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

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT Chief of Staff ELAINE K. SHOCAS Executive Assistant DAVID M. HALE Special Assistant to the Secretary and KRISTIE A. KENNEY Executive Secretary of the Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal DEIDRE A. DAVIS Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights Chief of Protocol MARY MEL FRENCH Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board THOMAS J. DILAURO Civil Service Ombudsman TED A. BOREK Deputy Secretary of State Under Secretary for Political Affairs THOMAS R. PICKERING Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and STUART E. EIZENSTAT Agricultural Affairs Under Secretary for Arms Control and JOHN HOLUM, Acting International Security Affairs Under Secretary for Management BONNIE R. COHEN Under Secretary for Global Affairs , Acting Counselor of the Department of State WENDY SHERMAN Assistant Secretary for Administration PATRICK R. HAYES, Acting Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs MARY A. RYAN Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security PATRICK F. KENNEDY, Acting Chief Financial Officer RICHARD L. GREENE Director General of the Foreign Service and EDWARD W. GNEHM, Acting Director of Personnel Medical Director, Department of State and CEDRIC E. DUMONT the Foreign Service Executive Secretary, Board of the Foreign JONATHAN MUDGE Service Director of the Foreign Service Institute RUTH A. DAVIS Director, Office of Foreign Missions PATRICK F. KENNEDY, Acting Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, JULIA V. TAFT and Migration Affairs Inspector General JACQUELINE L. WILLIAMS-BRIDGER Director, Policy Planning Staff GREGORY P. CRAIG Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs BARBARA LARKIN Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human JOHN SHATTUCK Rights, and Labor Legal Advisor DAVID R. ANDREWS Assistant Secretary for African Affairs SUSAN E. RICE Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific STANLEY O. ROTH Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs 390

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Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs JEFFREY DAVIDOW Permanent Representative of the United VICTOR MARRERO States of America to the Organization of American States Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs MARTIN S. INDYK Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs KARL F. INDERFURTH Assistant Secretary for Economics and ALAN LARSON Business Affairs Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and PHYLLIS E. OAKLEY Research Assistant Secretary for International PRINCETON LYMAN Organization Affairs Assistant Secretary for Oceans and MELINDA L. KIMBLE, Acting International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and JAMES RUBIN Spokesman for the Department of State Assistant Secretary for -Military ERIC NEWSOM, Acting Affairs Assistant Secretary for International RAND BEERS, Acting Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs U.S. Coordinator, International VONYA B. MCCANN Communications and Information Policy

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

United States Representative to the United BILL RICHARDSON Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the A. PETER BURLEIGH United Nations United States Representative for Special NANCY SODERBERG Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the BETTY E. KING Economic and Social Council United States Representative for U.N. RICHARD SKLAR 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 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

1 A description of the organization and functions of the United Nations can be found under Selected Multilateral Organizations in this book.

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United States participates; and represents the United States at more than 800 international conferences annually.

The Department of State, the senior Affairs is principal adviser to the executive department of the U.S. Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the Government, was established by act of formulation and conduct of foreign July 27, 1789, as the Department of economic policy. Specific areas for Foreign Affairs and was renamed which the Under Secretary is responsible Department of State by act of September include international trade, agriculture, 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note). energy, finance, transportation, and relations with developing countries. Office of the Secretary Bureau for Arms Control and Secretary of State The Secretary of International Security Affairs The State, the principal foreign policy adviser Under Secretary for Arms Control and to the President, is responsible for the International Security Affairs is overall direction, coordination, and responsible for integrating and supervision of U.S. foreign relations and prioritizing the full range of international for the interdepartmental activities of the security, nonproliferation, and arms U.S. Government abroad. The Secretary control issues into the Department’s is the first-ranking member of the conduct of foreign policy. This includes Cabinet, is a member of the National Security Council, and is in charge of the directing and coordinating arms control operations of the Department, including policy; nonproliferation policy (including the Foreign Service. The Office of the nuclear, chemical, biological, missile, Secretary includes the offices of the and conventional weapons proliferation); Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries, export control policy; and certain foreign Assistant Secretaries, Counselor, Legal assistance programs. The Under Adviser, and Inspector General. Some Secretary coordinates diplomatic efforts areas where public purposes are widely to obtain the agreement of all applied are detailed below and on the appropriate countries to the Missile following pages. Technology Control Regime and Economic, Business, and Agricultural exercises various authorities relating to Affairs The Under Secretary for the imposition of proliferation sanctions Economic, Business, and Agricultural as required by U.S. law.

