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SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN L. POWELL Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and CARL W. FORD, JR. Research Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs PAUL V. KELLY Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board EDWARD REIDY Chief of Protocol DONALD B. ENSENAT Chief of Staff ELAINE K. SHOCAS Civil Service Ombudsman TED A. BOREK Counselor of the Department of State (VACANCY) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal BARBARA POPE Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights Director, Policy Planning Staff RICHARD N. HAASS Inspector General CLARK KENT ERVIN Legal Adviser WILLIAM H. TAFT IV Special Assistant to the Secretary and MAURA HARTY Executive Secretary of the Department Deputy Secretary of State RICHARD L. ARMITAGE Under Secretary for Arms Control and JOHN R. BOLTON International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary for Arms Control R. LUCAS FISCHER, Acting Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation JOHN S. WOLF Assistant Secretary for Political-Military LINCOLN P. BLOOMFIELD, JR. Affairs Assistant Secretary for Verification and EDWARD J. LACEY, Acting Compliance Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and ALAN P. LARSON Agricultural Affairs Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Under Secretary for Global Affairs PAULA J. DOBRIANSKY Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human LORNE W. CRANER Rights, and Labor Assistant Secretary for International R. RAND BEERS Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary for Oceans and ANTHONY F. ROCK, Acting International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Population, ARTHUR E. DEWEY Refugees, and Migration Affairs Under Secretary for Management GRANT S. GREEN, JR. Assistant Secretary for Administration WILLIAM A. EATON Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs MARY A. RYAN 287

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Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security DAVID G. CARPENTER and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions Assistant Secretary for Information FERNANDO BURBANO Resource Management and Chief Information Officer Assistant Secretary for Resource CHRISTOPHER B. BURNHAM Management and Chief Financial Officer Director and Chief Operating Officer of CHARLES E. WILLIAMS Overseas Buildings and Operations Director General of the Foreign Service RUTH A. DAVIS and Director of Human Resources Director of the Foreign Service Institute KATHERINE H. PETERSON Under Secretary for Political Affairs MARC I. GROSSMAN Assistant Secretary for African Affairs WALTER H. KANSTEINER III Assistant Secretary for East Asian and JAMES A. KELLY Pacific Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and A. ELIZABETH JONES Eurasian Affairs Assistant Secretary for Western OTTO J. REICH Hemisphere Affairs Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs WILLIAM J. BURNS Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs CHRISTINA B. ROCCA Assistant Secretary for International (VACANCY) Organization Affairs Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and CHARLOTTE L. BEERS Public Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and RICHARD BOUCHER Spokesman for the Department of State U.S. Coordinator, International Information JOHN P. DWYER Programs Permanent Representative of the United ROGER F. NORIEGA States of America to the Organization of American States

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United States Permanent Representative to the JOHN D. NEGROPONTE United Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the JAMES B. CUNNINGHAM United Nations United States Representative for Special RICHARD S. WILLIAMSON Political Affairs in the United Nations United States Representative on the SICHAN SIV Economic and Social Council

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United States Representative for U.N. PATRICK F. KENNEDY 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 developments as they relate to arms by act of July 27, 1789, as the control and weapons developments. Department of Foreign Affairs and was For further information, contact the Bureau of Arms renamed Department of State by act of Control at 202–647–8478. Fax, 202–736–4472. September 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note). Consular Affairs The Bureau of Secretary of State The Secretary of Consular Affairs is responsible for the State is responsible for the overall protection and welfare of American direction, coordination, and supervision citizens and interests abroad; the of U.S. foreign relations and for the administration and enforcement of the interdepartmental activities of the U.S. provisions of the immigration and Government abroad. The Secretary is the nationality laws insofar as they concern first-ranking member of the Cabinet, is a the Department and Foreign Service; and member of the National Security the issuance of passports and visas and Council, and is in charge of the related services. Approximately 7 million operations of the Department, including passports a year are issued by the Office the Foreign Service. of Passport Services of the Bureau at the Regional Bureaus Foreign affairs processing centers in Portsmouth, NH, activities worldwide are handled by the and Charleson, SC, and the regional geographic bureaus, which include the agencies in , MA; Chicago, IL; Bureaus of African Affairs, European Honolulu, HI; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, CA; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; New Near East Affairs, South Asian Affairs, York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San and Western Hemisphere Affairs. Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Stamford, Arms Control The Bureau of Arms CT; and Washington, DC. Control is responsible for strengthening For further information, visit the Bureau of national security by formulating, Consular Affairs Web site at travel.state.gov. negotiating, and implementing effective arms control policies, strategies, and Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor agreements. The Bureau directs U.S. The Bureau of Democracy, Human participation in both bilateral and Rights, and Labor (DRL) is responsible multilateral arms control negotiations for developing and implementing U.S. and in implementing bodies such as the policy on democracy, human rights, Organization for the Prohibition of labor, and religious freedom. The Bureau Chemical Weapons. It is also responsible undertakes dialog with foreign for all issues involving nuclear weapons governments and builds partnerships in as well as monitoring technology multilateral organizations in order to

