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

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE Deputy Secretary of State JOHN D. NEGROPONTE Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for DELL L. DAILEY Counterterrorism U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator MARK DYBUL Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and RANDALL M. FORT Research Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs JEFFREY T. BERGNER Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board JACQUELINE RATNER Chief of Protocol NANCY GOODMAN BRINKER Chief of Staff BRIAN GUNDERSON Civil Service Ombudsman FREDERICK A. WHITTINGTON Counselor of the Department of State ELLIOTT COHEN Director of the Office of Civil Rights JOHN M. ROBINSON Director, Policy Planning Staff DAVID GORDON Inspector General WILLIAM A. ROOD, Acting Legal Adviser JOHN B. BELLINGER III Special Assistant to the Secretary and DANIEL B. SMITH Executive Secretary of the Department Under Secretary for Arms Control and JOHN C. ROOD, Acting International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary for International PATRICIA A. MCNERNEY, Acting Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary for Political-Military STEPHEN D. MULL, Acting Affairs Assistant Secretary for Verification, PAULA A. DESUTTER Compliance, and Implementation Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and REUBEN JEFFERY III Agricultural Affairs Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, DANIEL S. SULLIVAN and Business Affairs Under Secretary for Democracy and Global PAULA J. DOBRIANSKY Affairs Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human DAVID J. KRAMER Rights, and Labor Assistant Secretary for Oceans and CLAUDIA A. MCMURRAY International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Population, SAMUEL M. WITTEN Refugees, and Migration Under Secretary for Management PATRICK F. KENNEDY Assistant Secretary for Administration RAJKUMAR CHELLARAJ Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs JANICE L. JACOBS, Acting 294

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Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security GREGORY B. STARR, Acting and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions Assistant Secretary for Information SUSAN SWART Resource Management and Chief Information Officer Assistant Secretary for Resource BRADFORD R. HIGGINS Management and Chief Financial Officer Director and Chief Operating Officer of RICHARD SHINNICK, Acting Overseas Buildings Operations Director General of the Foreign Service HARRY K. THOMAS, JR. 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 DANIEL FRIED, Acting Assistant Secretary for African Affairs JENDAYI E. FRAZER Assistant Secretary for East Asian and CHRISTOPHER R. HILL Pacific Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and KURT VOLKER, Acting Eurasian Affairs Assistant Secretary for International DAVID JOHNSON Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary for Western THOMAS A. SHANNON, JR. Hemisphere Affairs Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs C. DAVID WELCH Assistant Secretary for South and Central RICHARD A. BOUCHER Asian Affairs Coordinator for Afghanistan PATRICK S. MOON Assistant Secretary for International KRISTEN SILVERBERG Organization Affairs Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and (VACANCY) Public Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and SEAN IAN MCCORMACK Spokesman for the Department of State Assistant Secretary for Educational and GOLI AMERI Cultural Affairs Coordinator, International Information JEREMY CURTIN Programs Permanent Representative of the United HECTOR E. MORALES, JR. States of America to the Organization of American States

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

United States Permanent Representative to the ZALMAY KHALILZAD United Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the ALEJANDRO DANIEL WOLFF United Nations United States Representative for Special (VACANCY) Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the (VACANCY) Economic and Social Council United States Representative for U.N. (VACANCY) Management and Reform [For the Department of State statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 5]

The Department of State advises the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy 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 Asian Affairs, and Western Hemisphere by act of July 27, 1789, as the Affairs. Department of Foreign Affairs and was Administration The Bureau of renamed Department of State by act of Administration provides support September 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 programs and services to Department of note). State and U.S. embassies and consulates. Secretary of State The Secretary of These functions include administrative State is responsible for the overall policy, domestic emergency direction, coordination, and supervision management, and management of of U.S. foreign relations and for the owned or leased facilities in the United States; procurement, supply, travel, and interdepartmental activities of the U.S. transportation support; diplomatic Government abroad. The Secretary is the pouch, domestic mail, official records, first-ranking member of the Cabinet, is a publishing, library, and language member of the National Security services; support to the schools abroad Council, and is in charge of the that educate dependents of U.S. operations of the Department, including Government employees assigned to the Foreign Service. diplomatic and consular missions; and Regional Bureaus Foreign affairs small and disadvantaged business activities worldwide are handled by the utilization. Direct services to the public geographic bureaus, which include the and other Government agencies include: Bureaus of African Affairs, European and authenticating documents used abroad Eurasian Affairs, East Asian and Pacific for legal and business purposes; Affairs, Near East Affairs, South and responding to requests under 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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DIRECTOR SECRETARY PROGRAMS INFORMATION EXECUTIVE SECRETARY INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

