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SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES B. STEINBERG Deputy Secretary of State for Management and JACOB J. LEW Resources Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for (VACANCY) Counterterrorism U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator MARK DYBUL Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and (VACANCY) Research Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs RICHARD R. VERMA Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board IRA F. JAFFE Chief of Protocol (VACANCY) Counselor and Chief of Staff CHERYL MILLS Civil Service Ombudsman (VACANCY) Counselor of the Department of State CHERYL MILLS Director of the Office of Civil Rights JOHN M. ROBINSON Director, Policy Planning Staff ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Inspector General HAROLD W. GEISEL, Acting Legal Adviser HAROLD KOH Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive DANIEL B. SMITH Secretary of the Department Under Secretary for Arms Control and ROSE GOTTEMOELLER, Acting International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary for International Security C.S. ELIOT KANG, Acting and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs FRANK J. RUGGIERO, Acting Assistant Secretary for Verification, ROSE GOTTEMOELLER Compliance, and Implementation Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and (VACANCY) Agricultural Affairs Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and DAVID NELSON, Acting Business Affairs Under Secretary for Democracy and Global (VACANCY) Affairs Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human KAREN B. STEWART, Acting Rights, and Labor Assistant Secretary for Oceans and RENO L. HARNISH III, Acting International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, SAMUEL M. WITTEN, Acting and Migration Under Secretary for Management PATRICK F. KENNEDY Assistant Secretary for Administration STEVEN J. RODRIQUEZ, Acting Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs JANICE L. JACOBS 289

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Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security and ERIC J. BOSWELL Director of the Office of Foreign Missions Assistant Secretary for Information Resource SUSAN SWART Management and Chief Information Officer Assistant Secretary for Resource Management JAMES MILLETTE, Acting and Chief Financial Officer Director and Chief Operating Officer of RICHARD SHINNICK, Acting Overseas Buildings Operations Director General of the Foreign Service and HARRY K. THOMAS, JR. Director of Human Resources Director of the Foreign Service Institute RUTH A. WHITESIDE Director, Office of Medical Services THOMAS W. YUN Under Secretary for Political Affairs WILLIAM J. BURNS Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (VACANCY) Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific (VACANCY) Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian DANIEL FRIED Affairs Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics DAVID JOHNSON and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere THOMAS A. SHANNON, JR. Affairs Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs JEFFREY D. FELTMAN, Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian RICHARD A. BOUCHER Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan and PAUL JONES Pakistan Assistant Secretary for International ESTHER BRIMMER Organization Affairs Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and (VACANCY) Public Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and IAN KELLY Spokesman for the Department of State Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural (VACANCY) Affairs Coordinator, International Information JEREMY CURTIN Programs Permanent Representative of the United States HECTOR E. MORALES, JR. 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 SUSAN E. RICE United Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the ALEJANDRO DANIEL WOLFF United Nations United States Representative for Special ROSEMARY DICARLO Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the Economic (VACANCY) and Social Council United States Representative for United (VACANCY) Nations 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