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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build global consensus in support of Economic and Business Affairs The democratic rule and universal human Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs rights principles. It is responsible for has overall responsibility for formulating preparing the annual Country Reports on and implementing policy regarding Human Rights Practices which are foreign economic matters, including regarded as the most comprehensive and resource and food policy, international objective assessment of human rights communications and information policy, conditions around the world. Through international energy issues, trade, the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, economic sanctions, international DRL provides comprehensive technical finance and development, and aviation and financial support for democracy and and maritime affairs. human rights, which helps prosecute war For further information, contact the Bureau of criminals, promote religious freedom, Economic and Business Affairs. Phone, 202–647– monitor free and fair elections, support 7971. Fax, 202–647–5713. workers’ rights, encourage the Foreign Missions The Office of Foreign establishment of the rule of law, and Missions (OFM) operates the motor facilitate the growth of civil society. vehicles, tax, customs, real property, and For further information, contact the Bureau of travel programs to regulate and serve the Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at 202–647– 175 foreign missions in the United States 2126. and approximately 55,000 foreign mission members and dependents. The Diplomatic Security The Bureau of Office is also an advocate for improved Diplomatic Security provides a secure treatment of U.S. missions and personnel environment for conducting U.S. abroad. It guards the U.S. public against diplomacy and promoting U.S. interests abuses of diplomatic privilege and worldwide. Overseas, the Bureau preserves U.S. security interests. OFM develops and maintains effective security maintains regional offices in New York, programs for every U.S. Embassy and Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, consulate abroad; protects U.S. Miami, and Honolulu. diplomatic personnel and missions from For further information, contact the Office of physical, chemical, biological, and Foreign Missions. Phone, 202–647–3417. Fax, 202– electronic attack as well as technical 647–1919. espionage; and advises U.S. Ambassadors on all security matters. Foreign Service Institute The Foreign Through a network of 24 field and Service Institute of the Department of resident offices in the United States, the State is the Federal Government’s Bureau investigates passport and visa primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the foreign fraud, conducts personnel security affairs community. In addition to the investigations, and issues security Department of State, the Institute clearances. It protects the Secretary of provides training for more than 40 other State, the U.S. Ambassador to the United governmental agencies. The Institute’s Nations, and many cabinet-level foreign more than 400 courses, including 60 dignitaries and other foreign officials foreign language courses, range in length who visit the United States. The Bureau from one day to 2 years. The courses are also assists foreign Embassies and designed to promote successful consulates in the United States in the performance in each professional protection of their diplomats and assignment, to ease the adjustment to facilities, and arranges for training in the other countries and cultures, and to United States for foreign civilian police enhance the leadership and management who return to their own countries better capabilities of the foreign affairs able to fight terrorism. community. For further information, contact the Bureau of For further information, contact the Foreign Service Diplomatic Security. Phone, 202–663–0067. Fax, Institute. Phone, 703–302–6729. Fax, 703–302– 202–663–0100. Internet, www.ds.state.gov. 7227.