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

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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 COORDINATOR FOR EXECUTIVE CHIEF OF STAFF PROTOCOL COUNTER- SECRETARY PLANNING TERRORISM STAFF

UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC, UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL BUSINESS, AND FOR INTERNATIONAL FOR MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS AFFAIRS

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

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

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

DIPLOMATIC POPULATION, SECURITY REFUGEES, OFFICE OF AND MIGRATION INTER- FOREIGN MISSIONS AMERICAN AFFAIRS

FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT POLICY NEAR EAST AFFAIRS

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

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS

INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

NEWLY INTELLIGENCE INSPECTOR LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENT RESOURCES, LEGAL ADVISOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND GENERAL AFFAIRS STATES SENIOR PLANS, AND POLICY RESEARCH COORDINATOR

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Bureau of Diplomatic Security The foreign mission community in the United Bureau of Diplomatic Security, States to assure appropriate privileges, established under the Omnibus benefits, and services on a reciprocal Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism basis. Act of 1986, as amended (22 U.S.C. For further information, call 202–663–0067. 4803 et seq.), provides a secure environment for conducting American Bureau of Economic and Business diplomacy and promoting American Affairs The Bureau of Economic and interests worldwide. Overseas, the Business Affairs has overall responsibility Bureau develops and maintains effective for formulating and implementing policy security programs for every U.S. Embassy regarding foreign economic matters, and consulate abroad; protects U.S. including resource and food policy, diplomatic personnel and missions from communications and information policy, physical and electronic attack as well as international energy issues, trade, technical espionage; and advises U.S. economic sanctions, international Ambassadors on all security matters. finance and development, and aviation In the United States, the Bureau and maritime affairs. investigates passport and visa fraud, For further information, call 202–647–7971. Fax, conducts personnel security 202–647–5713. investigations, and issues security clearances. It protects the Secretary of Bureau of Finance and Management State, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Policy The Bureau of Finance and Nations, and many cabinet-level foreign Management Policy is directed by the dignitaries and other foreign officials Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who who visit the United States. The Bureau serves as the Department’s Principal also assists foreign embassies and Budget Officer and Management Control consulates in the United States in the Officer and assists in managing the protection of their diplomats and Department and its posts. The CFO, facilities, and arranges for training in the assisted by well-qualified and well- United States for foreign civilian police trained financial management personnel, who then return to their own countries establishes effective management better able to fight terrorism. policies and internal management The Diplomatic Courier Service controls; ensures adequate systems to supervises the worldwide transportation produce useful, reliable, and timely of classified documents and equipment financial and related programmatic contained in diplomatic pouches. information; develops useful financial The Overseas Security Advisory analysis and performance reports; and Council promotes cooperation on integrates budget execution and security-related issues between American accounting functions. private sector interests worldwide and For further information, call 202–647–6778. Fax, the Department of State. 202–736–7010. The Office of Foreign Missions, through the employment of reciprocity, Foreign Service Institute The Foreign ensures equitable treatment for U.S. Service Institute of the Department of diplomatic and consular missions abroad State is the Federal Government’s and their personnel; regulates the primary training institution for officers activities of foreign missions in this and support personnel of the foreign country to protect foreign policy and affairs community. In addition to the national security interests of the United Department of State, the Institute States; protects the American public from provides training for more than 40 other abuses of privileges and immunities by governmental agencies. The Institute’s members of foreign missions; and more than 300 courses, including 60 provides service and assistance to the language courses, range in length from

