| | 2003 Foreign Press Center Briefings
December
--12/22/03 The U.S.-VISIT Program ; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/18/03 "The Release of the 2003 Annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom"; John Hanford, Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of State; Washington, DC FPC Briefing on "The Release of the 2003 Annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom."
--12/17/03 Rebuilding Afghanistan; James Kunder, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and Near East; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/17/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/16/03 The Success of the UN World Summit on the Information Society and What it Bodes for the Future; Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/03 Special Summit of the Americas ; Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/10/03 Campaign Finance Reform; Jan W. Baran, Esq., Election Law and Campaign Finance Expert; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/09/03 Progress Against Trafficking in Persons; John Miller, Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Trafficking in Persons; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
November
--11/25/03 The Role of International Education in the Struggle Against Terrorism; Patricia Harrison, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/24/03 The District of Columbia Primary; Mark Plotkin, Political Commentator and Analyst for WTOP Radio; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Offiical Transcript
--11/20/03 U.S.-Taiwan-China Issues; Randy Schriver, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; 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
--11/19/03 The U.S. Commitment to Women in Iraq; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--11/18/03 International Education Week and the Department of Education's Role in Promoting an Exchange of Ideas Around the Globe; Rod Paige, Secretary of Education; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/14/03 The Primary and Caucus System in U.S. Elections; Curtis Gans, Director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/12/03 Overview of the 2004 Elections; Charles Cook, Editor and Publisher of the Cook Report and Political Analyst for the National Journal Group; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/10/03 Update on Asian-Pacific Issues; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Transcript from the Department of Defense Web Site
--11/07/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/05/03 New Economic Survey on U.S. Job Growth and Federal Policy; Rick L. Weddle, Chairman of the International Economic Development Council; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
October
--10/31/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Richard Boucher, Department of State Spokesman and Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/30/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/27/03 The Achievements of the Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid and Progress on Economic and Financial Reconstruction; Dr. John Taylor, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/24/03 Scenesetter for OAS Special Conference on Security, 27-28 October, 2003, Mexico City; Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/22/03 Preview of Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid, October 23-23, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/22/03 The Latest Research on Drug Abuse and Addiction; Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/21/03 Update on USAID Reconstruction Activities in Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/16/03 University of Rochester/Zogby International First Global Poll on Major Religions; John Zogby, President and CEO, Zogby International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/10/03 New U.S. Bioterrorism Regulations to Protect Food Supplies; L. Robert Lake, Director of Regulations and Policy, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/09/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; 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
--10/02/03 U.S. Foreign Policy after the UNGA; Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
September
--09/24/03 Iraqi Public Works Reconstruction; Mrs. Nasreen Mustafa Sadiq Barwari, Iraqi Minister of Public Works; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/24/03 U.S. Objectives at this Year's United Nations General Assembly; Dr. Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/17/03 Status of Rebuilding and Training the Iraqi Army; Walter B. Slocombe, Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Sector Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/10/03 New York City After September 11, 2001; Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/10/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; 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
--09/05/03 Preparations for an Iraq Donors Conference; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs ; Foreign Press Center; Washington D.C. -- Official Transcript
--09/04/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Sean McCormack, Spokesman, National Security Council; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/03/03 Future of the World Trade Center; Daniel Libeskind, Architect, Designer for the Development of the World Trade Center's Site Plan; Foreign Press Center; New York, New York --Official Transcript
August
--08/26/03 The State of American Aviation; Admiral James M. Loy, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--08/08/03 Inter-American Education Ministerial; Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/07/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/01/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
July
--07/30/03 New Visa Procedures ; Tony Edson, Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--07/29/03 Current Developments in Colombia in the Fight Against Drug Trafficking and Narcoterrorism; John Walters; 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
--07/24/03 U.S. Foreign Policy; Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/23/03 Coalition's Post-War Reconstruction and Stabilization Efforts; Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/18/03 The Use of Machine Readable Passports for the Visa Waiver Program; Lisa Piascik, Director of Office of Public and Diplomatic Liaison, Department 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
--07/02/03 President Bush's Trip to Africa; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Unofficial Transcript
June
--06/23/03 U.S-European Union Summit, Washington, June 25, 2003; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/17/03 Government 101 -- The U.S. System of Checks and Balances; James Thurber, Director for Congressional & Political Studies, American University; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/17/03 Preview of World Economic Forum Extraordinary Annual Meeting, Jordan, 21-23 June 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--06/17/03 The Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology, Sacramento, California, 23-25 June 2003; Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--06/13/03 U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Priorities in the Middle East and the Rest of the Globe; Richard Haass, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--06/12/03 Campaign 2004: How to Cover the Iowa Caucuses: January 19, 2004; Susan Ramsey and Representatives of the Greater Des Moines Partnership ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/12/03 Contextual Briefing on 2003 Trafficking in Persons Report; John Miller, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--06/11/03 Readout on OAS General Assembly (June 8-10) in Santiago, Chile; J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