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Intelligence and Research The Bureau implementation of U.S. multilateral coordinates the activities of U.S. policy. intelligence agencies to ensure that their For further information, call 202–647–1663. Fax, overseas activities are consistent with 202–647–1544. U.S. foreign policy objectives and interests. It organizes seminars on topics Medical Services The Office of Medical of high interest to policymakers and the Services develops, manages, and staffs a intelligence community and monitors worldwide primary health care system and analyzes foreign public and media for U.S. citizen employees and their opinion on key issues. eligible dependents residing overseas. In support of its overseas operations, the For further information, call 202–647–1080. Office approves and monitors the medical evacuation of patients, conducts International Narcotics and Law pre-employment and in-service physical Enforcement The Bureau of examinations, and provides clinical International Narcotics and Law referral and advisory services. The Office Enforcement Affairs is responsible for also provides for emergency medical developing, coordinating, and response in the event of a crisis at an implementing international narcotics overseas post. control and anticrime assistance activities of the Department of State. It For further information, call 202–663–1748. provides advice on international Nonproliferation The Nonproliferation narcotics control matters for the Office Bureau leads the U.S. Government’s of Management and Budget, the efforts to prevent the proliferation of National Security Council, and the weapons of mass destruction, their White House Office of National Drug delivery systems, and advanced Control Policy and ensures conventional arms. The Bureau is implementation of U.S. policy in responsible for nuclear nonproliferation international narcotics matters. The through support of the International Bureau also provides guidance on Atomic Energy Agency, implementing narcotics control and anticrime matters the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to chiefs of missions and directs securing nuclear materials in the New narcotics control coordinators at posts Independent States of the former Soviet abroad. It communicates or authorizes Union, disposing of stockpiles of fissile communication, as appropriate, with materials, advancing civil nuclear foreign governments on drug control and cooperation under safe and sound anticrime matters including negotiating, conditions, and promoting nuclear safety concluding, and terminating agreements and effective protection, control, and relating to international narcotics control accounting of nuclear material and anticrime programs. worldwide. The Bureau is also responsible for developing and For further information, contact the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement implementing all policies to curb the Affairs. Phone, 202–776–8750. Fax, 202–776–8775. proliferation of chemical and biological weapons and missiles, and promoting International Organizations The restraint in transfers of conventional Bureau of International Organization arms. It also pursues regional and Affairs provides guidance and support for bilateral initiatives and negotiations U.S. participation in international designed to reduce proliferation organizations and conferences and pressures and destabilizing arms formulates and implements U.S. policy acquisitions, including negotiations with toward international organizations, with respect to Russia, China, South Asia, the particular emphasis on those Middle East, and the Korean Peninsula. organizations which make up the United For further information, contact the Bureau of Nations system. It provides direction in Nonproliferation. Phone, 202–647–8699. Fax, 202– the development, coordination, and 736–4863.

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Oceans, Environment, and Science The Department of Defense and is the Bureau of Oceans, and International Department of State’s lead on Environmental and Scientific Affairs operational military matters regarding the (OES) serves as the foreign policy focal global war on terrorism. The Bureau point for international oceans, formulates and implements policies on environmental, and scientific efforts. OES international security, diplomatic aspects projects, protects, and promotes U.S. of military operations, global interests in these areas by issues, critical infrastructure protection, articulating U.S. foreign policy, and arms transfers. Its responsibilities encouraging international cooperation, also include regional security, and negotiating treaties and other confidence and security-building instruments of international law. The measures, small arms and light weapons Bureau serves as the principal adviser to policies, security assistance, the Secretary of State on international humanitarian demining programs, environment, science, and technology matters and takes the lead in contingency planning, burden-sharing coordinating and brokering diverse negotiations, and allocating security interests in the interagency process, assistance funds to support foreign policy where the development of international goals and the military capabilities of policies or the negotiation and friends and allies. implementation of relevant international For further information, contact the Bureau of agreements are concerned. The Bureau Political-Military Affairs. Phone, 202–647–5104. seeks to promote the peaceful Fax, 202–736–4413. Internet, www.state.gov/www/ exploitation of outer space, protect global/arms/bureaupm.html. public health from reemerging infectious Population, Refugees, and Migration diseases, encourage government to The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and government scientific cooperation, and Migration has primary responsibility for prevent the destruction and degradation formulating U.S. policies on population, of the planet’s natural resources and the global environment. refugees, and migration and for administering U.S. refugee assistance For further information, contact the Bureau of and admissions programs. It administers Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Phone, 202–647–0978. Fax, 202– and monitors U.S. contributions to 647–0217. multilateral organizations and Overseas Building Operations The nongovernmental organizations to Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations provide assistance and protection to (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas refugees abroad. The Bureau oversees buildings program for the Department of the annual admissions of refugees to the State and the U.S. Government United States for permanent resettlement, community serving abroad under the working closely with the Immigration authority of the chiefs of mission. Along and Naturalization Service, the with the input and support of other State Department of Health and Human Department bureaus, foreign affairs Services, and various State and private agencies, and Congress, OBO sets voluntary agencies. It coordinates U.S. worldwide priorities for the design, international population policy and construction, acquisition, maintenance, promotes its goals through bilateral and use, and sale of real properties and the multilateral cooperation. It works closely use of sales proceeds. with the U.S. Agency for International For further information, contact the Bureau of Development, which administers U.S. Overseas Buildings Operations. Phone, 703–875– 4131. Fax, 703–875–5043. Internet, www.state.gov/ international population programs. The obo. Bureau also coordinates U.S. international migration policy within the Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is the Department of State’s link with the

