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SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER Chief of Staff THOMAS E. DONILON Executive Assistant to the Secretary ROBERT BRADTKE Special Assistant to the Secretary and KENNETH C. BRILL Executive Secretary of the Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal DEIDRE A. DAVIS Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights Chief of Protocol MOLLY M. RAISER Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Board JAMES OLDHAM Civil Service Ombudsman CATHERINE W. BROWN Deputy Secretary of State STROBE TALBOTT Under Secretary for Political Affairs PETER TARNOFF Under Secretary for Economic and JOAN E. SPERO Agricultural Affairs Under Secretary for Global Affairs TIMOTHY E. WIRTH Under Secretary for Arms Control and LYNN E. DAVIS International Security Affairs Under Secretary for Management RICHARD M. MOOSE Assistant Secretary for Administration PATRICK F. KENNEDY Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs MARY A. RYAN Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security ANTHONY C.E. QUAINTON Chief Financial Officer RICHARD L. GREENE Director General of the Foreign Service and GENTA HAWKINS HOLMES Director of Personnel Medical Director, Department of State and ELMER F. RIGAMER, M.D. the Foreign Service Executive Secretary, Board of the Foreign LEWIS A. LUKENS Service Director of the Foreign Service Institute (VACANCY) Director, Office of Foreign Missions ERIC JAMES BOSWELL Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, PHYLLIS E. OAKLEY and Migration Affairs Inspector General JACQUELINE L. WILLIAMS-BRIDGER Director, Policy Planning Staff JAMES B. STEINBERG Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs WENDY RUTH SHERMAN Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human JOHN SHATTUCK Rights and Labor Legal Adviser CONRAD K. HARPER Assistant Secretary for African Affairs GEORGE MOOSE Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific WINSTON LORD Affairs Assistant Secretary for European and RICHARD HOLBROOKE Canadian Affairs Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs ALEXANDER F. WATSON 400 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 401

Permanent Representative of the United HARRIET C. BABBITT States of America to the Organization of American States Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs ROBERT H. PELLETREAU Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs ROBIN L. RAPHEL Assistant Secretary for Economic and DANIEL K. TARULLO Business Affairs Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and TOBY TRISTER GATI Research Assistant Secretary for International (VACANCY) Organization Affairs Assistant Secretary for Oceans and ELINOR G. CONSTABLE International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs THOMAS E. DONILON Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Politico- THOMAS E. MCNAMARA Military Affairs Assistant Secretary for International ROBERT S. GELBARD Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs U.S. Coordinator, International VONYA B. MCCANN Communications and Information Policy

United States Mission to the United Nations 1

799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

United States Representative to the United MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT Nations and Representative in the Security Council Deputy United States Representative to the EDWARD GNEHM, JR. United Nations Deputy United States Representative in the DAVID E. BIRENBAUM Security Council United States Representative on the VICTOR MARRERO Economic and Social Council Alternate Representative for Special Political KARL F. INDERFURTH Affairs in the United Nations [For the Department of State statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 5]

The Department of State advises the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy. As Chief Executive, the President has overall responsibility for the foreign policy of the United States. The Department of State’s primary objective in the conduct of foreign relations is to promote the long-range security and well-being of the United States. The Department determines and analyzes the facts relating to American overseas interests, makes recommendations on policy and future action, and takes the necessary steps to carry out established policy. In so doing, the Department engages in continuous consultations with the American public, the

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

AGENCY FOR SECRETARY INTERNATIONAL OF STATE DEVELOPMENT UNITED STATES UNITED STATES PERMANENT INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVE TO AGENCY THE UNITED NATIONS ARMS CONTROL AND DEPUTY SECRETARY DISARMAMENT AGENCY

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT COORDINATOR FOR POLICY EXECUTIVE OPPORTUNITY AND COUNTERÐ CHIEF OF STAFF PROTOCOL PLANNING SECRETARY CIVIL RIGHTS TERRORISM COUNCIL

UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC FOR ARMS CONTROL UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AND AGRICULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL FOR MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRS SECURITY AFFAIRS

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICALÐ DEMOCRACY, AFRICAN FOREIGN MISSIONS BUSINESS MILITARY HUMAN RIGHTS, AFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRS FOREIGN SERVICE AND LABOR INSTITUTE

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

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

INTERÐ POPULATION, DIPLOMATIC AMERICAN REFUGEES, SECURITY AFFAIRS AND MIGRATION

NEAR FINANCE AND EASTERN MANAGEMENT AFFAIRS POLICY

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

MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS FAMILY LIAISON OFFICE

PERSONNEL

INTELLIGENCE INSPECTOR LEGISLATIVE LEGAL ADVISER AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS GENERAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH

DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR, AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND DELEGATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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Congress, other U.S. departments and agencies, and foreign governments; negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign nations; speaks for the United States in the United Nations and in more than 50 major international organizations in which the United States participates; and represents the United States at more than 800 international conferences annually.