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

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motor vehicle operation, domestic travel, abroad. It guards the U.S. public against and customs processing. abuses of diplomatic privilege and For further information, contact the Bureau of preserves U.S. security interests. OFM Diplomatic Security. Phone, 571–345–2507. Fax, maintains regional offices in New York, 571–345–2527. Internet, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, www.diplomaticsecurity.state.gov. Miami, Houston, and Honolulu. Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs For further information, contact the Office of The Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Foreign Missions. Phone, 202–895–3500. Fax, 202– Business Affairs has overall responsibility 736–4145. for formulating and implementing policy Foreign Service Institute The Foreign regarding international development and Service Institute of the Department of reconstruction, trade, investment, State is the Federal Government’s intellectual property enforcement, primary training institution for foreign international energy issues, terrorism affairs-related training. In addition to the financing and economic sanctions, Department of State, the Institute international communications and provides training for more than 47 other information policy, and aviation and governmental agencies. The Institute’s maritime affairs. more than 500 courses, including some For further information, contact the Bureau of 70 foreign language courses, range in Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs. Phone, length from 1 day to 2 years. The 202–647–7971. Fax, 202–647–5713. Internet, courses are designed to promote www.state.gov/e/eeb. successful performance in each professional assignment, to ease the Educational and Cultural Affairs The adjustment to other countries and Bureau of Educational and Cultural cultures, and to enhance the leadership Affairs administers the principal and management capabilities of the provisions of the Mutual Educational and foreign affairs community. Cultural Exchange Act (the Fulbright- Hays Act), including U.S. international For further information, contact the Foreign Service Institute. Phone, 703–302–6729. Fax, 703–302– educational and cultural exchange 7227. programs. These programs include the prestigious Fulbright Program for Information Resource Management students, scholars, and teachers; the The Bureau of Information Resource International Visitor Program, which Management (IRM) provides the brings leaders and future leaders from Department with the information other countries to the United States for technology it needs to carry out U.S. consultation with their professional diplomacy in the information age. The colleagues; and citizen exchanges IRM Bureau is led by the Department’s through cooperative relationships with Chief Information Officer. IRM U.S. nongovernmental organizations that establishes effective information resource support the Bureau’s mission. management planning and policies; ensures availability of information For further information, contact the Bureau of technology systems and operations, Educational and Cultural Affairs. Phone, 202–203– 5118. Fax, 202–203–5115. Internet, http:// including information technology exchanges.state.gov/. contingency planning, to support the Department’s diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Missions The Office of Foreign management operations; exercises Missions (OFM) operates the motor management responsibility for ensuring vehicles, tax, customs, real property, and that the Department’s information travel programs to regulate and serve the resources meet the business 175 foreign missions in the United States requirements of the Department and and approximately 55,000 foreign provide an effective basis for knowledge mission members and dependents. The sharing and collaboration within the Office is also an advocate for improved Department and with other foreign treatment of U.S. missions and personnel affairs agencies and partners; exercises

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delegated approving authority for the edge technologies. IIP provides localized Secretary of State for development and contact for U.S. policies and messages, administration of the Department’s reaching millions worldwide in English, 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 achieves measurable gains; and keep the For further information, contact the Bureau of Department, BBG, and Congress International Information Programs. Phone, 202– 453–8358. Fax, 202–453–8356. Internet, informed. www.state.gov/r/iip/. For further information, contact the Office of Inspector General. Phone, 202–663–0340. Internet, International Narcotics and Law www.oig.state.gov. Enforcement The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Intelligence and Research The Bureau (INL) is responsible for developing coordinates the activities of U.S. policies and managing programs to intelligence agencies to ensure that their combat and counter international overseas activities are consistent with narcotics production and trafficking, and U.S. foreign policy objectives and to strengthen law enforcement and other interests. It also provides all-source rule of law institutional capabilities analysis which gives the Department outside the United States. The Bureau insights and information to foreign policy also directs narcotics control questions. It organizes seminars on coordinators at posts abroad and topics of high interest to policymakers provides guidance on narcotics control, and the intelligence community and justice sector reform, and anticrime monitors and analyzes foreign public matters to the chiefs of missions. It and media opinion on key issues. supports the development of strong, For further information, call 202–647–1080. sustainable criminal justice systems as well as training for capable police force International Information Programs and competent judicial officials. INL The Bureau of International Information works closely with a broad range of Programs (IIP) informs, engages, and other U.S. Government agencies. influences international audiences about U.S. policy and society to advance For further information, contact the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement America’s interests. IIP is a leader in Affairs. Phone, 202–647–2842. Fax, 202–736–4045. developing and implementing public diplomacy strategies that measurably International Organizations The influence international audiences Bureau of International Organization through quality programs and cutting- Affairs provides guidance and support for