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U.S. Government and through bilateral international arms control, and multilateral diplomacy. nonproliferation, and disarmament For further information, contact the Bureau of agreements and commitments. It is Population, Refugees, and Migration. Phone, 202– responsible for the preparation of the 663–1071. Fax, 202–663–1061. Internet, President’s Annual Report to Congress www.state.gov/www/global/prm/index.html. on Adherence to and Compliance with Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the Arms Control and Nonproliferation principal adviser to the U.S. Agreements and Commitments, for Government, the President, the Vice verifiability assessments for international President, and the Secretary of State on arms control and nonproliferation matters of diplomatic procedure agreements, and for specialized governed by law or international custom compliance reports required by Senate and practice. The Office is responsible resolutions of ratification. The Bureau for: participates in interagency groups and —visits of foreign chiefs of state, heads organizations that assess, analyze, or of government, and other high officials review U.S. planned or ongoing policies, to the United States; programs, and resources that have a —organizing credential presentations direct bearing on verification or of newly arrived Ambassadors to the compliance matters, and it deals directly President and to the Secretary of State. with the intelligence community on —operation of the President’s guest verification related policy issues. house, Blair House; For further information, contact the Bureau of —delegations representing the Verification and Compliance. Phone, 202–647– President at official ceremonies abroad; 5315. Fax, 202–647–1321. —conducting official ceremonial functions and public events; Foreign Service To a great extent the —official interpretation of the order of future of our country depends on the precedence; relations we have with other countries, —conducting an outreach program of and those relations are conducted cultural enrichment and substantive principally by the U.S. Foreign Service. briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; Trained representatives stationed —accreditation of over 100,000 worldwide provide the President and the Embassy, consular, international Secretary of State with much of the raw organization, and other foreign material from which foreign policy is Government personnel, members of their made and with the recommendations families, and domestics throughout the that help shape it. United States; Ambassadors are the personal —determining entitlement to representatives of the President and diplomatic or consular immunity; report to the President through the —publication of diplomatic and Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full consular lists; responsibility for implementation of U.S. —resolution of problems arising out of foreign policy by any and all U.S. diplomatic or consular immunity such as Government personnel within their legal and police matters; and country of assignment, except those —approving the opening of Embassy under military commands. Their and consular offices in conjunction with responsibilities include negotiating the Office of Foreign Missions. agreements between the United States and the host country, explaining and For further information, contact the Office of the disseminating official U.S. policy, and Chief of Protocol. Phone, 202–647–2663. Fax, 202– 647–1560. maintaining cordial relations with that country’s government and people. Verification and Compliance The A listing of Foreign Service posts, Bureau of Verification and Compliance together with addresses and telephone provides oversight of both policy and numbers and key personnel, appears in resources of all matters relating to Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— verification of compliance with Guide for Business Representatives,