May
--05/29/03 President Bush's HIV/AIDS Initiatives and the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (H.R. 1298); Dr. Joseph O'Neill, M.D., Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/28/03 Update on Iraq; Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/23/03 Understanding United Nations Resolution 1483; Dr. Kim R. Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/03 Reconsruction and Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Iraq; Wendy Chamberlin, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/19/03 United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (USVISIT); Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/14/03 Briefing by the National Security Advisor; Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/14/03 Discussion on the WTO Case on the EU Biotech Moratorium; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/12/03 Lifting UN Sanctions on Iraq: Helping the Iraqi People Build Their Future; Dr. Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/08/03 The Task Force For International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance And Awareness; Ambassador Randolph Bell, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/07/03 NATO's Expansion and Future ; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/01/03 U.S. Assistance to the Iraqi Economy; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
April
--04/30/03 Patterns of Global Terrorism; Ambassador J. Cofer Black, Coordinator, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/25/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/23/03 Global Positioning System (GPS); Ralph Braibanti, Director of the Department of State's Office of Advanced Technology; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/21/03 Humanitarian Aid for Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/15/03 Foreign Press Center Briefing by the Secretary of State; Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/15/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/11/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/10/03 Building a Coalition for Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction in Iraq; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/03/03 Coalition Targeting Procedures; Major General Stanley A. McChrystal, Vice Director for Operations, J-3, Joint Staff, Department of Defense ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/01/03 Release of the 2002 Human Rights Report; Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
March
--03/28/03 Eliminating the Threat to World Security Posed by the Iraqi Regime and Halting the Torture, Imprisonment and Execution of Innocents; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/26/03 Humanitarian and Reconstruction Aid to Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/19/03 Assisting Iraqis with Their Future: Planning for Democracy.; Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; 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.
--03/10/03 The Department of State's FY-2004 Budget Request. ; Christopher Burnham , Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/06/03 Human Rights and Women in Iraq: Voices of Iraqi Women.; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/03/03 2002 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; Paul Simons, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
February
--02/28/03 Humanitarian Relief Planning for Iraq; Richard Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/27/03 Second UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq; Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/26/03 Iraq's Voices of Freedom; James Larocca, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/21/03 State Department-hosted international conference, "Pathbreaking Strategies in the Global Fight Against Sex Trafficking," Washington, D.C., Feb. 23-26; John Miller, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/20/03 International Parental Child Abduction; Michelle Bernier-Toth, Director, Office of Childrens Issues, Overseas Citizen Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs and; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/13/03 The Recent Trip of Secretary Rumsfeld to Italy and Germany and International Support for the Global War on Terrorism; J.D. Crouch, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/07/03 Iraq Update and Other Nonproliferation Issues; John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonprolilferation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/06/03 President Bush's AIDS Initiative; Dr. Joseph O'Neill, Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/04/03 International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
January
--01/30/03 Department of Defense Media Support Plan; Bryan Whitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/29/03 Global Nonprolilferation Challenges; John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonprolilferation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/24/03 Corporate Accountability: The Conference Board's Commission on Public Trust ; John H. Biggs, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--01/24/03 White House Office of Global Communications; Tucker A. Eskew, Director, White House Office of Global Communications; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/23/03 White House Publication "What Does Disarmament Look Like? "; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/22/03 Defense Department Update for Foreign Media; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/21/03 White House Publication "Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003 "; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/17/03 National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NEERS) ; Kris Kobach, Counsel to the Attorney General, Department of Justice ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/16/03 Third Regular Session Of Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism, January 22-24, 2003, San Salvador, El Salvador; Amb. Roger Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative Before The Organization Of American States (OAS); 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.
--01/14/03 U.S. Customs Service Counterrorism Efforts at Home and Abroad ; Robert C. Bonner, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/10/03 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/07/03 2003 African Growth And Opportunity Act ( AGOA) Forum: Port Louis, Mauritius -- January 13-17, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary Of State For Economic, Business And Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
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