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U.S. participation in international Legal Adviser The Office of the Legal organizations and conferences and Adviser advises the Secretary of State formulates and implements U.S. policy and other Department officials on all toward international organizations, with domestic and international legal matters particular emphasis on those relating to the Department of State, organizations which make up the United Foreign Service, and diplomatic and Nations system. It provides direction in consular posts abroad. The Office’s the development, coordination, and lawyers draft, negotiate, and interpret implementation of U.S. multilateral treaties, international agreements, policy. domestic statutes, departmental For further information, call 202–647–9326. Fax, regulations, Executive orders, and other 202–647–2175. legal documents; provide guidance on International Security and international and domestic law; Nonproliferation The Bureau of represent the United States in International Security and international organization, negotiation, Nonproliferation (ISN), is responsible for and treaty commission meetings; work managing a broad range of on domestic and foreign litigation nonproliferation, counterproliferation, affecting the Department’s interests; and and arms control functions. ISN leads represent the United States before U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of international tribunals, including the weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, International Court of Justice. chemical, and biological weapons) and For further information, contact the Office of the their delivery systems. It is also Legal Adviser. Phone, 202–647–9598. Fax, 202– responsible for the following functions: 647–7096. Internet, www.state.gov/s/l/. —spearheading efforts to promote international consensus on weapons of Legislative Affairs The Bureau of mass destruction proliferation through Legislative Affairs coordinates legislative bilateral and multilateral diplomacy; activity for the Department of State and —addressing weapons of mass advises the Secretary, the Deputy, as destruction proliferation threats posed by well as the Under Secretaries and non-state actors and terrorist groups by Assistant Secretaries on legislative improving physical security, using strategy. The Bureau facilitates effective interdiction and sanctions, and actively communication between State participating in the Proliferation Security Department officials and the Members of Initiative; Congress and their staffs. Legislative —coordinating the implementation of key international treaties and Affairs works closely with the arrangements, working to make them authorizing, appropriations, and relevant to today’s security challenges; oversight committees of the House and —working closely with the UN, the Senate, as well as with individual G–8, NATO, the Organization for the Members that have an interest in State Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Department or foreign policy issues. The International Atomic Energy Agency, and Bureau also manages Department other international institutions and testimony before House and Senate organizations to reduce and eliminate hearings, organizes Member and staff the threat posed by weapons of mass briefings, facilitates Congressional travel destruction; and to overseas posts for Members and staff —supporting efforts of foreign partners throughout the year, and reviews to prevent, protect against, and respond proposed legislation and coordinates to the threat or use of weapons of mass Statements of Administration Policy on destruction by terrorists. legislation affecting the conduct of U.S. For further information, contact the Bureau of foreign policy. Legislative Affairs staff International Security and Nonproliferation. Phone, advises individual Bureaus of the 202–647–9868. Fax, 202–736–4863. Internet, www.state.gov/t/isn. Department on legislative and outreach

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strategies and coorindates those of the planet’s natural resources and the strategies with the Secretary’s priorities. global environment.

For further information, contact the Bureau of For further information, contact the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Phone, 202–647–1714. Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Phone, 202–647–6961. Fax, 202– Medical Services The Office of Medical 647–0217. Services (MED) develops, manages, and Overseas Building Operations The staffs a worldwide primary health care Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations system for U.S. Government employees (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas and their eligible dependents residing buildings program for the Department of overseas. In support of its overseas State and the U.S. Government operations, MED approves and monitors community serving abroad under the the medical evacuation of patients, authority of the chiefs of mission. Along conducts pre-employment and in-service with the input and support of other State physical clearance examinations, and Department bureaus, foreign affairs provides clinical referral and advisory agencies, and Congress, OBO sets services. MED also provides for worldwide priorities for the design, emergency medical response in the construction, acquisition, maintenance, event of a crisis at an overseas post. use, and sale of real properties and the use of sales proceeds. OBO also serves For further information, contact the Office of Medical Services. Phone, 202–663–1649. Fax 202– as the Single Real Property Manager of 663–1613. all overseas facilities under the authority of the chiefs of mission. Oceans and International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs For further information, contact the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Phone, 703–875– The Bureau of Oceans and International 4131. Fax, 703–875–5043. Internet, www.state.gov/ Environmental and Scientific Affairs obo. (OES) serves as the foreign policy focal point for international oceans, Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of environmental, and scientific efforts. OES Political-Military Affairs is the principal projects, protects, and promotes U.S. link between the Departments of State global interests in these areas by and Defense and is the Department of articulating U.S. foreign policy, State’s lead on operational military encouraging international cooperation, matters. The Bureau provides policy and negotiating treaties and other direction in the areas of international instruments of international law. The security, security assistance, military Bureau serves as the principal adviser to operations, defense strategy and policy, the Secretary of State on international counter-piracy measures, military use of environment, science, and technology space, and defense trade. Its matters and takes the lead in responsibilities include securing base coordinating and brokering diverse access to support the deployment of U.S. interests in the interagency process, military forces overseas, negotiating where the development of international status of forces agreements, coordinating policies or the negotiation and participation in coalition combat and implementation of relevant international stabilization forces, promoting critical agreements are concerned. The Bureau infrastructure protection, regulating arms seeks to promote the peaceful transfers, directing military assistance to exploitation of outer space, develop and U.S. allies, combating illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons, coordinate policy on international health facilitating the education and training of issues, encourage government to international peacekeepers and foreign government scientific cooperation, and military personnel, managing prevent the destruction and degradation humanitarian mine action programs, and assisting other countries in reducing the