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one day to 2 years. The courses are as authorized by section 1(g)(3) of State designed to promote successful Department Delegation of Authority No. performance in each professional 145 of February 4, 1980. assignment, to ease the adjustment to For further information, call 202–776–8750. Fax, other countries and cultures, and to 202–776–8775. enhance the leadership and management capabilities of the foreign affairs International Organization Affairs The community. Bureau of International Organization Affairs provides guidance and support for For further information, call 703–302–6729. Fax, United States participation in 703–302–7227. international organizations and Intelligence and Research The Bureau conferences. It leads in the development, of Intelligence and Research coordinates coordination, and implementation of programs of intelligence, analysis, and United States multilateral policy. The research for the Department and Bureau formulates and implements produces current intelligence analyses United States policy toward international essential to foreign policy determination organizations, with particular emphasis and execution. Through its Office of on those organizations which make up Research, the Bureau maintains liaison the United Nations system. with cultural and educational institutions For further information, call 202–647–6400. and oversees contract research and organizes conferences on foreign affairs Legal Advisor The Office of the Legal subjects of high interest to policymakers. Advisor furnishes advice on all legal issues, domestic and international, For further information, call 202–647–1080. arising in the course of the Department’s International Narcotics and Law work. This includes assisting Department Enforcement Affairs The Bureau of principals and policy officers in International Narcotics and Law formulating and implementing the Enforcement Affairs is responsible for foreign affairs policies of the United developing, coordinating, and States, promoting the development of implementing international narcotics international law and its institutions as a control and anticrime assistance fundamental element of those policies, activities of the Department of State as and managing the Department and the authorized under sections 481 and 482 Foreign Service. of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as For further information, call 202–647–8323. Fax, amended (22 U.S.C. 2291, 2292). It is 202–736–7508. the principal point of contact and provides advice on international Medical Services The Office of Medical narcotics control matters for the Office Services develops, manages, and staffs a of Management and Budget, the worldwide primary health care system National Security Council, and the for U.S. citizen employees, and their White House Office of National Drug eligible dependents, residing overseas. Control Policy in ensuring Agencies which participate in this implementation of U.S. policy in medical program include the international narcotics matters. Department of State, the U.S. The Bureau provides guidance on Information Agency, the U.S. Agency for narcotics control and anticrime matters International Development, and over 48 to chiefs of missions and directs other foreign affairs agencies and offices. narcotics control coordinators at posts In support of its overseas operations, the abroad; communicates or authorizes Office approves and monitors the communication, as appropriate with medical evacuation of patients, conducts foreign governments, on drug control pre-employment and in-service physical and anticrime matters including examinations, and provides clinical negotiating, concluding, and terminating referral and advisory services. agreements relating to international Domestically, the Office offers narcotics control and anticrime programs occupational health care, as well as

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numerous health education and health significant technologies; and promoting maintenance programs. responsible U.S. defense trade.

For further information, call 202–647–3617. For further information, call 202–647–6968. Consular Affairs The Bureau of Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the Consular Affairs, under the direction of principal adviser to the U.S. the Assistant Secretary, is responsible for Government, the President, the Vice the administration and enforcement of President, and the Secretary of State on the provisions of the immigration and matters of diplomatic procedure nationality laws, insofar as they concern governed by law or international custom the Department and the Foreign Service, and practice. The Office is responsible for the issuance of passports and visas for: and related services, and for the —visits of foreign chiefs of state, heads protection and welfare of American of government, and other high officials citizens and interests abroad. to the United States; —organizing credential presentations Approximately 6 million passports a year of newly arrived Ambassadors to the are issued by the Passport Office of the President and to the Secretary of State. Bureau, which has agencies in , —operation of the President’s guest Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los house, Blair House; Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New —delegations representing the York, , San Francisco, President at official ceremonies abroad; Seattle, Stamford, and Washington, DC. —conduct of official ceremonial For further information, see Sources of Information. functions and public events; —official interpretation of the Order of Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of Precedence; Political-Military Affairs provides —conducting an outreach program of guidance and coordinates policy cultural enrichment and substantive formulation on national security issues, briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; including: nonproliferation of weapons —accreditation of over 100,000 of mass destruction and missile embassy, consular, international technology; nuclear and conventional organization, and other foreign arms control; defense relations and government personnel, members of their security assistance; complex contingency families, and domestics throughout the operations and consequence United States; management of weapons of mass —determining entitlement to destruction incidents; and export diplomatic or consular immunity; —publication of diplomatic and controls. It acts as the Department’s consular lists; primary liaison with the Department of —resolution of problems arising out of Defense. The Bureau also participates in diplomatic or consular immunity such as all major arms control, nonproliferation, legal and police matters; and and other security-related negotiations. —approving the opening of embassy The Bureau’s major activities are and consular offices in conjunction with designed to further U.S. national security the Office of Foreign Missions. objectives by: stabilizing regional For further information, call 202–647–2663. Fax, military balances through negotiations 202–647–1560. and security assistance; negotiating Oceans, Environment, and Science The reductions in global inventories of Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and weapons of mass destruction and Science (OES) serves as the foreign curbing their proliferation; maintaining policy focal point for international global access for U.S. military forces; oceans, environmental, and scientific managing humanitarian assistance and efforts. OES projects, protects, and demining programs; inhibiting promotes U.S. global interests in these adversaries’ access to militarily areas by articulating U.S. foreign policy,