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which is for sale by the Superintendent United States Diplomatic Offices— of Documents, Government Printing Foreign Service—Continued Office, Washington, DC 20402. (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) Country/Embassy Ambassador United States Diplomatic Offices— Foreign Service Fiji/Suva ...... (Vacancy) (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) Finland/Helsinki ...... Bonnie McElveen- Hunter Country/Embassy Ambassador France/Paris ...... Howard H. Leach Gabonese Republic/Libreville ..... Kenneth P. Moorefield Afghanistan/Kabul ...... Robert Patrick Finn Gambia/Banjul ...... Jackson Chester Albania/Tirana ...... Joseph Limprecht McDonald Algeria/Algiers ...... Janet A. Sanderson Georgia/Tbilisi ...... Richard Monroe Miles Andorra/Andorra La Vella ...... George L. Argyros, Sr. Germany/Berlin ...... Daniel R. Coats Angola/Luanda ...... Christopher William Dell / ...... Nancy J. Powell Antigua and Barbuda/St. John’s Earl Norfleet Phillips Greece/Athens ...... Thomas J. Miller (N). Grenada/St. George (N) ...... Earl Norfleet Phillips Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... James D. Walsh /Guatemala ...... Armenia/Yerevan ...... John Malcolm Ordway Guinea/Conakry ...... R. Barrie Walkley Australia/Canberra ...... John Thomas Schieffer Guinea-Bissau/Bissau (N) ...... Harriet Elam-Thomas Austria/Vienna ...... Lyons Brown, Jr. Guyana/Georgetown ...... Ronald Godard Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Ross Wilson Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... B. Dean Curran Bahamas/Nassau ...... J. Richard Blankenship Holy See/Vatican City ...... Jim Nicholson Bahrain/Manama ...... Ronald E. Neumann Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... Frank Almaguer Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... Mary Ann Peters Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... Michael Klosson Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Earl Norfleet Phillips Hungary/Budapest ...... Nancy Goodman Belarus/Minsk ...... Michael Kozak Brinker Belgium/Brussels ...... Stephen Brauer Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Barbara Griffiths Belize/Belize City ...... Russell F. Freeman India/New Delhi ...... Robert D. Blackwill Benin/Cotonou ...... Pamela E. Bridgewater Indonesia/Jakarta ...... Ralph Leo Boyce, Jr. Bolivia/La Paz ...... V. Manuel Rocha Ireland/Dublin ...... Richard Egan Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sara- Clifford G. Bond Israel/Tel Aviv ...... Daniel C. Kurtzer jevo. /Rome ...... Melvin Sembler Botswana/Gaborone ...... John E. Lange /Kingston ...... Sue McCourt Cobb Brazil/Brasilia ...... Donna Jean Hrinak Japan/Tokyo ...... Howard H. Baker, Jr. Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Sylvia Gaye Stanfield Jerusalem ...... Ronald Schlicher Begawan. Jordan/Amman ...... Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. Bulgaria/Sofia ...... James W. Pardew Kazakstan/Almaty ...... Larry C. Napper Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Jimmy Kolker / ...... Burma/Rangoon-CDIA ...... Priscilla Clapp Kiribati/Tarawa (N) ...... Michael J. Senko /Bujumbura ...... Mary Carlin Yates Korea/Seoul ...... Thomas C. Hubbard Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Kent Wiedemann Kosovo/Pristina ...... John K. Menzies Cameroon/Yaounde ...... George McDade Sta- Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Richard Henry Jones ples Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... John O’Keefe Canada/Ottawa ...... Argeo Paul Cellucci Laos/Vientiane ...... Douglas Alan Hartwick Cape Verde/Prala ...... Michael Metelitis Latvia/Riga ...... Brian E. Carlson Central African Republic/Bangui Mattie R. Sharpless Lebanon/Beirut ...... Vincent Martin Battle /N’Djamena ...... Christopher E. Lesotho/Maseru ...... Robert Geers Loftis Goldthwait Liberia/Monrovia ...... Bismarck Myrick Chile/ ...... William R. Brownfield Liechtenstein/Vaduz ...... Mercer Reynolds China/Beijing ...... Clark T. Randt, Jr. Lithuania/Vilnius ...... John Tefft Colombia/Bogota ...... Anne Patterson Luxembourg/Luxembourg ...... Peter Terpeluk, Jr. Comoros/Moroni (N) ...... John Price Macedonia/Skopje ...... Lawrence E. Butler Congo, Democratic Republic of Aubrey Hooks Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... Wanda Nesbitt the (formerly )/. Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Roger A. Meece Congo, Republic of/Brazzaville .. David H. Kaeuper Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur ...... Marie T. Huhtala Costa Rica/San Jose ...... John J. Danilovich Maldives/Male (N) ...... E. Ashley Wills Cote d’Ivoire/ ...... Arlene Render Mali/Bamako ...... Michael Ranneberger Croatia/Zagreb ...... Lawrence George Malta/Valletta ...... Anthony Horace Gioia Rossin Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... Michael J. Senko Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interests Vickie Huddleston Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... John W. Limbert Section). Mauritius/Port Louis ...... John Price Cyprus/Nicosia ...... Donald Bandler /Mexico City ...... Jeffrey Davidow Czech Republic/Prague ...... Craig Robert Stapleton Micronesia/Kolonia ...... Larry Miles Dinger Denmark/Copenhagen ...... Stuart A. Bernstein Moldova/Chisinau ...... Pamela Hyde Smith , Republic of/Djibouti ...... Donald Yamamoto Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar ...... John R. Dinger Dominica/Roseau (N) ...... Earl N. Phillips Morocco/Rabat ...... Margaret DeBardeleben Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Hans H. Hertell Tutwiler mingo. Mozambique/Maputo ...... Sharon Wilkinson Ecuador/Quito ...... (Vacancy) Namibia/Windhoek ...... Kevin Joseph McGuire Egypt/Cairo ...... C. David Welch Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... (Vacancy) El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Rose Likins Nepal/Kathmandu ...... Michael J. Malinowski Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... George McDade Sta- Netherlands/The Hague ...... Clifford M. Sobel ples New Zealand/Wellington ...... Charles J. Swindells /Asmara ...... Donald J. McConnell Nicaragua/Managua ...... Oliver P. Garza Estonia/Tallinn ...... Joseph DeThomas Niger/Niamey ...... Barbro Owens-Kirk- / ...... Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. patrick