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availability of man-portable air defense —arranging visits of foreign chiefs of systems. state, heads of government, and other high officials to the United States; For further information, contact the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Phone, 202–647–5104. —organizing credential presentations Fax, 202–736–4413. Internet, www.state.gov/t/pm. of newly arrived Ambassadors, as presented to the President and to the Population, Refugees, and Migration Secretary of State; The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and —operating the President’s guest Migration directs the Department’s house, Blair House; population, refugee, and migration —organizing delegations representing policy development. It administers U.S. the President at official ceremonies contributions to international abroad; organizations for humanitarian —conducting official ceremonial assistance- and protection-related functions and public events; programs on behalf of refugees, conflict —interpreting the official order of victims, and internally displaced persons precedence; and provides U.S. contributions to —conducting outreach programs of nongovernmental organizations which cultural enrichment and substantive provide assistance and protection to briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; refugees abroad. The Bureau oversees —accrediting of over 103,000 the annual admissions of refugees to the embassy, consular, international United States for permanent resettlement, organization, and other foreign working closely with the Department of government personnel, members of their Homeland Security, the Department of families, and domestics throughout the Health and Human Services, and various United States; State and private voluntary agencies. It —determining entitlement to coordinates U.S. international population diplomatic or consular immunity; policy and promotes its goals through —publishing of diplomatic and bilateral and multilateral cooperation. It consular lists; works closely with the U.S. Agency for —resolving problems arising out of International Development, which diplomatic or consular immunity, such administers U.S. international population as legal and police matters; and programs. The Bureau also coordinates —approving the opening of embassy the Department’s international migration and consular offices in conjunction with policy through bilateral and multilateral the Office of Foreign Missions. diplomacy. The Bureau oversees efforts For further information, contact the Office of the to encourage greater participation in Chief of Protocol. Phone, 202–647–2663. Fax, 202– humanitarian assistance and refugee 647–1560. resettlement on the part of foreign Resource Management The Bureau of governments and uses humanitarian Resource Management integrates diplomacy to increase access and strategic planning, budgeting, and assistance to those in need in the performance to secure departmental absence of political solutions. resources. The Bureau manages all For further information, contact the Bureau of departmental strategic and performance Population, Refugees, and Migration. Phone, 202– planning; budgeting and resource 663–1071. Fax, 202–663–1002. Internet, 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