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encouraging international cooperation, permanent resettlement, working closely and negotiating treaties and other with the Immigration and Naturalization instruments of international law. The Service, the Department of Health and Bureau serves as the principal adviser to Human Services, and various State and the Secretary of State on international private voluntary agencies. PRM environment, science, and technology coordinates U.S. international population matters and takes the lead in policy and promotes its goals through coordinating and brokering diverse bilateral and multilateral cooperation. It interests in the interagency process, works closely with the U.S. Agency for where the development of international International Development, which policies or the negotiation and administers U.S. international population implementation of relevant international programs. The Bureau also coordinates agreements are concerned. The Bureau U.S. international migration policy seeks to promote the peaceful within the U.S. Government and through exploitation of outer space, protect bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. public health from reemerging infectious diseases, encourage government to For further information, call 202–663–1071. government scientific cooperation, and Internet, http://www.state.gov/www/global/prm/ index.html/. prevent the destruction and degradation of the planet’s natural resources and the Public Affairs The Bureau of Public global environment. Affairs directs public affairs activities in For further information, call 202–647–0978. Fax, the Department and provides 202–647–0217. information about the goals, developments, and implementation of Population, Refugees, and Migration U.S. foreign policy to the American The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and people. The Assistant Secretary for Migration (PRM) has primary Public Affairs serves as the principal responsibility for formulating U.S. adviser to the Secretary, other senior policies on population, refugees, and Department officials, and other U.S. migration and for administering U.S. Government agencies on all public refugee assistance and admissions affairs, media relations, and information programs. PRM administers and monitors aspects of the Department’s U.S. contributions to multilateral responsibilities to the U.S. public. The organizations and nongovernmental Bureau also serves as a liaison between organizations to provide assistance and the Department and State and local protection to refugees abroad. The government officials. Bureau oversees the annual admissions of refugees to the United States for For further information, call 202–647–6575.

Foreign Service

To a great extent the future of our developments that have a bearing on the country depends on the relations we welfare and security of the American have with other countries, and those people. These trained representatives relations are conducted principally by provide the President and the Secretary the United States Foreign Service. of State with much of the raw material Presently, representatives at 164 from which foreign policy is made and Embassies, 12 missions, 1 U.S. liaison with the recommendations that help office, 1 U.S. interests section, 66 shape it. consulates general, 14 consulates, 3 The Ambassador is the personal branch offices, and 45 consular agencies representative of the President and throughout the world report to the State reports to the President through the Department on the multitude of foreign Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full