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

AFFAIRS SECRETARY OF STATE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS ASSISTANT COMPLIANCE SECRETARY LEGISLATIVE ARMS CONTROL VERIFICATION AND POLITICAL MILITARY NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF STATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARMS CONTROL AND CHIEF OF STAFF UNDER SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY LEGAL ADVISER AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS ECONOMIC, ENERGY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY, AND ADMINISTRATOR DIRECTOR OFFICE OF UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASIAN AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS SOUTH AND CENTRAL STAFF ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY 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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Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts Democracy Fund, DRL provides and providing the electronic reading comprehensive technical and financial room for public reference to State support for democracy and human Department records; and determining rights, which helps prosecute war use of the diplomatic reception rooms of criminals, promote religious freedom, the Harry S Truman headquarters monitor free and fair elections, support building in Washington, DC. workers’ rights, encourage the For further information, contact the Bureau of establishment of the rule of law, and Administration at 703–875–7000. facilitate the growth of civil society. It participates in the Inter-Governmental Consular Affairs The Bureau of Forum on Corporate Social Consular Affairs is responsible for the Responsibility, encouraging governments protection and welfare of American and private industry to eliminate child citizens and interests abroad; the labor. DRL also works to advance liberty administration and enforcement of the in and access to electronic provisions of the immigration and communication through the Secretary’s nationality laws insofar as they concern Task Force on Global Internet Freedom. the Department of State and Foreign Service; and the issuance of passports For further information, contact the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at 202–647– and visas and related services. 2126. Approximately 18 million passports a year are issued by the Office of Passport Diplomatic Security The Bureau of Services of the Bureau at the processing Diplomatic Security provides a secure centers in Portsmouth, NH, and environment to promote U.S. interests at Charleston, SC, and the regional home and abroad. The Bureau’s mission agencies in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; includes the protection of the Secretary Aurora, Colorado; Honolulu, HI; of State and other senior Government Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, officials, resident and visiting foreign FL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; dignitaries, and foreign missions in the Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; United States; the conduct of criminal, Seattle, WA; Norwalk, CT; Stamford, CT; counterintelligence, and personnel and Washington, DC. In addition, the security investigations; ensuring the Bureau helps secure America’s borders integrity of international travel against entry by terrorists or narco- documents, sensitive information, traffickers, facilitates international classified processing equipment, and adoptions, and supports parents whose management information systems; the children have been abducted abroad. physical and technical protection of domestic and overseas facilities of the For further information, visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs Web site at www.travel.state.gov. Department of State; providing professional law enforcement and Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor security training to U.S. and foreign The Bureau of Democracy, Human personnel; and a comprehensive, Rights, and Labor (DRL) is responsible multifaceted overseas security program for developing and implementing U.S. serving the needs of U.S. missions and policy on democracy, human rights, the resident U.S. citizens and business labor, and religious freedom. DRL communities. Through the Office of dialogs with foreign governments and Foreign Missions, the Bureau regulates builds partnerships in multilateral the domestic activities of the foreign organizations in order to build global diplomatic community in the areas of consensus in support of democratic rule taxation, real property acquisitions, and human rights. It prepares the annual motor vehicle operation, domestic travel, Country Reports on Human Rights and customs processing. Practices which are regarded as the most For further information, contact the Bureau of comprehensive and objective assessment Diplomatic Security. Phone, 571–345–2507. Fax, of human rights conditions around the 571–345–2527. Internet, world. Through the Human Rights and www.diplomaticsecurity.state.gov.

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Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, The Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Miami, Houston, and Honolulu. Business Affairs has overall responsibility For further information, contact the Office of for formulating and implementing policy Foreign Missions. Phone, 202–895–3500. Fax, 202– regarding international development and 736–4145. reconstruction, trade, investment, intellectual property enforcement, Foreign Service Institute The Foreign international energy issues, terrorism Service Institute of the Department of State is the Federal Government’s financing and economic sanctions, primary training institution for foreign international communications and affairs-related training. In addition to the information policy, and aviation and Department of State, the Institute maritime affairs. provides training for more than 47 other For further information, contact the Bureau of governmental agencies. The Institute’s Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs. Phone, more than 500 courses, including some 202–647–7971. Fax, 202–647–5713. Internet, 70 foreign language courses, range in www.state.gov/e/eeb. length from 1 day to 2 years. The courses are designed to promote Educational and Cultural Affairs The successful performance in each Bureau of Educational and Cultural professional assignment, to ease the Affairs administers the principal adjustment to other countries and provisions of the Mutual Educational and cultures, and to enhance the leadership Cultural Exchange Act (the Fulbright- and management capabilities of the Hays Act), including U.S. international foreign affairs community. educational and cultural exchange For further information, contact the Foreign Service programs. These programs include the Institute. Phone, 703–302–6729. Fax, 703–302– prestigious Fulbright Program for 7227. students, scholars, and teachers; the International Visitor Program, which Information Resource Management brings leaders and future leaders from The Bureau of Information Resource other countries to the United States for Management (IRM) provides the consultation with their professional Department with the information colleagues; and citizen exchanges technology it needs to carry out U.S. through cooperative relationships with diplomacy in the information age. The IRM Bureau is led by the Department’s U.S. nongovernmental organizations that Chief Information Officer. IRM support the Bureau’s mission. establishes effective information resource For further information, contact the Bureau of management planning and policies; Educational and Cultural Affairs. Phone, 202–203– ensures availability of information 5118. Fax, 202–203–5115. Internet, http:// technology systems and operations, exchanges.state.gov/. including information technology contingency planning, to support the Foreign Missions The Office of Foreign Department’s diplomatic, consular, and Missions (OFM) operates the motor management operations; exercises vehicles, tax, customs, real property, and management responsibility for ensuring travel programs to regulate and serve the that the Department’s information 175 foreign missions in the United States resources meet the business and approximately 55,000 foreign requirements of the Department and mission members and dependents. The provide an effective basis for knowledge Office is also an advocate for improved sharing and collaboration within the treatment of U.S. missions and personnel Department and with other foreign abroad. It guards the U.S. public against affairs agencies and partners; exercises abuses of diplomatic privilege and delegated approving authority for the preserves U.S. security interests. OFM Secretary of State for development and maintains regional offices in New York, administration of the Department’s