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management of the International as the reports required by the Iran, North Cooperative Administrative Support Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act. Services Program. For further information, contact the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation. For further information, contact the Bureau of Phone, 202–647–5315. Fax, 202–647–1321. Resource Management. Phone, 202–647–7490. Internet, www.state.gov/t/vc. Internet, www.state.gov/s/d/rm/. Foreign Service To a great extent the Verification, Compliance, and future of our country depends on the Implementation The Bureau of relations we have with other countries, Verification, Compliance, and and those relations are conducted Implementation is responsible for principally by the U.S. Foreign Service. ensuring and verifying compliance with Trained representatives stationed international arms control, worldwide provide the President and the nonproliferation, and disarmament Secretary of State with much of the raw agreements and commitments. The material from which foreign policy is Bureau also ensures that U.S. made and with the recommendations intelligence capabilities to collect, that help shape it. analyze, and disseminate verification Ambassadors are the personal and compliance information are representatives of the President and acquired, maintained, and enhanced. report to the President through the The Bureau is the principal policy Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full representative to the intelligence responsibility for implementation of U.S. community with regard to verification foreign policy by any and all U.S. and compliance matters, and uses this Government personnel within their country of assignment, except those role to promote, preserve, and enhance under military commands. Their key collection and analytic capabilities responsibilities include negotiating and to ensure that intelligence agreements between the United States verification, compliance, and and the host country, explaining and implementation requirements are met. disseminating official U.S. policy, and The Bureau staffs and manages treaty maintaining cordial relations with that implementation commissions, creating country’s government and people. negotiation and implementation policy A listing of Foreign Service posts, for agreements and commitments, and together with addresses and telephone developing policy for future arms numbers and key personnel, appears in control, nonproliferation, and Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— disarmament arrangements. It also Guide for Business Representatives, provides support to arms control, which is for sale by the Superintendent nonproliferation, and disarmament of Documents, Government Printing policymaking, including information Office, Washington, DC 20402. 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 is also Country/Capitol Chief of Mission responsible for preparing verifiability Afghanistan/Kabul ...... William B. Wood assessments on proposals and Albania/Tirana ...... John Withers agreements, and reporting these to Algeria/Algiers ...... David D. Pearce Andorra/Andorra La Vella ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. Congress as required. The Bureau also Angola/Luanda ...... Dan W. Mozena prepares the President’s Annual Report Antigua and Barbuda/St. John’s Brent Hardt (charge (N). d’affaires) to Congress on Adherence to and Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... Earl Anthony Wayne Compliance With Arms Control, Armenia/Yerevan ...... Joseph Pennington (charge d’affaires) Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Australia/Canberra ...... Robert M. McCallum Agreements and Commitments, as well Austria/Vienna ...... Scott F. Kilner (charge d’affaires) Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Anne E. Derse

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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