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responsibility for implementation of U.S. United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ foreign policy by any and all U.S. Foreign Service—Continued Government personnel within their (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) country of assignment, except those Country/Embassy Ambassador under military commands. Their Cote d'Ivoire/ ...... Lannon Walker responsibilities include negotiating Croatia/Zagreb ...... William D. Montgomery agreements between the United States Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Michael G. Kozak Section). and the host country, explaining and /Nicosia ...... Kenneth C. Brill disseminating official U.S. policy, and Czech Republic/Prague ...... Jenonne R. Walker Denmark/Copenhagen ...... Edward E. Elson maintaining cordial relations with that Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... Lange Schermerhorn country’s government and people. Dominica/Roseau (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde A listing of Foreign Service posts, Dominican Republic/Santo Do- (Vacancy) mingo. together with addresses and telephone Ecuador/Quito ...... Leslie M. Alexander numbers and key personnel, appears in Egypt/Cairo ...... Daniel C. Kurtzer El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Anne W. Patterson Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— Equatorial /Malabo ...... Charles H. Twining Guide for Business Representatives, Eritrea/Asmara ...... (Vacancy) which is for sale by the Superintendent Estonia/Tallinn ...... (Vacancy) Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... David H. Shinn of Documents, Government Printing Fiji/Suva ...... (Vacancy) Office, Washington, DC 20402. Finland/Helsinki ...... (Vacancy) /Paris ...... Felix Rohatyn United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... Elizabeth Raspolic Gambia/Banjul ...... Gerald W. Scott Foreign Service Georgia/Tbilisi ...... William H. Courtney (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) /Bonn ...... John C. Kornblum / ...... Edward Brynn Country/Embassy Ambassador Greece/Athens ...... R. Nicholas Burns Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Albania/Tirana ...... Marisa R. Lino /Guatemala ...... Donald J. Planty Algeria/Algiers ...... Cameron R. Hume Guinea/ ...... Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. Angola/Luanda ...... Donald K. Steinberg Guinea-Bissau/Bissau ...... Peggy Blackford Antigua and Barbuda/St. John's Jeanette W. Hyde Guyana/Georgetown ...... James F. Mack (N). Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... Timothy M. Carney Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... (Vacancy) Holy See/Vatican City ...... Corinne Claiborne Armenia/Yerevan ...... Peter Tomsen Boggs Australia/Canberra ...... Genta Hawkins Holmes Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... James F. Creagan Austria/Vienna ...... Kathryn W. Hall Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... Richard Boucher Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Stanley T. Escudero Hungary/Budapest ...... Peter F. Tufo Bahamas/Nassau ...... Sidney Williams Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Day Mount /Manama ...... /New Delhi ...... Richard F. Celeste Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... John C. Holzman Indonesia/Jakarta ...... J. Stapleton Roy Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Ireland/Dublin ...... Jean K. Smith Belarus/Minsk ...... Daniel W. Speckhard Israel/Tel Aviv ...... Edward S. Walker, Jr. /Brussels ...... Alan J. Blinken /Rome ...... Thomas M. Foglietta Belize/Belize City ...... Carolyn Curiel /Kingston ...... Jerome G. Cooper Benin/Cotonou ...... John M. Yates Japan/Tokyo ...... Thomas S. Foley Bolivia/La Paz ...... Donna J. Hrinak Jerusalem ...... John E. Herbst /Sara- Richard D. Kauzlarich / ...... Wesley W. Egan jevo. Kazakstan/Almaty ...... A. Elizabeth Jones Botswana/Gaborone ...... Robert Krueger / ...... Brazil/Brasilia ...... Melvyn Levitsky Kiribati/Tarawa (N) ...... Joan M. Plaisted Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Glen R. Rase Korea/Seoul ...... Steven W. Bosworth Begawan. Kuwait/Kuwait ...... James A. Larocco Bulgaria/ ...... Avis T. Bohlen Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Anne Marie Sigmund Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Sharon P. Wilkinson Laos/Vientiane ...... Wendy Chamberlin /Bujumbura ...... Morris N. Hughes, Jr. Latvia/Riga ...... Larry C. Napper Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Kenneth M. Quinn Lebanon/Beirut ...... Richard H. Jones Cameroon/Yaounde ...... Charles H. Twining Lesotho/Maseru ...... Bismarck Myrick Canada/Ottawa ...... Gordon Giffen Liberia/Monrovia ...... William B. Milam Cape Verde/Praia ...... Lawrence N. Benedict Lithuania/Vilnius ...... Keith C. Smith Central African Republic/Bangui Mosina H. Jordan /Luxembourg ...... Clay Constantinou Chad/N'Djamena ...... David C. Halsted / ...... (Vacancy) Chile/ ...... Gabriel Guerra- Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Amelia E. Shippy Mondragon Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur ...... John L. Malott China, People's Republic of/Bei- Jim Sasser Maldives/Male (N) ...... Shaun E. Donnelly jing. Mali/Bamako ...... David P. Rawson Colombia/Bogota ...... Myles R.R. Frechette Malta/Valletta ...... Kathryn L. Haycock- Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... Harold W. Geisel Proffitt Congo, Democratic Republic of Daniel H. Simpson Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Joan M. Plaisted the (formerly )/. Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... Timberlake Foster Congo, Republic of/Brazzaville ... Aubrey Hooks Mauritius/Port Louis ...... Harold W. Geisel Costa Rica/San Jose ...... Thomas J. Dodd /Mexico City ...... (Vacancy)

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United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ 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/Embassy Ambassador Country/Embassy Ambassador