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Country/Embassy Ambassador Country/Embassy Ambassador

Nigeria/Abuja ...... Howard Jeter Togo/Lome ...... Karl W. Hofmann Norway/Oslo ...... John D. Ong Tonga/Nuku’alofa (N) ...... (Vacancy) Oman/Muscat ...... (Vacancy) Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Roy L. Austin Pakistan/Islamabad ...... Wendy Jean Spain. Chamberlin Tunisia/Tunis ...... Rust Deming Palau/Koror ...... Francis Joseph Turkey/Ankara ...... W. Robert Pearson Ricciardone, Jr. Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Laura E. Kennedy Panama/Panama ...... (Vacancy) Tuvalu/Funafuti (N) ...... (Vacancy) Papua New Guinea/Port Susan S. Jacobs Uganda/Kampala ...... Martin Brennan Moresby. Ukraine/Kiev ...... Carlos Pascual Paraguay/Asuncion ...... David Greenlee United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi Marcelle M. Wahba Peru/Lima ...... John R. Hamilton United Kingdom/London ...... William S. Farish Philippines/Manila ...... Francis J. Ricciardone, Uruguay/Montevideo ...... Martin J. Silverstein Jr. Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... John Herbst Poland/Warsaw ...... Christopher Robert Hill Vanuatu/Port Vila (N) ...... Susan S. Jacobs Portugal/Lisbon ...... John N. Palmer /Caracas ...... Charles S. Shapiro Qatar/Doha ...... Maureen Quinn Vietnam/Hanoi ...... Raymond F. Burghardt Romania/Bucharest ...... Michael E. Guest Yemen/Sanaa ...... Edmund James Hull Russian Federation/Moscow ...... Alexander R. Vershbow Yugoslavia/Belgrade ...... William Dale Mont- /Kigali ...... Margaret McMillion gomery St. Kitts and Nevis (N) ...... Earl Norfleet Phillips / ...... David Dunn St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Earl Norfleet Phillips / ...... Joseph Gerard Sullivan St. Vincent and the Grenadines Earl Norfleet Phillips (N). Samoa/Apia ...... Charles J. Swindells United States Permanent Diplomatic Sao Tome and Principe/Sao Kenneth P. Moorefield Missions to International Organizations Tome (N). Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... Robert W. Jordan Organization Ambassador Senegal/Dakar ...... Harriet Elam-Thomas Seychelles/Victoria ...... John Price European Union/Brussels ...... Rockwell A. Schnabel Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... Peter R. Chaveas International Civil Aviation Orga- Edward Stimpson Singapore/Singapore ...... Franklin L. Lavin nization. Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Ronald Weiser North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- R. Nicholas Burns Slovenia/Ljubljana ...... Johny Young tion/Brussels. Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Susan S. Jacobs Organization of American States/ Roger Francisco /Pretoria ...... Cameron Hume Washington, DC. Noriega Spain/Madrid ...... George L. Argyros, Sr. Organization for Economic Co- Jeanne L. Phillips Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... E. Ashley Wills operation and Development/ Sudan/Khartoum ...... (Vacancy) Paris. Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Daniel A. Johnson Organization for Security and Stephan Michael Swaziland/Mbabane ...... James David McGee Co-operation in Europe/Vienna. Minikes Sweden/Stockholm ...... Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. United Nations/Geneva ...... Kevin E. Moley Switzerland/Bern ...... Mercer Reynolds United Nations/New York ...... John D. Negroponte Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Theodore H. Kattouf United Nations/Vienna ...... Kenneth C. Brill Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... Franklin Pierce Huddle U.S. Mission to United Nations (Vacancy) Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... Robert Royall Agencies for Food and Agri- Thailand/Bangkok ...... Darryl Norman Johnson culture.