The Department of State, the senior areas where public purposes are widely executive department of the U.S. applied are detailed below and on the Government, was established by act of following pages. July 27, 1789, as the Department of Economic and Agricultural Affairs The Foreign Affairs and was renamed Under Secretary for Economic and Department of State by act of September Agricultural Affairs is principal adviser to 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note). the Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the formulation and conduct of foreign Office of the Secretary economic policy. Specific areas for Secretary of State The Secretary of which the Under Secretary is responsible State, the principal foreign policy adviser include international trade, agriculture, to the President, is responsible for the energy, finance, transportation, and overall direction, coordination, and relations with developing countries. supervision of U.S. foreign relations and International Security Affairs The for the interdepartmental activities of the Under Secretary for International U.S. Government overseas. The Security Affairs is responsible for Secretary is the first-ranking member of assuring the integration of all elements of the Cabinet, is a member of the National the Foreign Assistance Program as an Security Council, and is in charge of the effective instrument of U.S. foreign operations of the Department, including policy and serves as Chairman of the the Foreign Service. The Office of the Arms Transfer Management Group. The Secretary includes the offices of the Under Secretary is also responsible for Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries, international scientific and technological Assistant Secretaries, Counselor, Legal issues, communications and information Adviser, and Inspector General. Some policy, and technology transfers.

Regional Bureaus

Six Assistant Secretaries direct the Groups in the National Security Council activities of the geographic bureaus, system. These groups discuss and decide which are responsible for our foreign issues that can be settled at the Assistant affairs activities throughout the world. Secretary level, including those arising These are the Bureaus of African Affairs, out of the implementation of National European and Canadian Affairs, East Security Council decisions. They prepare Asian and Pacific Affairs, Inter-American Affairs, and Near Eastern Affairs, and policy papers for consideration by the South Asian Affairs. Council and contingency papers on The regional Assistant Secretaries also potential crisis areas for Council review. serve as Chairmen of Interdepartmental

Functional Areas

Diplomatic Security The Bureau of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Diplomatic Security, established under Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as amended 404 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