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computer and information security Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, programs and policies. Russian, and Spanish. IIP delivers America’s message to the world through Inspector General The Office of a number of key products and services. Inspector General (OIG) conducts These programs reach, and are created independent audits, inspections, and strictly for, key international audiences, investigations to promote effective such as U.S. diplomatic missions abroad, management, accountability, and the media, government officials, opinion positive change in the Department of leaders, and the general public in more State, the Broadcasting Board of than 140 countries around the world. Governors (BBG), and the foreign affairs They include Web and print community. OIG provides leadership to publications, speaker programs—both promote integrity, efficiency, traveling (live) and electronic—and effectiveness, and economy; prevent and information resource services. IIP detect waste, fraud, abuse, and orchestrates the State Department’s mismanagement; identify vulnerabilities efforts to counter anti-American and recommend constructive solutions; disinformation/propaganda and serves as offer expert assistance to improve the Department’s chief link with other Department and BBG operations; agencies in coordinating international communicate timely, useful information public diplomacy programs. that facilitates decisionmaking and For further information, contact the Bureau of achieves measurable gains; and keep the International Information Programs. Phone, 202– Department, BBG, and Congress 453–8358. Fax, 202–453–8356. Internet, informed. www.state.gov/r/iip/. For further information, contact the Office of International Narcotics and Law Inspector General. Phone, 202–663–0340. Internet, Enforcement The Bureau of International www.oig.state.gov. Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is Intelligence and Research The Bureau responsible for developing, coordinating, coordinates the activities of U.S. and implementing international narcotics intelligence agencies to ensure that their control, strengthening defenses against overseas activities are consistent with terrorist threats, and providing anticrime U.S. foreign policy objectives and assistance activities of the Department of interests. It also provides all-source State. It provides advice on international analysis which gives the Department narcotics control matters for the Office insights and information to foreign policy of Management and Budget, the questions. It organizes seminars on National Security Council, and the topics of high interest to policymakers White House Office of National Drug and the intelligence community and Control Policy and ensures monitors and analyzes foreign public implementation of U.S. policy in and media opinion on key issues. international narcotics matters. The For further information, call 202–647–1080. Bureau also provides guidance on narcotics control, justice sector reform, International Information Programs and anticrime matters to chiefs of The Bureau of International Information missions and directs narcotics control Programs (IIP) informs, engages, and coordinators at posts abroad. It influences international audiences about communicates or authorizes U.S. policy and society to advance communication, as appropriate, with America’s interests. IIP is a leader in foreign governments on drug control and developing and implementing public anticrime matters including negotiating, diplomacy strategies that measurably concluding, and terminating agreements influence international audiences relating to international narcotics control through quality programs and cutting- and anticrime programs. edge technologies. IIP provides localized For further information, contact the Bureau of contact for U.S. policies and messages, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement reaching millions worldwide in English, Affairs. Phone, 202–776–8750. Fax, 202–776–8775.