Sources of Information

Contracts General inquiries may be Electronic Access The Department’s directed to the Office of Acquisitions Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Management (A/LM/AQM), Department Communication, coordinates the of State, P.O. Box 9115, Arlington, VA dissemination of public electronic 22219. Phone, 703–875–6060. Fax, information for the Department. The 703–875–6085. main Web site (Internet, www.state.gov) Diplomatic and Official Passports and the Secretary’s Web site (Internet, Inquiries regarding diplomatic and secretary.state.gov) provide official passports should be directed to comprehensive, up-to-date information Passport Services, Special Issuance on foreign policy, support for U.S. Agency. Phone, 202–955–0198. businesses, careers, the counterterrorism rewards program, and much more.

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The Bureau of Consular Affairs Web Directions to the reading room may be site (Internet, travel.state.gov) provides obtained from receptionists at public travel warnings and other information entrances to the Department. designed to help Americans travel safely Additional information about the abroad, as well as information on U.S. Department’s FOIA program can be passports and visas and downloadable applications. The Bureau of Intelligence found on the FOIA electronic reading and Research has established a room (Internet, foia.state.gov). geographic learning Web site (Internet, Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of geography.state.gov/index.html), to assist Americans Abroad For information in teaching geography and foreign affairs concerning missing persons, to students in grades K–12. emergencies, travel warnings, overseas The State Department Electronic voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or Reading Room at foia.state.gov uses new deaths of Americans abroad, contact the information technologies to enable Office of American Citizens Services and access to unique historical records of Crisis Management, Department of State. international significance which have Phone, 202–647–5225. Fax, 202–647– been made available to the public under 3732. Internet, travel.state.gov. the Freedom of Information Act or as a Correspondence should be directed to: special collection. Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of Employment Inquiries about Consular Affairs, Department of State, employment in the Foreign Service Washington, DC 20520. should be directed to HR/REE/REC, Inquiries regarding international Room H–518, 2401 E Street NW, parental child abduction or adoption of Washington, DC 20522. Phone, 202– foreign children by private U.S. citizens 261–8888. Internet, should be directed to the Office of www.careers.state.gov. Information Children’s Issues, CA/OCS/CI, SA–22, about civil service positions in the Suite 2100, 1800 G Street, NW, Department of State and copies of civil Department of State, Washington, DC service job announcements can be accessed through the Internet, at 20520. Phone, 202–312–9700. Fax, www.careers.state.gov. Individual 202–312–9743 (child abduction questions may be directed to inquiries) or 202–312–9741 (adoption [email protected]. Job information staff inquiries). Internet, travel.state.gov. is also available to answer questions Passports Passport information is from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm eastern time available through the Internet, at on Federal workdays. Phone, 202–663– travel.state.gov. For recorded general 2176. passport information, contact any of the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Regional Passport Agencies at the Act Requests Requests from the public telephone numbers listed in the for Department of State records should following table. For passport assistance be addressed to the Director, Office of and information, you may call the IRM Programs and Services, Department National Passport Information Center of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty-second Street (phone, 900–225–5674; TDD, 900–225– NW., Washington, DC 20522–6001. 7778) and you will be charged 35 cents Phone, 202–261–8300. Individuals are per minute to listen to automated requested to indicate on the outside of messages and $1.05 per minute to speak the envelope the statute under which with an operator. You may also call the they are requesting access: FOIA National Passport Information Center REQUEST or PRIVACY REQUEST. using a major credit card at a flat rate of A public reading room, where $4.95 (phone, 888–362–8668; TDD, unclassified and declassified documents 888–498–3648). These rates are subject may be inspected, is located in the to change. Correspondence should be Department of State, SA–2, 515 Twenty- directed to the appropriate Regional second Street NW., Washington, DC Agency or the Correspondence Branch, 20522–6001. Phone, 202–261–8484. Passport Services, Room 510, 1111