(22 U.S.C. 4803 et seq.), provides a and timely exchange of information secure environment for conducting between the private sector and the American diplomacy and promoting Department concerning developments in American interests worldwide. protective security. Additionally, it The Assistant Secretary of State for recommends methods and provides Diplomatic Security is responsible for: material for coordinating security —security and protective operations planning and implementation of security abroad and in the United States; programs. —counter-terrorism planning and The Office of Policy, Planning, and coordination; Budget assists in developing and —security technology development; coordinating Department and —foreign government security training; interagency security policy issues and and —personnel training. standards through participation in The Security Awareness Staff directs committees, councils, and working the development and execution of groups and in providing assistance to Bureauwide security and information Diplomatic Security program offices by awareness policies and programs, press resolving policy inconsistencies. and media relations, and public For further information, call 703–204–6217. awareness. The Security Awareness Program provides information on Economic and Business Affairs The diplomatic security concerns and is a Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs focal point for responding to public has overall responsibility for formulating inquiries and maintaining media and implementing policy regarding relations on diplomatic security issues foreign economic matters, including and events. The Training Support resource and food policy, international Division provides publications and energy issues, trade, economic sanctions, training videotapes on diplomatic international finance and development, security concerns. and aviation and maritime affairs. The Private Sector Liaison Staff For further information, call 202–647–2720. maintains daily contact with and actively supports the U.S. private sector by Finance and Management Policy The disseminating timely, unclassified Bureau of Finance and Management security information concerning the Policy is directed by the Chief Financial safety of U.S. private sector personnel, Officer (CFO), who serves as the facilities, and operations abroad. The Department’s Budget Officer and Staff operates the Electronic Bulletin Management Control Officer and assists Board, a computerized, unclassified in managing the Department and its security information data base accessible posts. The CFO, assisted by well- to U.S. private sector enterprises. It also qualified and well-trained financial provides direct consultation services to management personnel, establishes the private sector concerning security effective management policies and threats abroad. internal controls; ensures adequate The Overseas Security Advisory systems to produce useful, reliable, and Council promotes cooperation on timely financial and related security-related issues between the programmatic information; develops American private sector interests useful financial analysis and worldwide and the Department of State, performance reports; and integrates as provided in 22 U.S.C. 2656 and the budget execution and accounting Federal Advisory Committee Act, as functions. amended (5 U.S.C. app.). The Council For further information, call 202–647–6778. establishes continuing liaison and provides for operational security Foreign Service Institute The Foreign cooperation between Department Service Institute of the Department of security functions and the private sector. State is the Federal Government’s The Council also provides for regular primary training institution for officers DEPARTMENT OF STATE 405 and support personnel of the foreign developing, coordinating, and affairs community. In addition to the implementing international narcotics Department of State, the Institute control assistance activities of the provides training for more than 40 other Department of State as authorized under governmental agencies. The Institute’s sections 481 and 482 of the Foreign more than 300 courses, including 60 Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 language courses, range in length from U.S.C. 2291, 2292). It is the principal several days to 2 years. The courses are point of contact and provides advice on designed to promote successful international narcotics control matters for performance in each professional the Office of Management and Budget, assignment, to ease the adjustment to the National Security Council, and the other countries and cultures, and to White House Office of National Drug enhance the leadership and management Control Policy in ensuring capabilities of the foreign affairs implementation of U.S. policy in community. international narcotics matters. For further information, call 703–302–6729. The Bureau provides guidance on narcotics control matters to chiefs of Intelligence and Research The Bureau missions and directs narcotics control of Intelligence and Research coordinates coordinators at posts abroad; programs of intelligence, analysis, and communicates or authorizes research for the Department and other communication, as appropriate with Federal agencies, and produces intelligence studies and current foreign governments, on drug control intelligence analyses essential to foreign matters including negotiating, policy determination and execution. concluding, and terminating agreements Through its Office of Research, the relating to international narcotics control Bureau maintains liaison with cultural programs as authorized by section 1(g)(3) and educational institutions and oversees of State Department Delegation of contract research and conferences on Authority No. 145 of February 4, 1980. foreign affairs subjects. For further information, call 