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International Organizations The to the threat or use of weapons of mass Bureau of International Organization destruction by terrorists. Affairs provides guidance and support for For further information, contact the Bureau of U.S. participation in international International Security and Nonproliferation. Phone, organizations and conferences and 202–647–9868. Fax, 202–736–4863. Internet, formulates and implements U.S. policy www.state.gov/t/isn. toward international organizations, with Legal Adviser The Office of the Legal particular emphasis on those Adviser advises the Secretary of State organizations which make up the United and other Department officials on all Nations system. It provides direction in domestic and international legal matters the development, coordination, and relating to the Department of State, implementation of U.S. multilateral Foreign Service, and diplomatic and policy. consular posts abroad. The Office’s lawyers draft, negotiate, and interpret For further information, call 202–647–9326. Fax, treaties, international agreements, 202–647–2175. domestic statutes, departmental International Security and regulations, Executive orders, and other Nonproliferation The Bureau of legal documents; provide guidance on International Security and international and domestic law; Nonproliferation (ISN), is responsible for represent the United States in managing a broad range of international organization, negotiation, nonproliferation, counterproliferation, and treaty commission meetings; work and arms control functions. ISN leads on domestic and foreign litigation U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of affecting the Department’s interests; and weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, represent the United States before chemical, and biological weapons) and international tribunals, including the their delivery systems. It is also International Court of Justice. responsible for the following functions: For further information, contact the Office of the Legal Adviser. Phone, 202–647–9598. Fax, 202– —spearheading efforts to promote 647–7096. Internet, www.state.gov/s/l/. international consensus on weapons of mass destruction proliferation through Medical Services The Office of Medical bilateral and multilateral diplomacy; Services develops, manages, and staffs a worldwide primary health care system —addressing weapons of mass for U.S. citizen employees and their destruction proliferation threats posed by eligible dependents residing overseas. In non-state actors and terrorist groups by support of its overseas operations, the improving physical security, using Office approves and monitors the interdiction and sanctions, and actively medical evacuation of patients, conducts participating in the Proliferation Security pre-employment and in-service physical Initiative; examinations, and provides clinical —coordinating the implementation of referral and advisory services. The Office key international treaties and also provides for emergency medical arrangements, working to make them response in the event of a crisis at an relevant to today’s security challenges; overseas post. —working closely with the UN, the For further information, fax 202–663–1613. G–8, NATO, the Organization for the Oceans and International Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Environmental, and Scientific Affairs International Atomic Energy Agency, and The Bureau of Oceans and International other international institutions and Environmental and Scientific Affairs organizations to reduce and eliminate (OES) serves as the foreign policy focal the threat posed by weapons of mass point for international oceans, destruction; and environmental, and scientific efforts. OES —supporting efforts of foreign partners projects, protects, and promotes U.S. to prevent, protect against, and respond global interests in these areas by

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articulating U.S. foreign policy, operations, defense strategy and policy, encouraging international cooperation, military use of space, and defense trade. and negotiating treaties and other Its responsibilities include securing base instruments of international law. The access to support the deployment of U.S. Bureau serves as the principal adviser to military forces overseas, negotiating the Secretary of State on international status of forces agreements, coordinating environment, science, and technology participation in coalition combat and matters and takes the lead in stabilization forces, promoting critical coordinating and brokering diverse infrastructure protection, regulating arms interests in the interagency process, transfers, directing military assistance to where the development of international U.S. allies, combating illegal trafficking policies or the negotiation and in small arms and light weapons, implementation of relevant international facilitating the education and training of agreements are concerned. The Bureau international peacekeepers and foreign seeks to promote the peaceful military personnel, managing exploitation of outer space, develop and humanitarian mine action programs, and coordinate policy on international health assisting other countries in reducing the issues, encourage government to availability of man-portable air defense government scientific cooperation, and systems. prevent the destruction and degradation For further information, contact the Bureau of of the planet’s natural resources and the Political-Military Affairs. Phone, 202–647–5104. global environment. Fax, 202–736–4413. Internet, www.state.gov/t/pm. For further information, contact the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Oceans and International Environmental and The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Scientific Affairs. Phone, 202–647–0978. Fax, 202– Migration directs the Department’s 647–0217. Overseas Building Operations The population, refugee, and migration Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations policy development. It administers U.S. (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas contributions to international buildings program for the Department of organizations for humanitarian State and the U.S. Government assistance- and protection-related programs on behalf of refugees, conflict community serving abroad under the victims, and internally displaced persons authority of the chiefs of mission. Along and provides U.S. contributions to with the input and support of other State nongovernmental organizations which Department bureaus, foreign affairs provide assistance and protection to agencies, and Congress, OBO sets refugees abroad. The Bureau oversees worldwide priorities for the design, the annual admissions of refugees to the construction, acquisition, maintenance, United States for permanent resettlement, use, and sale of real properties and the working closely with the Department of use of sales proceeds. OBO also serves Homeland Security, the Department of as the Single Real Property Manager of Health and Human Services, and various all overseas facilities under the authority State and private voluntary agencies. It of the chiefs of mission. coordinates U.S. international population For further information, contact the Bureau of policy and promotes its goals through Overseas Buildings Operations. Phone, 703–875– bilateral and multilateral cooperation. It 4131. Fax, 703–875–5043. Internet, www.state.gov/ obo. works closely with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of administers U.S. international population Political-Military Affairs is the principal programs. The Bureau also coordinates link between the Departments of State the Department’s international migration and Defense and is the Department of policy through bilateral and multilateral State’s lead on operational military diplomacy. The Bureau oversees efforts matters. The Bureau provides policy to encourage greater participation in direction in the areas of international humanitarian assistance and refugee security, security assistance, military resettlement on the part of foreign