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Nineteenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20524. Regional Passport Agencies

City Address Telephone

Boston, MA ...... 10 Causeway St., 02222 ...... 617Ð878Ð0900 Charleston, SC ...... Bldg. 646A, 1969 Dyess Ave., 29405 ...... 843Ð308Ð5501 Chicago, IL ...... 230 S. Dearborn St., 60604 ...... 312Ð341Ð6020 Honolulu, HI ...... 1132 Bishop St., 96850 ...... 808Ð522Ð8283 Houston, TX ...... Suite 1400, 1919 Smith St., 77002 ...... 713Ð751Ð0294 Los Angeles, CA ...... Suite 1000, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., 90024Ð3615 ...... 310Ð575Ð5700 Miami, FL ...... 3d Fl., 51 SW. 1st Ave., 33130 ...... 305Ð539Ð3600 New Orleans, LA ...... 305 Canal St., 70130 ...... 504Ð412Ð2600 New York, NY ...... 10th Fl., 376 Hudson St., 10014 ...... 212Ð206Ð3500 Philadelphia, PA ...... Rm. 103, 200 Chestnut St., 19106 ...... 215Ð418Ð5937 Portsmouth, NH ...... National Passport Center, 31 Rochester Ave., 03801Ð2900 ...... 603Ð334Ð0500 San Francisco, CA ...... 5th Fl., 95 Hawthorne St., 94105Ð3901 ...... 415Ð538Ð2700 Seattle, WA ...... Suite 992, 915 2d Ave., 98174 ...... 206Ð808Ð5700 Stamford, CT ...... 1 Landmark Sq., Broad & Atlantic Sts., 06901 ...... 203Ð969Ð9000 Washington, DC ...... 1111 19th St. NW., 20524 ...... 202Ð647Ð0518

Public Affairs For information about that U.S. consular officers can and the goals, development, and cannot provide. This booklet is free from implementation of U.S. foreign policy, the Department of State, Consular contact the Bureau of Public Affairs. Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 6831, Phone, 202–647–6575. Washington, DC 20520. Publications Publications that are Travel Tips for Older Americans produced on a regular basis include contains basic information on passports, Background Notes and the Foreign currency, health, aid for serious Relations series. The Bureau of Public problems, and other useful travel tips for Affairs also occasionally publishes senior citizens. brochures and other publications to Your Trip Abroad ($1.50) contains inform the public of U.S. diplomatic basic information on passports, efforts. All publications are available on vaccinations, unusual travel the Internet at www.state.gov. requirements, dual nationality, drugs, Small Business Information Information modes of travel, customs, legal about doing business with the requirements, and many other topics for Department of State is available from the the American tourist, business representative, or student traveling Office of Small and Disadvantaged overseas. Business Utilization. Phone, 703–875– A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful 6822. Internet, www.statebuy.gov/ precautions to minimize one’s chances home.htm. of becoming a victim of terrorism and Telephone Directory The Department’s also provides other safety tips. telephone directory is available for sale Tips for Americans Residing Abroad by the Superintendent of Documents, contains advice for almost 4 million Government Printing Office, Americans living in foreign countries. Washington, DC 20402. Regional Tips for Travelers cover Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The customs, currency regulations, dual following pamphlets from the Bureau of nationality, and other local conditions. Consular Affairs are posted on the Currently available are: Tips for Travelers Internet at travel.state.gov and are for to Canada; Tips for Travelers to the sale for $1–$1.75. (except where noted) Caribbean; Tips for Travelers to Mexico; by the Superintendent of Documents, Tips for Travelers to the Middle East and U.S. Government Printing Office, North Africa ($1.50); Tips for Travelers Washington, DC 20402: to the People’s Republic of China; Tips Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad for Travelers to Russia; Tips for Travelers contains important facts on the potential to South Asia; Tips for Travelers to dangers of being arrested for illegal Central and South America; and Tips for drugs abroad and the type of assistance Travelers to Sub-Saharan Africa ($1.50).

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Foreign Entry Requirements contains Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, visa and other entry requirements of CO 81009 (50 cents each). foreign countries. Passports: Applying for Visas To obtain information on visas Them the Easy Way contains information for foreigners wishing to enter the United on where, how, and when to apply for States, call 202–663–1225. Internet, passports. Order these from the 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. Fax, 202–647–7120. Internet, www.state.gov.

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