202–647–3450. For further information, call 202–647–1080. International Organization Affairs The International Communications and Bureau of International Organization Information Policy The Bureau of Affairs provides guidance and support for International Communications and United States participation in Information Policy is the principal international organizations and adviser to the Secretary of State on conferences. It leads in the development, international telecommunications policy coordination, and implementation of issues affecting U.S. foreign policy and United States multilateral policy. The national security. The Bureau acts as Bureau formulates and implements coordinator with other U.S. Government United States policy toward international agencies and the private sector in the organizations, with particular emphasis formulation and implementation of on those organizations which make up international policies relating to a wide the United Nations system. range of rapidly evolving For further information, call 202–647–6400. communications and information technologies. The Bureau promotes U.S. Legal Adviser The Legal Adviser is the telecommunications interests bilaterally principal adviser to the Secretary and, and multilaterally. through the Secretary, to the President For further information, call 202–647–5832. on all matters of international law arising in the conduct of United States foreign International Narcotics and Law relations. The Legal Adviser also Enforcement Affairs The Bureau of provides general legal advice and International Narcotics and Law services to the Secretary and other Enforcement Affairs is responsible for officials of the Department on matters 406 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL with which the Department and overseas It acts as the Department’s primary posts are concerned. liaison with the Department of Defense. Medical Services The Office of Medical The Bureau also participates in all major Services develops, manages, and staffs a arms control, nonproliferation, and other worldwide primary health care system security-related negotiations. for U.S. citizen employees, and their The Bureau’s major activities are eligible dependents, residing abroad. designed to further U.S. national security Agencies which participate in this objectives by: stabilizing regional medical program include the military balances through negotiations Department of State, the U.S. and security assistance; negotiating Information Agency, the U.S. Agency for reductions in global inventories of International Development, and over 48 weapons of mass destruction and other foreign affairs agencies and offices. curbing their proliferation; maintaining In support of its overseas operations, the global access for U.S. military forces; Office approves and monitors the inhibiting adversaries’ access to militarily medical evacuation of patients, conducts significant technologies; and promoting pre-employment and in-service physical responsible U.S. defense trade. examinations, and provides clinical For further information, call 202–647–6968. referral and advisory services. Domestically, the Office offers Protocol The Chief of Protocol is the occupational health care, as well as principal adviser to the U.S. numerous health education and health Government, the President, the Vice maintenance programs. President, and the Secretary of State on matters of diplomatic procedure For further information, call 202–647–3617. governed by law or international custom Consular Affairs The Bureau of and practice. The Office is responsible Consular Affairs, under the direction of for: the Assistant Secretary, is responsible for —visits of foreign chiefs of state, heads the administration and enforcement of of government, and other high officials the provisions of the immigration and to the United States; nationality laws, insofar as they concern —operation of the President’s guest the Department and the Foreign Service, house, Blair House; for the issuance of passports and visas —delegations representing the and related services, and for the President at official ceremonies abroad; protection and welfare of American —conduct of official ceremonial citizens and interests abroad. functions and public events; Approximately 4 million passports a year —accreditation of over 100,000 are issued by the Passport Office of the embassy, consular, international Bureau, which has agencies in Boston, organization, and other foreign Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los government personnel and members of Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New their families throughout the United York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, States; Seattle, Stamford, and Washington, DC. —determining entitlement to For further information, see Sources of Information diplomatic or consular immunity; on page 409. —publication of diplomatic, mission Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of employee, and consular lists; Political-Military Affairs provides —resolution of problems arising out of guidance and coordinates policy diplomatic or consular immunity such as formulation on national security issues, legal and police matters; including: nonproliferation of weapons —approving the opening of consular of mass destruction and missile offices in conjunction with the Office of technology; nuclear and conventional Foreign Missions; arms control; defense relations and —official interpretation of the Order of security assistance; and export controls. 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—conducting an outreach program of —organizing credential presentations cultural enrichment and substantive of newly arrived Ambassadors to the briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; and President and to the Secretary of State. For further information, call 202–647–2663.