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governments and uses humanitarian Resource Management The Bureau of diplomacy to increase access and Resource Management integrates assistance to those in need in the strategic planning, budgeting, and absence of political solutions. performance to secure departmental resources. The Bureau manages all For further information, contact the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Phone, 202– departmental strategic and performance 663–1071. Fax, 202–663–1002. Internet, planning; budgeting and resource www.state.gov/g/prm. management for operation accounts; global financial services, including Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the accounting, disbursing, and payroll; principal adviser to the U.S. issuance of financial statements and Government, the President, the Vice oversight of the Department’s President, and the Secretary of State on management control program; matters of diplomatic procedure coordination of national security governed by law or international custom resources and remediation of and practice. The Office is responsible vulnerabilities within the Department’s for the following activities: global critical infrastructure; and —arranging visits of foreign chiefs of management of the International state, heads of government, and other Cooperative Administrative Support high officials to the United States; Services Program. —organizing credential presentations of newly arrived Ambassadors, as For further information, contact the Bureau of Resource Management. Phone, 202–647–7490. presented to the President and to the Internet, www.state.gov/s/d/rm/. Secretary of State; —operating the President’s guest Verification, Compliance, and house, Blair House; Implementation The Bureau of —organizing delegations representing Verification, Compliance, and the President at official ceremonies Implementation is responsible for abroad; ensuring and verifying compliance with —conducting official ceremonial international arms control, functions and public events; nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments. The —interpreting the official order of Bureau also ensures that U.S. precedence; intelligence capabilities to collect, —conducting outreach programs of analyze, and disseminate verification cultural enrichment and substantive and compliance information are briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; acquired, maintained, and enhanced. —accrediting of over 103,000 The Bureau is the principal policy embassy, consular, international representative to the intelligence organization, and other foreign community with regard to verification government personnel, members of their and compliance matters, and uses this families, and domestics throughout the role to promote, preserve, and enhance United States; key collection and analytic capabilities —determining entitlement to and to ensure that intelligence diplomatic or consular immunity; verification, compliance, and —publishing of diplomatic and implementation requirements are met. consular lists; The Bureau staffs and manages treaty —resolving problems arising out of implementation commissions, creating diplomatic or consular immunity, such negotiation and implementation policy as legal and police matters; and for agreements and commitments, and —approving the opening of embassy developing policy for future arms and consular offices in conjunction with control, nonproliferation, and the Office of Foreign Missions. disarmament arrangements. It also For further information, contact the Office of the provides support to arms control, Chief of Protocol. Phone, 202–647–2663. Fax, 202– nonproliferation, and disarmament 647–1560. policymaking, including information

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technology support and secure United States Diplomatic Offices— government-to-government Foreign Service communication linkages with foreign (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) treaty partners. The Bureau develops and Country/Capitol Chief of Mission promotes effective U.S. missile defense Afghanistan/Kabul ...... William B. Wood and space policies. The Bureau is also Albania/Tirana ...... John Withers responsible for preparing verifiability Algeria/Algiers ...... Robert S. Ford Andorra/Andorra La Vella ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. assessments on proposals and Angola/Luanda ...... Dan W. Mozena agreements, and reporting these to Antigua and Barbuda/St. John’s Mary Ourisman (N). Congress as required. The Bureau also Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... Earl Anthony Wayne prepares the President’s Annual Report Armenia/Yerevan ...... Joseph Pennington (charge d’affaires) to Congress on Adherence to and Australia/Canberra ...... Robert M. McCallum Compliance With Arms Control, Austria/Vienna ...... Scott F. Kilner (charge Nonproliferation, and Disarmament d’affaires) Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Anne E. Derse Agreements and Commitments, as well Bahamas/Nassau ...... Ned L. Siegel as the reports required by the Iran, North Bahrain/Manama ...... William Monroe Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... Patricia A. Butenis Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act. Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Mary Ourisman Belarus/Minsk ...... Karen B. Stewart For further information, contact the Bureau of Belgium/Brussels ...... Sam Fox Verification, Compliance, and Implementation. Belize/Belmopan ...... Robert J. Dieter Phone, 202–647–5315. Fax, 202–647–1321. Benin/Cotonou ...... Gayleatha B. Brown Internet, www.state.gov/t/vc. Bolivia/La Paz ...... Philip Goldberg Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sara- Charles L. English Foreign Service To a great extent the jevo. Botswana/Gaborone ...... Katherine H. Canavan future of our country depends on the Brazil/Brasilia ...... Clifford M. Sobel relations we have with other countries, Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Emil M. Skodon Begawan. and those relations are conducted Bulgaria/Sofia ...... Jon Ross Beyrle principally by the U.S. Foreign Service. Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Jeanine E. Jackson Burma/Rangoon ...... Sharon E. Villarosa Trained representatives stationed Burundi/Bujumbura ...... Patricia Moller worldwide provide the President and the Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Joseph A. Mussomeli Secretary of State with much of the raw Cameroon/Yaounde ...... Janet E. Garvey Canada/Ottawa ...... David Horton Wilkins material from which foreign policy is Cape Verde/Praia ...... Roger Dwayne Pierce made and with the recommendations Central African Republic/Bangui Frederick B. Cook Chad/N’Djamena ...... Louis J. Nigro, Jr. that help shape it. Chile/Santiago ...... Paul E. Simons Ambassadors are the personal China/Beijing ...... Clark T. Randt, Jr. representatives of the President and Colombia/Bogota ...... William R. Brownfield Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... R. Niles Marquardt report to the President through the Congo, Democratic Republic of William J. Garvelink Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full the/Kinshasa. Congo, Republic of the/ Robert I. Weisberg responsibility for implementation of U.S. Brazzaville. foreign policy by any and all U.S. Costa Rica/San Jose ...... (Vacancy) Government personnel within their Cote d’Ivoire/Abidjan ...... Wanda L. Nesbitt Croatia/Zagreb ...... Robert A. Bradtke country of assignment, except those Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Michael E. Parmly under military commands. Their Section). Curacao/Willemstad ...... Timothy J. Dunn responsibilities include negotiating Cyprus/Nicosia ...... Ronald L. Schlicher agreements between the United States Czech Republic/Prague ...... Richard W. Graber Denmark/Copenhagen ...... James Cain and the host country, explaining and Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... W. Stuart Symington IV disseminating official U.S. policy, and Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Robert P. Fannin maintaining cordial relations with that mingo. East Timor/Dili ...... Hans G. Klemm country’s government and people. Ecuador/Quito ...... Linda Jewell A listing of Foreign Service posts, Egypt/Cairo ...... Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Jr. together with addresses and telephone El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Charles L. Glazer numbers and key personnel, appears in Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... Donald C. Johnson Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— Eritrea, State of/Asmara ...... Ronald K. McMullen Estonia/Tallinn ...... Stanley Davis Phillips Guide for Business Representatives, Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... Donald Y. Yamamoto which is for sale by the Superintendent Fiji Islands, Republic of/Suva ..... Larry Miles Dinger Finland/Helsinki ...... Amy J. Hyatt (charge of Documents, Government Printing d’affaires) Office, Washington, DC 20402. France/Paris ...... Craig Roberts Stapleton