Bahamas/Nassau ...... Timothy Zuniga-Brown Guatemala/Guatemala ...... Stephen McFarland (charge d’affaires) Guinea/Conakry ...... (vacancy) Bahrain/Manama ...... J. Adam Ereli Guinea-Bissau/Bissau (N) ...... Marcia S. Bernicat Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... James Moriarty Guyana/Georgetown ...... John Melvin Jones Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Brent Hardt (charge Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... Janet A. Sanderson d’affaires) Holy See/Vatican City ...... Francis Rooney Belarus/Minsk ...... Karen B. Stewart Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... Charles Ford Belgium/Brussels ...... Sam Fox Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... James B. Cunningham Belize/Belmopan ...... J.A. Diffily (charge d’af- Hungary/Budapest ...... April H. Foley faires) Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Carol Van Voorst Benin/Cotonou ...... Gayleatha B. Brown India/New Delhi ...... (vacancy) Bolivia/La Paz ...... Krishna R. Urs (charge Indonesia/Jakarta ...... Cameron R. Hume d’affaires) Iraq/Baghdad ...... Ryan C. Crocker Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sara- Charles L. English Ireland/Dublin ...... Thomas C. Foley jevo. Israel/Tel Aviv ...... James B. Cunningham Botswana/Gaborone ...... Stephen J. Nolan Italy/Rome ...... Ronald Spogli Brazil/Brasilia ...... Clifford M. Sobel Jamaica/Kingston ...... Brenda La Grange Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Emil M. Skodon Johnson Begawan. Japan/Tokyo ...... John Thomas Schieffer Bulgaria/Sofia ...... Jon Ross Beyrle Jerusalem (C) ...... Jacob Walles Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... (vacancy) Jordan/Amman ...... Robert S. Beecroft Burma/Rangoon ...... Sharon E. Villarosa Kazakhstan/Almaty ...... Richard Hoagland Burundi/Bujumbura ...... Patricia Moller Kenya/Nairobi ...... Michael E. Ranneberger Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Joseph A. Mussomeli Kiribati/Tarawa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Cameroon/Yaounde ...... Janet E. Garvey Korea/Seoul ...... Alexander R. Vershbow Canada/Ottawa ...... Terry Breese (charge Kosovo/Pristina ...... Tina S. Kaidanow Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Deborah K. Jones d’affaires) Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Tatiana Gfoeller Cape Verde/Praia ...... Marianne M. Myles Laos/Vientiane ...... Ravic Rolf Huso Central African Republic/Bangui Frederick B. Cook Latvia/Riga ...... Catherine Todd Bailey Chad/N’Djamena ...... Louis J. Nigro, Jr. Lebanon/Beirut ...... Michelle Sison Chile/Santiago ...... Paul E. Simons Lesotho/Maseru ...... Robert B. Nolan China/Beijing ...... Clark T. Randt, Jr. Liberia/Monrovia ...... Linda Thomas-Green- Colombia/Bogota ...... William R. Brownfield field Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... R. Niles Marquardt Liechtenstein/Vaduz ...... Peter R. Coneway Congo, Democratic Republic of William J. Garvelink Lithuania/Vilnius ...... John A. Cloud, Jr. the/Kinshasa. Luxembourg/Luxembourg ...... Ann Louise Wagner Congo, Republic of the/ Alan W. Eastham Lybia/Tripoli ...... Gene Cretz Brazzaville. Macedonia/Skopje ...... Gillian Arlette Costa Rica/San Jose ...... Peter Cianchette Milovanovic Cote d’Ivoire/Abidjan ...... Wanda L. Nesbitt Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... R. Niles Marquardt Croatia/Zagreb ...... Robert A. Bradtke Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Peter W. Bodde Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Michael E. Parmly Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur ...... Christopher J. LaFleur Section). Maldives/Male (N) ...... Robert O. Blake, Jr. Curacao/Willemstad ...... Timothy J. Dunn Mali/Bamako ...... Gillian Arlette Cyprus/Nicosia ...... Ronald L. Schlicher Milovanovic Czech Republic/Prague ...... Richard W. Graber Malta/Valletta ...... Molly Hering Bordonaro Denmark/Copenhagen ...... James Cain Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Clyde Bishop Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... James C. Swan Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... Mark Boulware Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Roland Bullen (charge Mauritius/Port Louis ...... (vacancy) mingo. d’affaires) Mexico/Mexico City ...... Leslie Bassett (charge East Timor/Dili ...... Hans G. Klemm d’affaires) Ecuador/Quito ...... Linda Jewell Micronesia/Kolonia ...... Miriam K. Hughes Egypt/Cairo ...... Margaret Scobey Moldova/Chisinau ...... Michael D. Kirby El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Robert Blau (charge Monaco/Monaco ...... Craig Roberts d’affaires) Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar ...... Mark Clements Minton Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... Donald C. Johnson Montenegro, Republic of/ Roderick W. Moore Eritrea, State of/Asmara ...... Ronald K. McMullen Podgorica. Estonia/Tallinn ...... Stanley Davis Phillips Morocco/Rabat ...... (vacancy) Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... Donald Y. Yamamoto Mozambique/Maputo ...... (vacancy) Fiji Islands, Republic of/Suva ..... Larry Miles Dinger Namibia/Windhoek ...... Gail Dennise Mathieu Finland/Helsinki ...... Amy J. Hyatt (charge Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger d’affaires) Nepal/Kathmandu ...... Nancy J. Powell France/Paris ...... Craig Roberts Stapleton Netherlands/The Hague ...... Michael F. Gallagher Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... Eunice S. Reddick (charge d’affaires) Gambia/Banjul ...... Barry L. Wells New Zealand/Wellington ...... William Paul McCormick Georgia/Tbilisi ...... John F. Tefft Nicaragua/Managua ...... Robert Callahan Germany/Berlin ...... William Robert Timken, Niger/Niamey ...... Bernadette M. Allen Jr. Nigeria/Abuja ...... Robin R. Sanders Ghana/Accra ...... Donald Teitelbaum Norway/Oslo ...... Benson K. Whitney Greece/Athens ...... Daniel P. Speckhard Oman/Muscat ...... Gary Grappo Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Karen McIssac (charge Pakistan/Islamabad ...... Anne W. Patterson d’affaires) Panama/Panama ...... Barbara Stephenson