Foreign Service

To a great extent the future of our United States Diplomatic OfficesÐ country depends on the relations we Foreign Service have with other countries, and those (C: Consular Office; N: No Embassy or Consular Office) relations are conducted principally by Country/Embassy Ambassador the United States Foreign Service. Albania/Tirana ...... Joseph E. Lake Presently, representatives at 164 Algeria/Algiers ...... Ronald E. Neumann Angola/Luanda (N) ...... Edmond De Jarnette, Embassies, 10 missions, 3 U.S. liaison Jr. (Director) offices, 1 U.S. interests section, 70 Antigua and Barbuda/St. Johns . Jeanette W. Hyde Argentina/Buenos Aires ...... James R. Cheek consulates general, 20 consulates, 4 Armenia/Yerevan ...... Harry J. Gilmore branch offices, and 46 consular agencies Australia/Canberra ...... Edward J. Perkins Austria/Vienna ...... Swanee G. Hunt throughout the world report to the State Azerbaijan/Baku ...... Richard D. Kauzlarich Department on the multitude of foreign Bahamas/Nassau ...... Sidney Williams Bahrain/Manama ...... David M. Ransom developments that have a bearing on the Bangladesh/Dhaka ...... David N. Merrill welfare and security of the American Barbados/Bridgetown ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Belarus/Minsk ...... Kenneth S. Yalowitz people. These trained representatives Belgium/Brussels ...... Alan J. Blinken provide the President and the Secretary Belize/Belize City ...... George C. Bruno Benin/Cotonou ...... Ruth A. Davis of State with much of the raw material Bolivia/La Paz ...... Curt W. Kamman Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sara- Victor Jackovich from which foreign policy is made and jevo. with the recommendations that help Botswana/Gaborone ...... Howard F. Jeter Brazil/Brasilia ...... Melvyn Levitsky shape it. Brunei Darussalam/Bandar Seri Theresa A. Tull The Ambassador is the personal Begawan. Bulgaria/Sofia ...... William D. Montgomery representative of the President and Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou ...... Donald J. McConnell reports to the President through the Burundi/Bujumbura ...... Robert Krueger Cambodia/Phnom Penh ...... Charles H. Twining, Jr. Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full Cameroon/Yaounde ...... Harriet W. Isom Canada/Ottawa ...... James J. Blanchard responsibility for implementing the U.S. Cape Verde/Praia ...... Joseph M. Segars foreign policy by any and all U.S. Central African Republic/Bangui . Robert E. Gribbin III Chad/N'Djamena ...... Laurence E. Pope II Government personnel within their Chile/Santiago ...... Gabriel Guerra- country of assignment, except those Mondragon China, People's Republic of/ J. Stapleton Roy under military commands. Their Beijing. responsibilities include negotiating Colombia/Bogota ...... Myles R.R. Frechette Comoros, Federal and Islamic Leslie M. Alexander agreements between the United States Republic of the/Moroni (N). and the host country, explaining and Congo/Brazzaville ...... William C. Ramsay Costa Rica/San Jose ...... Peter J. de Vos disseminating official U.S. policy, and Cote d'Ivoire/Abidjan ...... Hume A. Horan maintaining cordial relations with that Croatia/Zagreb ...... Peter W. Galbraith Cuba/Havana (U.S. Interest Sec- Joseph G. Sullivan country’s government and people. tion). Cyprus/Nicosia ...... Robert A. Boucher A listing of Foreign Service posts, Czech Republic/Prague ...... Adrian A. Basora together with addresses and telephone Denmark/Copenhagen ...... Edward E. Elson Djibouti, Republic of/Djibouti ...... Martin L. Cheshes numbers and key personnel, appears in Dominica/Roseau (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts— Dominican Republic/Santo Do- Donna J. Hrinak mingo. Guide for Business Representatives, Ecuador/Quito ...... Peter F. Romero which is for sale by the Superintendent Egypt/Cairo ...... Edward S. Walker El Salvador/San Salvador ...... Alan H. Flanigan of Documents, Government Printing Equatorial Guinea/Malabo ...... John E. Bennett Office, Washington, DC 20402. Eritrea/Asmara ...... Robert G. Houdek 408 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