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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

Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... Eunice S. Reddick Nigeria/Abuja ...... Robin R. Sanders Gambia/Banjul ...... Barry L. Wells Norway/Oslo ...... Benson K. Whitney Georgia/Tbilisi ...... John F. Tefft Oman/Muscat ...... Gary Grappo Germany/Berlin ...... William Robert Timken, Pakistan/Islamabad ...... Ryan C. Crocker Jr. Panama/Panama ...... William Alan Eaton Ghana/Accra ...... Pamela E. Bridgewater Papua New Guinea/Port Leslie V. Rowe Greece/Athens ...... Daniel P. Speckhard Moresby. Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Mary Ourisman Paraguay/Asuncion ...... James Caldwell Cason Guatemala/Guatemala ...... James M. Derham Peru/Lima ...... P. Michael McKinley Guinea/Conakry ...... Phillip Carter III Philippines/Manila ...... Kristie A. Kenney Guinea-Bissau/Bissau (N) ...... (Vacancy) Guyana/Georgetown ...... (Vacancy) Poland/Warsaw ...... Victor Henderson Ashe Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... Janet A. Sanderson Portugal/Lisbon ...... Thomas F. Stephenson Holy See/Vatican City ...... Francis Rooney Qatar/Doha ...... Charles Untermeyer Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... Charles Ford Romania/Bucharest ...... Nicholas F. Taubman Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... James B. Cunningham Russian Federation/Moscow ...... William J. Burns Hungary/Budapest ...... April H. Foley Rwanda/Kigali ...... Michael R. Arietti Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Carol Van Voorst St. Kitts and Nevis/Basseterre Mary Ourisman India/New Delhi ...... David C. Mulford (N). Indonesia/Jakarta ...... Cameron R. Hume St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Mary Ourisman Iraq/Baghdad ...... Ryan C. Crocker St. Vincent and the Grenadines/ Mary Ourisman Ireland/Dublin ...... Thomas C. Foley Kingstown (N). Israel/Tel Aviv ...... Richard Henry Jones Samoa/Apia ...... William Paul McCormick Italy/Rome ...... Ronald Spogli Sao Tome and Principe/Sao R. Barrie Walkley Jamaica/Kingston ...... Brenda La Grange Tome (N). Johnson Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... Ford M. Fraker Japan/Tokyo ...... John Thomas Schieffer Senegal/Dakar ...... (Vacancy) Jerusalem (C) ...... Jacob Walles Serbia/Belgrade ...... Cameron P. Munter Jordan/Amman ...... David M. Hale Seychelles/Victoria ...... Cesar B. Cabrera Kazakhstan/Almaty ...... John M. Ordway Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... June Carter Perry Kenya/Nairobi ...... Michael E. Ranneberger Singapore/Singapore ...... Patricia Louise Herbold Kiribati/Tarawa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Vincent Obsitnik Korea/Seoul ...... Alexander R. Vershbow Slovenia/Ljubljana ...... Maryruth Coleman Kosovo/Pristina ...... Tina S. Kaidanow (charge d’affaires) Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Richard LeBaron Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Leslie V. Rowe Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Marie L. Yovanovitch South Africa/Pretoria, Cape Eric M. Bost Laos/Vientiane ...... Ravic Rolf Huso Town. Latvia/Riga ...... Catherine Todd Bailey Spain/Madrid ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. Lebanon/Beirut ...... Jeffrey D. Feltman Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... Robert O. Blake, Jr. Lesotho/Maseru ...... Robert B. Nolan Sudan/Khartoum ...... Alberto M. Fernandez Liberia/Monrovia ...... Donald E. Booth charge d’affaires) Liechtenstein/Vaduz ...... Peter R. Coneway Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Lithuania/Vilnius ...... John A. Cloud, Jr. Hughes Luxembourg/Luxembourg ...... Ann Louise Wagner Swaziland/Mbabane ...... Maurice S. Parker Macedonia/Skopje ...... Gillian Arlette Sweden/Stockholm ...... Michael M. Wood Milovanovic Switzerland/Bern ...... Peter R. Coneway Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... R. Niles Marquardt Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Michael Corbin Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Alan W. Eastham Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... Tracey Jacobson Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur ...... Christopher J. LaFleur Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... Mark A. Green Maldives/Male (N) ...... Robert O. Blake, Jr. Thailand/Bangkok ...... Ralph Leo Boyce, Jr. Mali/Bamako ...... Terence P. McCulley Togolese, Republic/Lome ...... David B. Dunn Malta/Valletta ...... Molly Hering Bordonaro Tonga/Nuku’alofa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Clyde Bishop Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Roy L. Austin Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... (Vacancy) Spain. Mauritius/Port Louis ...... Cesar B. Cabrera Tunisia/Tunis ...... Robert F. Godec Mexico/Mexico City ...... Antonio O. Garza, Jr. Micronesia/Kolonia ...... Miriam K. Hughes Turkey/Ankara ...... Ross Wilson Moldova/Chisinau ...... Michael D. Kirby Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Jennifer L. Brush Monaco/Monaco ...... Craig Roberts Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar ...... Mark Clements Minton Uganda/Kampala ...... Steven A. Browning Montenegro, Republic of/ Roderick W. Moore Ukraine/Kiev ...... William B. Taylor Podgorica. United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi Michele J. Sison Morocco/Rabat ...... Thomas T. Riley United Kingdom/London ...... Robert H. Tuttle Mozambique/Maputo ...... (Vacancy) Uruguay/Montevideo ...... Frank E. Baxter Namibia/Windhoek ...... Gail Dennise Mathieu Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... Jon R. Purnell Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Leslie V. Rowe Nepal/Kathmandu ...... James F. Moriarty Venezuela/Caracas ...... Patrick D. Duddy Netherlands/The Hague ...... Michael F. Gallagher Vietnam/Hanoi ...... Michael W. Marine (charge d’affaires) Yemen/Sanaa ...... Thomas Charles New Zealand/Wellington ...... William Paul McCormick Krajeski Nicaragua/Managua ...... Paul A. Trivelli Zambia/Lusaka ...... Carmen M. Martinez Niger/Niamey ...... Bernadette M. Allen Zimbabwe/Harare ...... James D. McGee