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

Papua New Guinea/Port Leslie V. Rowe Tunisia/Tunis ...... Robert F. Godec Moresby. Turkey/Ankara ...... Ross Wilson Paraguay/Asuncion ...... Liliana Ayalde Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Richard Miles (charge Peru/Lima ...... P. Michael McKinley d’affaires) Philippines/Manila ...... Kristie A. Kenney Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger Poland/Warsaw ...... Victor Henderson Ashe Uganda/Kampala ...... Steven A. Browning Portugal/Lisbon ...... Thomas F. Stephenson Ukraine/Kiev ...... William B. Taylor Qatar/Doha ...... Joseph LeBaron United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi Richard Olson Romania/Bucharest ...... Nicholas F. Taubman United Kingdom/London ...... Robert H. Tuttle Russian Federation/Moscow ...... William J. Burns Uruguay/Montevideo ...... Robin Matthewman Rwanda/Kigali ...... W. Stuart Symington IV (charge d’affaires) St. Kitts and Nevis/Basseterre Brent Hardt (charge Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... Richard Norland (N). d’affaires) Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Leslie V. Rowe St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Brent Hardt (charge Venezuela/Caracas ...... John Caulfield (charge d’affaires) d’affaires) St. Vincent and the Grenadines/ Brent Hardt (charge Vietnam/Hanoi ...... Michael W. Marine Kingstown (N). d’affaires) Samoa/Apia ...... William Paul McCormick Yemen/Sanaa ...... Stephen Seche Sao Tome and Principe/Sao Eunice S. Reddick Zambia/Lusaka ...... Donald E. Booth Tome (N). Zimbabwe/Harare ...... James D. McGee Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... Ford M. Fraker Senegal/Dakar ...... (vacancy) United States Permanent Diplomatic Serbia/Belgrade ...... Cameron P. Munter Missions to International Organizations Seychelles/Victoria ...... (vacancy) Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... June Carter Perry Organization Ambassador Singapore/Singapore ...... Patricia Louise Herbold Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Vincent Obsitnik African Union/Addis Ababa ...... (vacancy) Slovenia/Ljubljana ...... Maryruth Coleman European Union/Brussels ...... Chris Murray (charge (charge d’affaires) d’affaires) Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Leslie V. Rowe International Civil Aviation Orga- (vacancy) South Africa/Pretoria, Cape (vacancy) nization. Town. Spain/Madrid ...... Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Victoria Nuland Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... Robert O. Blake, Jr. tion/Brussels. Sudan/Khartoum ...... Alberto M. Fernandez Organization of American States/ Hector E. Morales, Jr. charge d’affaires) Washington, DC. Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Organization for Economic Co- (vacancy) Hughes operation and Development/ Swaziland/Mbabane ...... Maurice S. Parker Paris. Sweden/Stockholm ...... Michael M. Wood Organization for Security and Julie Finley Switzerland/Bern ...... Peter R. Coneway Co-operation in Europe/Vienna. Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Raymond D. Maxwell United Nations/Geneva ...... (vacancy) (charge d’affaires) United Nations/New York ...... Susan E. Rice Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... Tracey Jacobson United Nations/Vienna ...... (vacancy) Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... (vacancy) U.S. Mission to United Nations Tony P. Hall Thailand/Bangkok ...... Ralph Leo Boyce, Jr. Agencies for Food and Agri- Togolese, Republic/Lome ...... Patricia M. Hawkins culture. Tonga/Nuku’alofa (N) ...... Larry Miles Dinger U.S. Mission to United Nations Louise V. Oliver Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Len Kusnitz (charge Economic, Scientific and Cul- Spain. d’affaires) tural Organization/Paris.

Sources of Information

Contracts General inquiries may be these types of passports to individuals directed to the Office of Acquisitions traveling abroad in connection with Management (A/LM/AQM), Department official employment. For additional of State, P.O. Box 9115, Arlington, VA information, please refer to the Consular 22219. Phone, 703–516–1706. Fax, Affairs web site. Internet, http:// 703–875–6085. travel.state.gov. Diplomatic and Official Passports Electronic Access The Department’s Inquirers for these types of passports Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public should contact their respective travel Communication, coordinates the offices. The U.S. Government only issues dissemination of public electronic

