-- South and Central Asia

--11/25/08  Afghanistan National Security Forces Update; Major General Robert Cone, Commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A); Foreign Press Center Briefing via Digital Videoconference (DVC); Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Audio
--10/27/08  Progress in Afghanistan: U.S. Releases New Poppy Cultivation Data; John Walters, Director, White House Office of Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- View Video
--10/17/08  The Future of U.S. - India Relations; Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing with Indian Media; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/22/08  Afghanistan National Security Forces Update; Major General Robert Cone, Commander, Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A); Foreign Press Center DVC Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Listen to Audio
--05/21/08  NATO-ISAF Operations in Afghanistan; General Dan K. McNielll, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF); Foreign Press Center Videoconference Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/23/08  The Year Ahead in South and Central Asia; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/28/08  Toy Donation to Pakistani Children in Karachi and Lahore; Ann E. W. Stone, President, The Stone Group; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/27/07  NATO Issues and How It Relates to Afghanistan; Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, NATO Deputy Chairman; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/27/07  Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/25/07  A Comprehensive Approach to Counternarcotics in Afghanistan; John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC  -- Official Transcript
--03/22/07  South and Central Asia Regional Update; Senior State Department Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/24/06  Update on NATO Operations in Afghanistan; General Jones, US EUCOM and NATO SACEUR; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/31/06  Progress in Efforts to Control Afghan Poppy Cultivation; Tom Schweich, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/17/06  South and Central Asia Update; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/06  Upcoming Asian Development Bank Meetings and India Visit; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/10/06  Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan: Recent Progress and European Support for Institutional Stability; John Walters, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC --  Official Transcript
--03/22/06  U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement ; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/21/06  The Long Global War Against Violent Extremism, Current Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and NATO Issues; Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt, Deputy Director, Plans and Strategy, (J5), U.S. Central Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/06  Current Allied Command Operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; General James Jones, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and US European Command (EUCOM) Commander; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/06  Scene Setter for The London Conference on Afghanistan - January 31-February 1, 2006; Ambassador Ronald Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; 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
--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
--03/08/05  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
--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
--01/03/05  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
--10/15/04  The First Democratic Elections in Afghanistan: A Report by the Bipartisan Observer Team; Bernard Aronson, Board of Directors, National Democratic Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/07/04  Afghanistan Presidential Election 2004; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/26/04  Scene Setter on the International Conference on Afghanistan, March 31-April 1 in April; Ambassador William Taylor, Coordinator for Afghanistan, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/17/03  Rebuilding Afghanistan; James Kunder, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and Near East; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/19/03  Progress and Prospects in Afghanistan; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/03  Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/09/03  Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East Peace Process; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03  Recently Completed Visits to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and Expansion of Human and Civil Rights and Supporting Democracy in These Three Countries; Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/17/03  Roundtable on Afghan Women's Issues; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues in the Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/03  Second Afghan Donors' Conference; Ambassador Johnson, Coordinator for Afghan Reconstruction, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/12/03  Recent Media Tour to Afghanistan; Haider Karzai, Director, Los Angeles Foreign Press Center, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/15/03  Rebuilding Afghanistan: High-Level U.S. Government Officials and Private Sector Representatives' Trip to Kabul, Afghanistan ; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing.; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--12/09/02  The Current Situation of the Health Care Sector in Afghanistan; James Kunder, U.S. Agency for International Development Deputy Assistant Administrator ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/26/02  Donor Assistance to Afghanistan; William B. Taylor, U.S.Department of State Special Representative for Donor Assistance to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/15/02  Afghan Relief, Reconstruction and Refugee Repatriation; Arthur E. "Gene" Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript.
--10/18/02  Update on Caspian Basin Energy Policy; Ambassador Steven Mann, Senior Advisor Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/08/02  Operation Enduring Freedom: 1 Year Later; Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/23/02  The Work of the OSCE in Russia, Central Asia and the Balkans; Amb. Stephan Minikes, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/15/02  Successes in Central Asia, The Caucasus, and Southern Europe; William Taylor, Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/12/02  Scenesetter on the Visit of President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraft; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/31/02  The War on Terrorism from the Air Force Perspective: Operations Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Noble Eagle (Homeland Security); General John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--12/18/01  Demining in Afghanistan; Lincoln Bloomfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Miliary Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/19/01  Report on Recent Visit to Afghanistan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/08/01  Update: Humanitarian Assistance to the People of Afghanistan; Alan J. Kreczko, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/06/01  Human Rights and the Taliban; Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/02/01  Background Briefing on Taliban Denial and Deception Techniques; Senior Defense Department Official, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/26/01  U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to the People of Afghanistan: An Update from His Recent Trip to Pakistan; Bear McConnell, Director, Central Asia Task Force, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/11/01  Humanitarian Assistance to the Afghan People; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/21/01  Her Upcoming Trip to Ukraine and the Caucusus; Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/19/01  Scene-Setter for Trip to South Asia; Christina B. Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/06/01  Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan; Al Eastham, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/09/01  U.S. Relations with Russian and the NIS; Stephen R. Sestanovich, Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the NIS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)