Micronesia/Kolonia ...... (Vacancy) Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Dennis K. Hays /Chisinau ...... John T. Stewart Swaziland/Mbabane ...... Alan R. McKee Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar ...... Alphonse F. La Porta Sweden/Stockholm ...... Lyndon L. Olson, Jr. Morocco/Rabat ...... Edward M. Gabriel Switzerland/Bern ...... Madeleine M. Kunin Mozambique/Maputo ...... Brian D. Curran Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Christopher W.S. Ross Namibia/Windhoek ...... George F. Ward, Jr. Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... R. Grant Smith Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... (Vacancy) /Dar es Salaam ...... (Vacancy) Nepal/Kathmandu ...... Ralph Frank Thailand/Bangkok ...... William H. Itoh Netherlands/The Hague ...... K. Terry Dornbush /Lome ...... New Zealand/Wellington ...... Josiah H. Beeman Tonga/Nuku'alofa (N) ...... (Vacancy) Nicaragua/Managua ...... Lino Gutierrez Niger/Niamey ...... Charles O. Cecil Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Edward E. Shumaker III Nigeria/Abuja ...... William H. Twaddell Spain. Norway/Oslo ...... David B. Hermelin Tunisia/Tunis ...... Robin L. Raphel Oman/Muscat ...... Frances D. Cook Turkey/Ankara ...... Mark R. Barris /Islamabad ...... Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Michael W. Cotter Panama/Panama ...... William J. Hughes Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... (Vacancy) Papua New Guinea/Port Arma Jane Karaer Uganda/Kampala ...... Nancy Jo Powell Moresby. /Kiev ...... Steven K. Pifer Paraguay/Asuncion ...... Maura Harty United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi David C. Litt Peru/Lima ...... Dennis C. Jett United Kingdom/ ...... Philip Lader Philippines/Manila ...... Thomas Hubbard Uruguay/Montevideo ...... Christopher C. Ashby Poland/Warsaw ...... Daniel Fried Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... Joseph A. Presel Portugal/Lisbon ...... Gerald S. McGowan Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Arma Jane Karaer / ...... Patrick N. Theros /Caracas ...... John F. Maisto Romania/ ...... James C. Rosapepe Western Samoa/Apia ...... Josiah H. Beeman Russian Federation/ ...... James F. Collins Yemen/Sanaa ...... Barbara K. Bodine / ...... Robert E. Gribbin III / ...... St. Kitts and Nevis (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde / ...... Tom McDonald St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde St. Vincent and the Grenadines Jeanette W. Hyde United States Permanent Diplomatic (N). Sao Tome and Principe/Sao Elizabeth Raspolic Missions to International Organizations Tome (N). Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... Wyche Fowler, Jr. Organization Ambassador / ...... Dane Farnsworth Smith, Jr. /Brussels ...... A. Vernon Weaver Seychelles/Victoria ...... Harold W. Geisel North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Alexander R. Vershbow / ...... John L. Hirsch tion/Brussels. Singapore/Singapore ...... Steven J. Green Organization of American States/ Victor Marrero Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Ralph R. Johnson Washington, DC. /Ljubljana ...... Victor Jackovich Organization for Economic Co- Amy L. Bondurant Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Arma Jane Karaer operation and Development/ /Pretoria ...... James A. Joseph Paris. Spain/Madrid ...... (Vacancy) United Nations/Geneva ...... George E. Moose Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... Shaun E. Donnelly United Nations/New York ...... Bill Richardson Sudan/Khartoum ...... (Vacancy) United Nations/Vienna ...... John B. Ritch III

Sources of Information

Audiovisual Materials The Bureau of for $9 in VHS and $12.50 in 3/4-inch Consular Affairs has a 12-minute format, plus a $3 mailing and handling videotape on the safety of international fee from Video Transfer, Inc., 5710 travel. ‘‘Traveling Abroad More Safely’’ Arundel Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. provides general practical advice to U.S. Phone, 301–881–0270. Fax, 301–770– citizen travelers on avoiding the hazards 9131. of foreign travel. It includes steps to take Contracts General inquiries may be prior to departure, ways to protect directed to the Office of Acquisitions (A/ against theft and legal problems, and OPR/ACQ), Department of State, ways U.S. embassies and consulates can Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 703– assist U.S. citizens who encounter 875–6060. Fax, 703–875–6085. difficulty abroad. The tape is available