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United States Permanent Diplomatic United States Permanent Diplomatic Mis- Missions to International Organizations sions to International Organizations— Continued Organization Ambassador Organization Ambassador African Union/Addis Ababa ...... (Vacancy) European Union/Brussels ...... Chris Murray (charge Organization for Security and Julie Finley d’affaires) Co-operation in Europe/Vienna. International Civil Aviation Orga- Edward Stimpson United Nations/Geneva ...... Warren W. Tichenor nization. United Nations/New York ...... Zalmay Khalilzad North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Victoria Nuland United Nations/Vienna ...... Gregory L. Schulte tion/Brussels. U.S. Mission to United Nations Tony P. Hall Organization of American States/ Hector E. Morales, Jr. Agencies for Food and Agri- Washington, DC. culture. Organization for Economic Co- Christopher F. Egan U.S. Mission to United Nations Louise V. Oliver operation and Development/ Economic, Scientific and Cul- Paris. tural Organization/Paris.

Sources of Information

Contracts General inquiries may be The State Department Electronic directed to the Office of Acquisitions Reading Room at foia.state.gov uses new Management (A/LM/AQM), Department information technologies to enable of State, P.O. Box 9115, Arlington, VA access to unique historical records of 22219. Phone, 703–516–1706. Fax, international significance which have 703–875–6085. been made available to the public under Diplomatic and Official Passports the Freedom of Information Act or as a Inquirers for these types of passports special collection. should contact their respective travel Employment Inquiries about offices. The U.S. Government only issues employment in the Foreign Service these types of passports to individuals should be directed to HR/REE, Room H– traveling abroad in connection with 518, 2401 E Street NW., Washington, official employment. For additional DC 20522. Phone, 202–261–8888. information, please refer to the Consular Internet, www.careers.state.gov. Affairs Web site at www.travel.state.gov. Information about civil service positions Internet, www.travel.state.gov. in the Department of State and copies of Electronic Access The Department’s civil service job announcements can be Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public accessed through the Internet at Communication, coordinates the www.careers.state.gov. Individual dissemination of public electronic questions may be directed to information for the Department. The [email protected]. Job information staff main Web site (Internet, www.state.gov) is also available to answer questions and the Secretary’s Web site (Internet, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern time secretary.state.gov) provide on Federal workdays. Phone, 202–663– comprehensive, up-to-date information 2176. on foreign policy, support for U.S. Freedom of Information Act and Privacy businesses and careers, and the Act Requests Requests from the public counterterrorism rewards program and for Department of State records should much more. be addressed to the Director, Office of Information Programs and Services, The Bureau of Consular Affairs Web Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- site (Internet, www.travel.state.gov) second Street NW., Washington, DC provides travel warnings and other 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8300. information designed to help Americans Individuals are requested to indicate on travel safely abroad, as well as the outside of the envelope the statute information on U.S. passports and visas under which they are requesting access: and downloadable applications. FOIA REQUEST or PRIVACY REQUEST.