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information for the Department. The Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- main web site (Internet, www.state.gov) second Street NW., Washington, DC and the Secretary’s web site (Internet, 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8484. secretary.state.gov) provide Directions to the reading room may be comprehensive, up-to-date information obtained from receptionists at public on foreign policy, support for U.S. entrances to the Department. businesses and careers, and the Additional information about the counterterrorism rewards program and Department’s FOIA program can be much more. found on the FOIA electronic reading The Bureau of Consular Affairs web room (Internet, foia.state.gov). site (Internet, http://travel.state.gov) Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of provides travel warnings and other Americans Abroad For information information designed to help Americans concerning missing persons, travel safely abroad, as well as emergencies, travel warnings, overseas information on U.S. passports and visas voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or and downloadable applications. deaths of Americans abroad, contact the The State Department Electronic Office of American Citizens Services and Reading Room at foia.state.gov uses new Crisis Management, Department of State. information technologies to enable Phone, 888–407–4747 or 202–501–4444 access to unique historical records of (international). Internet, http:// international significance which have travel.state.gov. Correspondence should been made available to the public under be directed to this address: Overseas the Freedom of Information Act or as a Citizens Services, Bureau of Consular special collection. Employment Inquiries about Affairs, Department of State, employment in the Foreign Service Washington, DC 20520. should be directed to HR/REE, Room H– Inquiries regarding international 518, 2401 E Street NW., Washington, parental child abduction or adoption of DC 20522. Phone, 202–261–8888. foreign children by private U.S. citizens Internet, www.careers.state.gov. should be directed to the Office of Information about civil service positions Children’s Issues, CA/OCS/CI, in the Department of State and copies of Department of State, SA–29, 2201 C civil service job announcements can be Street NW., Washington, DC 20520– accessed through the Internet at 4818. Phone, 888–407–4747 or 202– www.careers.state.gov. Individual 501–4444 (international). Internet, http:// questions may be directed to travel.state.gov and http:// [email protected]. Job information staff adoption.state.gov. is also available to answer questions Passports Passport information is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern time available through the Internet at http:// on Federal workdays. Phone, 202–663– travel.state.gov. For information on 2176. where to apply for a passport nationwide Freedom of Information Act and Privacy go to http://iafdb.travel.state.gov. For Act Requests Requests from the public passport questions, travel emergencies, for Department of State records should or to make an appoinment at any be addressed to the Director, Office of Regional Passport Agency, call the Information Programs and Services, National Passport Information Center at Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- 887–4–USA–PPT (887–487–2778) (TDD/ second Street NW., Washington, DC TTY: 888–874–7793). Passport 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8300. information is available 24 hours, 7 days Individuals are requested to indicate on a week; customer service representatives the outside of the envelope the statute are available Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to under which they are requesting access: 10 p.m., eastern standard time, FOIA REQUEST or PRIVACY REQUEST. excluding federal holidays. A public reading room, where Correspondence can be submitted via unclassified and declassified documents Internet at http://travel.state.gov/passport/ may be inspected, is located in the about/npic/npic—896.html or can be

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directed to the appropriate regional Small Business Information Information agency (Internet, http://travel.state.gov/ about doing business with the passport/passport—4312.html) or the Department of State is available from the Correspondence Branch, Passport Office of Small and Disadvantaged Services, Room 510, 1111 Nineteenth Business Utilization. The publication, A Street NW., Washington, DC 20524. Guide to Doing Business With the Public Affairs The Bureau of Public Department of State, the current Forecast Affairs carries out the Secretary’s foreign of Contracting Opportunities, and small policy objectives and helps American business links are available from our and foreign audiences understand the Web site. Phone, 703–875–6822. importance of foreign affairs. Led by the Internet, www.state.gov/m/a.sdbu. Telephone Directory The Department’s Assistant Secretary, who also serves as telephone directory can be accessed at Department spokesman, the Bureau http://state.gov/m/a/gps/directory. pursues the State Department’s mission Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad Tips for to inform the American people and Americans Traveling Abroad contains foreign audiences and to feed their extensive information about traveling concerns and comments back to and living in foreign countries. Internet, policymakers. Phone, 202–647–6575. http://travel.state.gov/travel/living/ Publications Publications that are living—1234.html. Additional produced on a regular basis include information for travlers is available at Background Notes and the Foreign http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/ Relations series. The Bureau of Public brochures/brochures—1234.html. Affairs also occasionally publishes Visas To obtain information on visas brochures and other publications to for foreigners wishing to enter the United inform the public of U.S. diplomatic States, call 202–663–1225. Internet, efforts. All publications are available on http://travel.state.gov/visa/ the Internet at www.state.gov. visa—1750.html.

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