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Diplomatic and Official Passports careers, the counterterrorism rewards Department employees may use program, and much more. diplomatic and official passports only as The State Department Electronic long as they are retained in the position Reading Room at http://foia.state.gov/ or status for which originally issued. uses new information technologies to Section 51.4 of title 22 of the Code of enable access to unique historical Federal Regulations states that such records of international significance passports must be returned upon which have been made available to the termination of the bearer’s diplomatic or public under the Freedom of Information official status. Act or as a special collection. In accordance with the Department’s Employment Inquiries about Foreign Affairs Manual (3 FAM 784), it is employment in the Foreign Service the responsibility of administrative should be directed to: PER/REE/REC, officers to ensure that Form DS–8A P.O. Box 9317, Arlington, VA 22210. includes a record of the disposition of Phone, 703–875–7490. Inquiries about passports issued to separating or retiring civil service positions in the Department employees and their dependents. This of State should be directed to: PER/CSP/ includes all diplomatic and official POD, P.O. Box 18657, Washington, DC passports, as well as any tourist passports 20036–8657. The Department’s Civil for which the employee has been Service Employment Information Office reimbursed by the Department. is located inside the D Street north lobby Because of the possibility of misuse of entrance of the Department of State these documents, it is important that all building, Washington, DC. The Civil offices establish and maintain effective Service Personnel Office provides a 24- hour job information line. Phone, 202– control over passport use. These 647–7284. passports are normally destroyed by Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Passport Services; however, they may be Act Requests Requests from the public canceled and returned as mementos if for Department of State records should requested. be addressed to the Director, Office of Diplomatic passports may not be used IRM Programs and Service, Department by employees for strictly personal travel. of State, Room 1512, 2201 C Street Regulations permit their use for NW., Washington, DC 20520–1512. incidental personal travel related to an Phone, 202–647–8300. Individuals are official assignment if the host requested to indicate on the outside of government does not object. However, if the envelope the statute under which employees or their dependents prefer to they are requesting access: FOIA travel on a regular tourist passport in REQUEST or PRIVACY REQUEST. connection with official travel, they may Any identifiable Department of State apply by paying the regular passport fees document can be requested under the and claiming reimbursement on their Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. travel voucher. 552). Requesters should provide as much Inquiries on these matters should be identifying information as possible about directed to Passport Services, Special the document, such as subject matter, Issuance Agency. Phone, 202–955–0200. timeframe, originator of the information, Electronic Access The Department’s or any other helpful data, to assist the , Office of Public Department in locating it. Please include Communication, coordinates the your daytime telephone number. dissemination of public electronic Only persons who are U.S. citizens or information for the Department. The aliens who are lawfully admitted to the main Web site at http://www.state.gov/ United States for permanent residence and the Secretary’s Web site at http:// can request information under the secretary.state.gov/ provide Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). Under this comprehensive, up-to-date information act, individuals may request access to on foreign policy, travel and consular records that are maintained under the information, support for U.S. businesses, individual’s name or some other

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personally identifiable symbol. Internet, http://travel.state.gov/. Descriptions of record systems from Correspondence should be directed to: which documents can be retrieved by Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of the individual’s name are published in Consular Affairs, Department of State, the Federal Register, copies of which are Washington, DC 20520. available from the Director, Office of Inquiries regarding international IRM Programs and Services. To expedite parental child abduction or adoption of processing of requests, individuals foreign children by private U.S. citizens should specify the system of records they should be directed to the Office of wish to have searched and should Children’s Issues, CA/OCS/CI, Room provide the following identifying 4811, Department of State, Washington, information: full name; aliases (if any); DC 20520. Phone, 202–647–2688. Fax, date and place of birth; and 202–647–2835. Internet, http:// circumstances, including approximate travel.state.gov/. time period, which would have led to Passports Passport information is the creation of the record. available through the Internet, at http:// A public reading room, where travel.state.gov/. For recorded general unclassified and declassified documents passport information, contact any of the may be inspected, is located in the Regional Passport Agencies at the Department of State, 2201 C Street NW., telephone numbers listed in the Washington, DC. Phone, 202–647–8300. following table. For passport assistance Directions to the reading room may be and information, you may call the obtained from receptionists at public National Passport Information Center entrances to the Department. (phone, 900–225–5674; TDD, 900–225– Additional information about the 7778) and you will be charged 35 cents Department’s FOIA program can be per minute to listen to automated found on the FOIA Electronic Reading messages and $1.05 per minute to speak Room Web site at http://foia.state.gov/. with an operator. You may also call the Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of National Passport Information Center Americans Abroad For information using a major credit card at a flat rate of concerning missing persons, $4.95 (phone, 888–362–8668; TDD, emergencies, travel warnings, overseas 888–498–3648). These rates are subject voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or to change. Correspondence should be deaths of Americans abroad, contact the directed to the appropriate Regional Office of American Citizens Services and Agency or the Correspondence Branch, Crisis Management, Department of State. Passport Services, Room 510, 1111 Phone, 202–647–5225. Fax, 202–647– Nineteenth Street NW., Washington, DC 3732. Fax-on-demand, 202–647–3000. 20524. Regional Passport Agencies