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

Country/Embassy Ambassador Country/Embassy Ambassador

Estonia/Tallinn ...... (Vacancy) Nigeria/Abuja ...... Walter C. Carrington Ethiopia/Addis Ababa ...... Irvin Hicks Norway/Oslo ...... Thomas A. Loftus Fiji/Suva ...... (Vacancy) Oman/Muscat ...... David J. Dunford Finland/Helsinki ...... Derek Shearer Pakistan/Islamabad ...... John C. Monjo France/Paris ...... Pamela Harriman Gabonese Republic (Resident Joseph C. Wilson IV Panama/Panama ...... (Vacancy) Libreville)/Libreville. Papua New Guinea/Port Richard W. Teare Gambia/Banjul ...... Andrew J. Winter Moresby. Georgia/Tbilisi ...... Kent N. Brown Paraguay/AsuncioÂn ...... Robert E. Service Germany, Federal Republic of/ Charles E. Redman Peru/Lima ...... Alvin P. Adams, Jr. Bonn. Philippines/Manila ...... John D. Negroponte Ghana/Accra ...... Kenneth L. Brown Poland/Warsaw ...... Nicholas A. Rey Greece/Athens ...... Thomas M.T. Niles Portugal/Lisbon ...... Elizabeth F. Bagley Grenada/St. George ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Qatar/Doha ...... Kenton W. Keith Guatemala/Guatemala ...... Marilyn McAfee Romania/Bucharest ...... Alfred H. Moses Guinea/Conakry ...... Joseph A. Saloom III Guinea-Bissau/Bissau ...... Roger A. McGuire Russian Federation/Moscow ...... Thomas R. Pickering Guyana, Cooperative Republic George F. Jones Rwanda/Kigali ...... David P. Rawson of/Georgetown. St. Kitts and Nevis ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Haiti/Port-au-Prince ...... William L. Swing St. Lucia/Castries (N) ...... Jeanette W. Hyde Holy See/Vatican City ...... Raymond L. Flynn St. Vincent and the Grenadines . Jeanette W. Hyde Honduras/Tegucigalpa ...... William T. Pryce Sao Tome and Principe/Sao Joseph C. Wilson IV Hong Kong/Hong Kong (C) ...... Richard W. Mueller Tome (N). Hungary/Budapest ...... Donald M. Blinken Saudi Arabia/Riyadh ...... Raymond E. Mabus, Jr. Iceland/Reykjavik ...... Parker W. Borg Senegal/Dakar ...... Mark Johnson India/New Delhi ...... Frank G. Wisner Seychelles, Republic of/Victoria . Carlton B. Stokes Indonesia/Jakarta ...... Robert L. Barry Sierra Leone/Freetown ...... Lauralee M. Peters Ireland/Dublin ...... Jean K. Smith Israel/Tel Aviv ...... Martin S. Indyk Singapore/Singapore ...... Timothy A. Chorba Italy/Rome ...... Reginald Bartholomew Slovak Republic/Bratislava ...... Theodore E. Russell Jamaica/Kingston ...... Jerome G. Cooper Slovenia/Ljubljana ...... E. Allan Wendt Japan/Tokyo ...... Walter F. Mondale Solomon Islands/Honiara ...... Richard W. Teare Jerusalem ...... Edward G. Abington Somali Democratic Republic/ Daniel H. Simpson Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of/ Wesley W. Egan Mogadishu. Amman. South Africa ...... Princeton N. Lyman Kazakhstan/Almaty ...... William H. Courtney Spain/Madrid ...... Richard N. Gardner Kenya/Nairobi ...... Aurelia E. Brazeal Sri Lanka/Colombo ...... Teresita C. Schaeffer Kiribati/Parawa (N) ...... (Vacancy) Sudan/Khartoum ...... Donald K. Petterson Korea/Seoul ...... James T. Laney Suriname/Paramaribo ...... Roger R. Gamble Kuwait/Kuwait ...... Ryan C. Crocker Swaziland/Mbabane ...... John T. Sprott Kyrgyz Republic/Bishkek ...... Eileen A. Malloy Lao People's Democratic Repub- Victor L. Tomseth Sweden/Stockholm ...... Thomas L. Siebert lic/Vientiane. Switzerland/Bern ...... M. Larry Lawrence Latvia/Riga ...... Ints M. Silins Syrian Arab Republic/Damascus Christopher W.S. Ross Lebanon/Beirut ...... Mark G. Hambley Tajikistan/Dushanbe ...... Stanley T. Escudero Lesotho/Maseru ...... Bismarck Myrick Tanzania/Dar es Salaam ...... Brady Anderson Liberia/Monrovia ...... William P. Twaddell Thailand/Bangkok ...... David F. Lambertson Lithuania/Vilnius ...... James W. Swihart, Jr. Togo/Lome ...... Johnny Young Luxembourg/Luxembourg ...... Clay Constantinou Tonga ...... (Vacancy) Madagascar/Antananarivo ...... Dennis P. Barrett Trinidad and Tobago/Port-of- Brian J. Donnelly Malawi/Lilongwe ...... Peter R. Chaveas Spain. Malaysia/Kuala Lampur ...... John S. Wolf Tunisia/Tunis ...... Mary Ann Casey Maldives/Male (N) ...... Teresita C. Schaffer Mali/Bamako ...... (Vacancy) Turkey/Ankara ...... Marc Grossman Malta/Valletta ...... Joseph R. Paolino, Jr. Turkmenistan/Ashgabat ...... Joseph S. Hulings III Marshall Islands/Majuro ...... David C. Fields Tuvalu/Funafuti ...... (Vacancy) Mauritania/Nouakchott ...... Dorothy M. Sampas Uganda/Kampala ...... E. Michael Southwick Mauritius/Port Louis ...... Leslie M. Alexander Ukraine/Kiev ...... William G. Miller Mexico/Mexico City ...... James R. Jones United Arab Emirates/Abu Dhabi William A. Rugh Micronesia/Kolonia ...... March Fong Eu United Kingdom of Great Britain William J. Crowe, Jr. Moldova/Chisinau ...... Mary C. Pendleton and Northern Ireland/London. Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/ ...... Donald C. Johnson Uruguay, Oriental Republic of/ Thomas J. Dodd Morocco/Rabat ...... Marc C. Ginsberg Montevideo. Mozambique/Maputo ...... Dennis C. Jett Uzbekistan/Tashkent ...... Henry L. Clarke Namibia/Windhoek ...... Marshall F. McCallie Vanuatu ...... Richard W. Teare Nauru/Yaren (N) ...... (Vacancy) Nepal/Kathmandu ...... Sandra L. Vogelgesang Venezuela/Caracas ...... Jeffrey Davidow Netherlands/The Hague ...... K. Terry Dornbush Western Samoa/Apia ...... Josiah H. Beeman New Zealand/Wellington ...... Josiah H. Beeman Yemen/Sanaa ...... David G. Newton Nicaragua/Managua ...... John F. Maisto Zambia/Lusaka ...... Roland K. Kuchel Niger/Niamey ...... John S. Davison Zimbabwe/Harare ...... Johnny Carson DEPARTMENT OF STATE 409

