/Travel www.travel.state.gov.

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