City Address Telephone

Boston, MA ...... Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Bldg., 02222 ...... 617±565±6990 Chicago, IL ...... Federal Bldg., 60604 ...... 312±341±6020 Honolulu, HI ...... Federal Bldg., 96850 ...... 808±522±8283 Houston, TX ...... 1919 Smith St., 77002 ...... 713±209±3153 Los Angeles, CA ...... 11000 Wilshire Blvd., 90024±3615 ...... 310±575±5700 Miami, FL ...... Federal Office Bldg., 33130 ...... 305±539±3600 National Passport Center ...... 31 Rochester Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801±2900 ...... 603±334±0500 New Orleans, LA ...... 701 Loyola Ave., 70113 ...... 504±589±6161 New York, NY ...... 376 Hudson St., 10014 ...... 212±206±3500 Philadelphia, PA ...... Federal Bldg., 19106 ...... 215±597±7480 San Francisco, CA ...... 95 Hawthorne St., 94105±3901 ...... 415±538±2700 Seattle, WA ...... Federal Bldg., 98174 ...... 206±808±5700 Stamford, CT ...... 1 Landmark Sq., 06901 ...... 203±325±4401 Washington, DC ...... 1111 19th St. NW., 20524 ...... 202±647±0518

Publications The Department’s Bureau publications on the Department and of Public Affairs produces a variety of foreign policy, including the official U.S.

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documentary series, Foreign Relations of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. the United States, and two publications Government Printing Office, on U.S. foreign policy, Dispatch and Washington, DC 20402: Background Notes. Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad The series Foreign Relations of the contains important facts on the potential United States, published since 1861 in dangers of being arrested for illegal over 300 volumes, constitutes the official drugs abroad and the type of assistance documentary record of U.S. foreign that U.S. consular officers can and policy. It is the most extensive and most cannot provide. This booklet is free from near-current publication of diplomatic the Department of State, Consular papers in the world. The Office of the Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 6831, Historian has completed the 75 print Washington, DC 20520. volumes and microfiche supplements Travel Tips for Older Americans documenting the foreign policy of the contains basic information on passports, Eisenhower administration (1953–1960). currency, health, aid for serious Publication of 32 print volumes and problems, and other useful travel tips for supplements on the foreign policy of the senior citizens. Kennedy administration (1961–1963) is Your Trip Abroad ($1.25) contains nearing completion. Of 34 volumes basic information on passports, documenting the Johnson administration vaccinations, unusual travel (1964–1968), 8 were published by 1997. requirements, dual nationality, drugs, U.S. Foreign Affairs on CD–ROM provides a wealth of foreign policy modes of travel, customs, legal information such as Dispatch magazine requirements, and many other topics for (the monthly foreign policy magazine the American tourist, business issued by the Department of State), representative, or student traveling Background Notes, speeches and overseas. testimonies by senior State Department A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful officials, reports to Congress, precautions to minimize one’s chances miscellaneous policy publications, and of becoming a victim of terrorism and daily press briefings in a searchable also provides other safety tips. format. Single copies are available from Tips for Americans Residing Abroad the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. contains advice for more than 2 million Government Printing Office, P.O. Box Americans living in foreign countries. 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954. Regional Tips for Travelers cover Phone, 202–512–1800. Fax, 202–512– customs, currency regulations, dual 2233. Payments can be made by check nationality, and other local conditions. (payable to the Superintendent of Currently available are: Tips for Travelers Documents), GPO Deposit Account, to Canada; Tips for Travelers to the VISA, or MasterCard. Caribbean; Tips for Travelers to Mexico; Reading Room To review declassified Tips for Travelers to the Middle East and Department documents, contact the North Africa ($1.50); Tips for Travelers receptionists at the public entrance to to the People’s Republic of China; Tips the Department of State, 2201 C Street for Travelers to and the Newly NW., Washington, DC, for the specific Independent States; Tips for Travelers to location. Phone, 202–647–8484. South Asia; Tips for Travelers to Central Telephone Directory The Department’s and South America; and Tips for telephone directory is available for sale Travelers to Sub-Saharan Africa ($1.50). by the Superintendent of Documents, Foreign Entry Requirements contains Government Printing Office, visa and other entry requirements of Washington, DC 20402. foreign countries. Passports: Applying for Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The Them the Easy Way contains information following pamphlets from the Bureau of on where, how, and when to apply for Consular Affairs are posted on the passports. Order these from the Internet at http://travel.state.gov/ and are Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, for sale for $1 (except where noted) by CO 81009.

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Visas To obtain information on visas States, call 202–663–1225. Internet, for foreigners wishing to enter the United http://travel.state.gov/.

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. Fax, 202–647–7120. Internet, http://www.state.gov/.

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