Sources of Information

Audiovisual Materials The Bureau of Regulations permit their use for Consular Affairs has a 12-minute incidental personal travel related to an videotape on the safety of international official assignment if the host travel. ‘‘Traveling Abroad More Safely’’ government does not object. However, if provides general practical advice to U.S. employees or their dependents prefer to citizen travelers on avoiding the hazards travel on a regular tourist passport in of foreign travel. It includes steps to take connection with official travel, they may prior to departure, ways to protect apply by paying the regular passport fees against theft and legal problems, and and claiming reimbursement on their ways U.S. embassies and consulates can travel voucher. assist U.S. citizens who encounter Inquiries on these matters should be difficulty abroad. The tape is available directed to Passport Services, Diplomatic for $9 in VHS and Beta and $12.50 in and Congressional Travel Branch. Phone, 3/4-inch format, plus a $3 mailing and 202–326–6234. handling fee from Video Transfer, Inc., Employment Inquiries about 5710 Arundel Avenue, Rockville, MD employment in the Foreign Service 20552. Phone, 301–881–0270. should be directed to: PER/REE/REC, Contracts General inquiries may be P.O. Box 9317, Arlington, VA 22210. directed to the Office of Acquisitions (A/ Phone, 703–875–7490. Inquiries about OPR/ACQ), Department of State, civil service positions in the Department Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 703– of State should be directed to: PER/CSP/ 875–6000. POD, P.O. Box 18657, Washington, DC Diplomatic and Official Passports 20036–8657. The Department’s Civil Department employees may use Service Employment Information Office diplomatic and official passports only as is located inside the D Street north lobby long as they are retained in the position entrance of the Department of State or status for which originally issued. building, Washington, DC. The Civil Section 51.4 of title 22 of the Code of Service Personnel Office provides a 24- Federal Regulations states that such hour job information line. Phone, 202– passports must be returned upon 647–7284. termination of the bearer’s diplomatic or Freedom of Information Act and Privacy official status. Act Requests Requests from the public In accordance with the Department’s for Department of State records should Foreign Affairs Manual (3 FAM 784), it is be addressed to the Director, Office of the responsibility of administrative Freedom of Information Privacy and officers to ensure that Form DS–8A Classification Review, Department of includes a record of the disposition of State, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, passports issued to separating or retiring DC 20520–1512. Phone, 202–647– employees and their dependents. This 8484. Individuals are requested to includes all diplomatic and official indicate on the outside of the envelope passports, as well as any tourist passports the statute under which they are for which the employee has been requesting access: FOIA REQUEST or reimbursed by the Department. Because of the possibility of misuse of PRIVACY REQUEST. these documents, it is important that all Any identifiable Department of State offices establish and maintain effective document can be requested under the control over passport use. These Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. passports are normally destroyed by 552). Requesters should provide as much passport services; however, they may be identifying information as possible about cancelled and returned as mementos if the document to assist the Department in requested. locating it. Include subject matter, Diplomatic passports may not be used timeframe, originator of the information, by employees for strictly personal travel. or any other helpful data. 410 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Only persons who are U.S. citizens or Missing Persons, Emergencies, Deaths of aliens who are lawfully admitted to the Americans Abroad For information United States for permanent residence concerning missing persons, can request information under the emergencies, travel advisories, and Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). Under this arrests or deaths of Americans abroad, act, individuals may request access to contact the Citizens Emergency Center, records that are maintained under the Department of State. Phone, 202–647– individual’s name or some other 5225. Correspondence should be personally identifiable symbol. directed to: Overseas Citizens Services, Descriptions of record systems from Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department which documents can be retrieved by of State, Washington, DC 20520. the individual’s name are published in the Federal Register, copies of which are Inquiries regarding citizenship, available from the Director, Office of international parental child abduction, Freedom of Information, Privacy and judicial assistance, overseas voting, and Classification Review. To expedite adoption of foreign children by private processing of requests, individuals U.S. citizens should be directed to: should specify the system of records they Citizens Consular Service, Bureau of wish to have searched and should Consular Affairs, Room 4817, provide the following identifying Department of State, Washington, DC information: full name; aliases (if any); 20520. Phone, 202–647–3666. date and place of birth; and circumstances, including approximate Passports For information concerning time period, which would have led to the issuance of U.S. passports, contact the creation of the record. Passport Services, Bureau of Consular A public reading room, where Affairs, 1111 19th Street NW., unclassified and declassified documents Washington, DC 20522–1705 (phone, may be inspected, is located in the 202–647–0518), or any of the field Department of State, 2201 C Street NW., offices. Additional information Washington, DC. Phone, 202–647–8484. concerning passport applications is Directions to the reading room may be available for sale by the Superintendent obtained from receptionists at public of Documents, Government Printing entrances to the Department. Office, Washington, DC 20402. Field OfficesÐPassport Office

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Boston, MA ...... Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Bldg., 02222 ...... 617±565±6998 Chicago, IL ...... Federal Bldg., 60604 ...... 312±353±7155 Honolulu, HI ...... Federal Bldg., 96850 ...... 808±541±1919 Houston, TX ...... 1919 Smith St., 77002 ...... 713±653±3153 Los Angeles, CA ...... 11000 Wilshire Blvd., 90024±3615 ...... 310±575±7070 Miami, FL ...... Federal Office Bldg., 33130 ...... 305±536±4681 New Orleans, LA ...... 701 Loyola Ave., 70113 ...... 504±589±6728 New York, NY ...... Rockefeller Ctr., 10111±0031 ...... 212±399±5290 Philadelphia, PA ...... Federal Bldg., 19106 ...... 215±597±7480 San Francisco, CA ...... 525 Market St., 94105±2773 ...... 415±744±4010 Seattle, WA ...... Federal Bldg., 98174 ...... 206±220±7777 Stamford, CT ...... 1 Landmark Sq., 06901 ...... 203±325±4401 Washington, DC ...... 1425 K St. NW., 20522±1705 ...... 202±647±0518

