| | 2005 Foreign Press Center Briefings
December
--12/19/05 U.S. and UN Food Relief to Southern Africa; Michael Hess, U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/05 Iraq: Upcoming Elections for the Iraqi Council of Representatives; Ambassador James Jeffrey, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/05 Progress Toward Completion of the Doha Round; Recent G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in London; U.S. Efforts to Help Iraqis Overhaul Their Economy and Rebuild Their Infrastructure; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--12/05/05 Africa Update: Democracy and Human Rights; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
November
--11/21/05 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; J. Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesperson, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/17/05 Progress Report on Anti-Drug Efforts in Colombia ; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/10/05 The President's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/05 Advancing Human Rights: U.S. Human Rights Country Resolutions and Replacing the UN Commission on Human Rights; Dr. Mark Lagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/05 Preview of the Forum for the Future, November 11-12, 2005, Manama, Bahrain; Liz Cheney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for BMENA ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/02/05 Between Two Worlds: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam; Zainab Salbi, President and CEO, Women for Women International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/01/05 Natural Disasters: U.S. Assistance to Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Cuba; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
October
--10/28/05 The Challenges Facing Universities and Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization; Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University; Foreign Press Center Roundtable for Japanese Journalists; Washington, DC
--10/21/05 Recent Developments in the Middle East; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/05 Update on Afghanistan; Ambassador Ronald Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/18/05 Iraq: Post Referendum Update; Ambassador James Jeffrey , Sr. Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/14/05 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Defense Department Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/13/05 60th Anniversary of World Food Day; Michael Hage, Regional Information Officer for North America, Food and Agriculture Organization, UN; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/13/05 Upcoming Trip to Asia; John A. Thain, CEO, New York Stock Exchange; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/06/05 Governing the Internet; Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Media Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/04/05 The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
September
--09/27/05 UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention: The U.S. View; Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/23/05 Finalization of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Threshold Country Program with Malawi; Goodall Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Republic of Malawi; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--09/19/05 The United States and Europe: Addressing Global Challenges Together; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/16/05 Advancing Freedom, Peace and Prosperity in Africa; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtabel Discussion; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/15/05 Avian and Pandemic Influenza; Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/15/05 Ongoing Diplomatic Activities at the United Nations and Other Current U.S. Foreign Policy Issues; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Foreign Press Center; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/15/05 The President's 2006 Narcotics Certifications; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/12/05 U.S. Priorities for the UN High Level Event; Kristen Silverberg, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/08/05 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Oceans Ministerial Meeting - September 16-17, 2005; Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. (Ret.), Under Secretary of State of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/01/05 U.S. Supreme Court: The Highest Court of the Land - Backgrounder Prior to Confirmation Hearing of John G. Roberts; Melvin I. Urofsky, Professor of Public Policy and Law, Virginia Commonwealth University; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
August
--08/31/05 Update on Military Commissions; Brigadier General Thomas L. Hemingway, Legal Adviser to the Appointing Authority, Office of Military Commissions, OGC, DOD; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/24/05 Gaza Disengagement Update; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/11/05 Update on Guantanamo Bay Detainees; Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-at-Large, Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Los Angeles, California -- No Transcript Available
--08/10/05 The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/10/05 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
July
--07/28/05 Update on How the World Views America; Keith Reinhard, President, BDA (Business for Diplomatic Action); Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--07/21/05 U.S. Detention Policies and Procedures; Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, U.S. Department State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--07/14/05 Update from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--07/13/05 New Millennium Challenge Compact with Cape Verde; Josi Maria Neves, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--07/13/05 The U.S. and the Future of Iraq; Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
June
--06/24/05 Protecting Global Aviation: Keeping Nicaraguan man-Portable Air Defense Systems Out of the Hands of Terrorists; Rose Likins, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/21/05 The Gullah/Geechee Nation: An Overview on the Preservation of the Culture and Identity; Marquettqa L. Goodwine/Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- No Transcript Available
--06/17/05 International Conference on Iraq, June 21-22, 2005, Brussels, Belgium; Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Senior Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/16/05 World Refugee Day 2005 - the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, U.S. Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/15/05 New Passport Requirements for Visa Waiver Program Countries; Elaine Dezenski, Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/13/05 Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact with Honduras; Ricardo Maduro Joest, President of the Republic of Honduras; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/07/05 Figuring Out Blogs: the Best Blogs For and By Journalists and How You Can Join the Blogging Revolution as a Reader and/or Creator of Blogs; Sreenath Sreenivasan, New Media Journalism Professor, Columbia University; Foreign Press Center Workshop; Washington, DC -- No Transcript Available