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A public reading room, where should be directed to the Office of unclassified and declassified documents Children’s Issues, CA/OCS/CI, may be inspected, is located in the Department of State, 2201 C Street NW., Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- Washington, DC 20520–4818. Phone, second Street NW., Washington, DC 888–407–4747 or 317–472–2328 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8484. (international). Internet, Directions to the reading room may be www.travel.state.gov. obtained from receptionists at public Passports Passport information is entrances to the Department. available through the Internet at Additional information about the travel.state.gov. For recorded general Department’s FOIA program can be passport information, contact any of the found on the FOIA electronic reading Regional Passport Agencies at the room (Internet, foia.state.gov). telephone numbers listed in the Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of following table. For passport assistance Americans Abroad For information and information, you may call the concerning missing persons, National Passport Information Center emergencies, travel warnings, overseas (phone, 900–225–5674; TDD, 900–225– voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or 7778), and you will be charged $0.35 deaths of Americans abroad, contact the per minute to listen to automated Office of American Citizens Services and messages and $1.05 per minute to speak Crisis Management, Department of State. to an operator. You may also call the Phone, 888–407–4747 or 317–472–2328 National Passport Information Center (international). Internet, using a major credit card at a flat rate of www.travel.state.gov. Correspondence $4.95 (phone, 888–362–8668; TDD, should be directed to this address: 888–498–3648). These rates are subject Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of to change. Correspondence should be Consular Affairs, Department of State, directed to the appropriate regional Washington, DC 20520. agency or the Correspondence Branch, Inquiries regarding international Passport Services, Room 510, 1111 parental child abduction or adoption of Nineteenth Street NW., Washington, DC foreign children by private U.S. citizens 20524. Regional Passport Agencies

City Address Telephone

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 foreign audiences and to feed their Affairs carries out the Secretary’s foreign concerns and comments back to policy objectives and helps American policymakers. Phone, 202–647–6575. and foreign audiences understand the Publications Publications that are importance of foreign affairs. Led by the produced on a regular basis include Assistant Secretary, who also serves as Background Notes and the Foreign Department spokesman, the Bureau Relations series. The Bureau of Public pursues the State Department’s mission Affairs also occasionally publishes to inform the American people and brochures and other publications to

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inform the public of U.S. diplomatic Your Trip Abroad contains basic efforts. All publications are available on information on passports, vaccinations, the Internet at www.state.gov. unusual travel requirements, dual Small Business Information Information nationality, drugs, modes of travel, about doing business with the customs, legal requirements, and many Department of State is available from the other topics for the American tourist, Office of Small and Disadvantaged business representative, or student Business Utilization. The publication, A traveling overseas. Guide to Doing Business With the A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful Department of State, the current Forecast precautions to minimize one’s chances of Contracting Opportunities, and small of becoming a victim of terrorism and business links are available from our also provides other safety tips. Web site. Phone, 703–875–6822. Tips for Americans Residing Abroad Internet, www.state.gov/m/a.sdbu. contains advice for almost 4 million Telephone Directory The Department’s Americans living in foreign countries. telephone directory can be accessed at These publications cost between $1.25 http://state.gov/m/a/gps/directory. and $1.75 each. Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The Regional Tips for Travelers cover following pamphlets from the Bureau of customs, currency regulations, dual Consular Affairs are posted on the nationality, and other local conditions. Internet at travel.state.gov and are for Currently available are publications for sale for $1–$3 (except where noted) by the following countries/regions: Canada; the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. the Caribbean, and Central and South Government Printing Office, America; Mexico; Sub-Saharan Africa; Washington, DC 20402: Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad the Middle East and North Africa; Russia; contains important facts on the potential China; and South Asia and Korea. dangers of being arrested for illegal Foreign Entry Requirements; Passports: drugs abroad and the type of assistance Applying for Them the Easy Way; that U.S. consular officers can and Advance Fee Business Scams; Travel cannot provide. This booklet is free from Tips for Students; Tips for Women the Department of State, Consular Traveling Alone; and Travel Smart/Travel Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 6831, Safe are available from the Consumer Washington, DC 20520. Information Center, Pueblo, CO 81009 Travel Tips for Older Americans ($0.50 each). contains basic information on passports, Visas To obtain information on visas currency, health, aid for serious for foreigners wishing to enter the United problems, and other useful travel tips for States, call 202–663–1225. Internet, senior citizens. www.travel.state.gov.

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

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