Publications The Department’s Bureau Dispatch and Background Notes. of Public Affairs produces a variety of The series Foreign Relations of the publications on the Department and United States, published since 1861 in foreign policy, including two official over 300 volumes, constitutes the official documentary series, Foreign Relations of documentary record of U.S. foreign the United States and American Foreign policy. It is the most extensive and most Policy: Current Documents, and two near-current publication of diplomatic publications on U.S. foreign policy, DEPARTMENT OF STATE 411 papers in the world. The Office of the NW., Washington, DC, for the specific Historian will soon complete the 75 location. Phone, 202–647–8484. print volumes and microfiche Telephone Directory The Department’s supplements documenting the foreign telephone directory is available for sale policy of the Eisenhower administration by the Superintendent of Documents, (1953–1960). Publication of 32 print Government Printing Office, volumes and supplements on the foreign Washington, DC 20402. policy of the Kennedy administration Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad The (1961–1963) will be completed by 1996. following pamphlets from the Bureau of The American Foreign Policy annual Consular Affairs are for sale for $1 by volumes contain current official public the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. expressions of policy that best convey Government Printing Office, the objectives of U.S. foreign policy. The Washington, DC 20402: series includes texts of major official Travel Tips for Older Americans messages, addresses, statements, reports, contains basic information on passports, and communications by the White currency, health, aid for serious House, Department of State, and other problems, and other useful travel tips for Federal agencies involved in the foreign senior citizens. affairs process. Microfiche supplements, Your Trip Abroad contains basic which include additional public information on passports, vaccinations, documents, accompany the 1981 and unusual travel requirements, dual subsequent annual volumes. nationality, drugs, modes of travel, The Department’s weekly magazine, customs, legal requirements, and many Dispatch, offers a diverse compilation of other topics for the American tourist, speeches, congressional testimony, business representative, or student policy statements, fact sheets, and other traveling overseas. foreign policy information. A Safe Trip Abroad contains helpful Background Notes provide brief, precautions to minimize one’s chances factual summaries concerning the of becoming a victim of terrorism and people, history, government, economy, also provides other safety tips. and foreign relations of about 180 Tips for Americans Residing Abroad countries (excluding the United States) contains advice for more than 2 million and of selected international Americans living in foreign countries. organizations. A free index is available. Travel Warning on Drugs Abroad Dispatches, Background Notes, and contains important facts on the potential other materials—including reports to dangers of being arrested for illegal Congress—are carried over the drugs abroad and the type of assistance Government Printing Office’s (GPO) that U.S. consular officers can and Federal Bulletin Board Service. This cannot provide. This booklet is free from information can also be accessed the Department of State, Consular through the Department of Commerce’s Affairs/Public Affairs Staff, Room 5807, National Technical Information Service’s Washington, DC 20520. FedWorld network, as well as through The Bureau of Consular Affairs also other data base services. A GPO deposit publishes a series of brochures on travel account may be opened by calling 202– to specific areas of the world. 512–0822. Depending on the region, the brochures For information on these and other cover topics such as currency and Department publications, write to Public customs regulations, entry requirements, Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, dual nationality, and restrictions on the Department of State, Room 5831, use of photography. Copies are available Washington, DC 20520. Phone, 202– from the Government Printing Office for 647–6575. $1. Currently available are: Tips for Reading Room To review declassified Travelers to the Caribbean; Tips for Department documents, contact the Travelers to Eastern Europe; Tips for receptionists at the public entrance to Travelers to Mexico; Tips for Travelers to the Department of State, 2201 C Street the Middle East and North Africa; Tips 412 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL for Travelers to the People’s Republic of foreign countries. Order for 50 cents China; Tips for Travelers to South Asia; from the Consumer Information Center, Tips for Travelers to the USSR; Tips for Pueblo, CO 81009. Travelers to Central and South America, Visas To obtain information on visas and Tips for Travelers to Sub-Saharan for foreigners wishing to enter the United Africa. States, call 202–663–1225. Foreign Entry Requirements contains visa and other entry requirements of

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