--06/03/05 AGOA: Empowering Civil Society Orgnaizations to Build Economic Prosperity: The 2005 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Dakar, Senal, July 18-20, 2005; Constance Berry Newman, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/03/05 Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, DC, July 1-5; Senior Assembly Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
May
--05/24/05 WCO Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade; Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- No Transcript Available
--05/20/05 Millennium Challenge Corporation's Decision on the Honduras Compact; Paul Applegarth, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/17/05 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Education Ministerial Meeting in Amman, Jordan, May 22-23, 2005; D.J. Nordquist, Acting Director, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Education; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/17/05 Conference Board Study of Global Productivity; Robert McGuckin, Director of Economic Research, The Conference Board; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--05/13/05 The New Pope and the American People; Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewell Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy, AEI; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/12/05 DHS Announces Machine-Readable Passport Requirement Deadline for Visa Waiver Program Travel; Elaine Dezenski, Acting Assistant Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Policy, DHS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/06/05 Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) Two Years Later; Catherine Novelli, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
April
--04/21/05 Corporate Boardrooms: The New Political Battleground; Bill McIntyre, Vice President for Public Affairs, Grassroots Enterprise; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/19/05 The Signing of the First Millennium Challenge Compact; Paul Applegarth, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/08/05 U.S. Participation in the Sudan Donors' Conference, Oslo, Norway, April 11-12, 2005; Two Senior Government Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/07/05 European Crisis Areas; Nicholas Whyte, European Program Director for the Crisis Group; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--04/06/05 Accuracy in the Media: Misinformation, Mistakes, and Misleading in American and Other Media; Todd Leventhal, Chief of the Counter-Information Team, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/05/05 Editorial Writing in U.S. Newspapers; Lynnell Burkett, Editorial Writer, San Antonio Express-News; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/05/05 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative; Frank Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/01/05 Tsunami Aftermath: U.S. NGOs' Role in Rebuilding; James Bishop , Acting CEO and Director of Humanitarian Practice and Policy, Interaction ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
March
--03/28/05 Release of the State Department's Report "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-2005"; Michael Kozak, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/23/05 Figuring Out Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging; Sree Sreenivasan, Journalism Professor, Columbia University; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--03/22/05 Developments in West Africa; Mike McGovern, West Africa Project Director, Crisis Group; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--03/22/05 Trilateral Meeting - U.S.-Canada-Mexico on March 23, 2005; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05 Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05 Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time; Sree Sreenivasan, Journalism Professor, Columbia University; Foreign Press Center Workshop; Washington, DC
--03/10/05 U.S. Perspectives on European Drug Policy and "Harm Reduction"; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, The White House; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/09/05 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/05 Founding Mothers -- Next Steps in Post-Election Afghanistan and Iraq ; Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobrianski; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/05 New York City's Candidacy for the 2012 Olympics; Dan Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor, New York City; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--03/04/05 2004 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; Robert B. Charles, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/02/05 Corporate Social Responsibility: The Key to Global Business Success; Dr. Angel Cabrera, President, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
February
--02/28/05 State Department's 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices ; Gretchen Birkle, Senior Coordinator, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC
--02/25/05 Presidents Bush and Clinton's Tsunami Region Visit, February 19-21; Ambassador Douglas A. Hartwick, Senior Coordinator of the State Department's Tsunami Reconstruction; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/16/05 Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time; Sree Sreenivassan, Journalism Professor, Columbia University; Foreign Press Center Workshop; New York, New York
--02/09/05 Counterterrorism Efforts in the Organization of American States; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/05 Iraq Election Update; Dr. Farid Ayar, Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/04/05 The Global Earth Observation System Ministerial ; Brigadier General Jack J. Kelly, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/03/05 President George W. Bush's State of the Union Message ; Dan Bartlett, Counselor to the President ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
January
--01/28/05 Elections in Iraq ; U.S. Department of State Official ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/21/05 Elections in Iraq; U.S. Department of State Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/13/05 Presidential Inaugurations Past and Present: A Look at the History Behind the Pomp and Circumstance ; Donald R. Kennon, Chief Historian, United States Capitol Historical Society; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--01/12/05 A Step Toward Peace: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Accord; Charles R. Snyder, Senior Representative on Sudan ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/06/05 The International Student Visa Process in the Post-9/11 World; Patricia Harrison , Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05 Promoting Free and Fair Elections in Iraq: NGOs and Building the Political Process ; Judy Van Rest, Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05 Update: U.S. Government Relief Efforts in Asia; William Garvelink, Senior Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
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