Tuesday, March 1, 2011

1 Mar, 2011, Tues, SoS Clinton and Staff Schedule

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2011/03/157470.htm

SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
10:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton appears before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOUSE)

5:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)

DEPUTY SECRETARY JAMES STEINBERG
2:15 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg meets with Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari, the Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

3:45 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg meets with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

DEPUTY SECRETARY THOMAS NIDES
12:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Millennium Challenge Cooperation CEO Daniel Yohannes, in Washington DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

2:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with senior Consular Affairs staff, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

5:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with the senior budget team, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJIV SHAH
9:00 a.m. Administrator Shah gives remarks at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

US FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WILLIAM BURNS
4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Burns meets Ambassador William Miller, Senior Adviser to a Search for Common Ground, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

6:30 p.m. Under Secretary Burns attends the opening performance of “maximum: INDIA,” at the Kennedy Center.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

US FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS ROBERT HORMATS
8:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

Under Secretary Hormats departs for foreign travel to Paris, France through March 4.

US FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS JUDITH MCHALE
4:15 p.m. Under Secretary McHale meets with Senator Barbara Mikulski, at the Hart Senate Office Building.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

6:30 p.m. Under Secretary McHale attends the opening performance of “maximum: INDIA,” at the Kennedy Center.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

US FOR DEMOCRACY AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS MARIA OTERO
Under Secretary Otero travels to Nigeria through March 3. She meets with senior government officials, electoral observation organization representatives, and civil society groups to discuss efforts to create an environment for free, fair and transparent general elections in April.

US FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS ELLEN TAUSCHER12:00 p.m. Under Secretary Tauscher meets with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, at the Ambassador’s Residence.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

12:30 p.m. Under Secretary Tauscher meets with German Ambassador Peter Gottwald, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

1:15 p.m. Under Secretary Tauscher meets with Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman, at the Department of Energy.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)


COUNSELOR AND CHIEF OF STAFF CHERYL MILLS

Counselor Mills is on foreign travel in Haiti where she meets with Special Representative to the UN Secretary General Edmund Mulet and other foreign officials and attends a meeting of the Haitian Interim Recovery Commission.


ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER

Assistant Secretary Brimmer travels to Tel Aviv, Israel and engages in consultations with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS KURT CAMPBELL

10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Campbell and Special Representative for North Korean Policy Stephen Bosworth appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss North Korea, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY SENATE)

AS FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS JOHNNIE CARSON
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson meets with Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari, the Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur, in Washington DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AS FOR NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRS JEFFREY FELTMAN
Assistant Secretary Feltman travels to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates through March 2.

AS FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers opening remarks on the financial aspects of Somali piracy at a Department of State meeting of international partners.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez leads the Central America Renewable Energy Forum (CAREF), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)

5:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Jaffar Hassan, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AS for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip GordonAssistant Secretary Gordon travels to Bulgaria, Greece, and Slovakia through March 4.

On March 1, Assistant Secretary Gordon is in Sofia, Bulgaria to meet with senior Bulgarian government officials.

On March 2, Assistant Secretary Gordon will be in Athens, Greece to meet with senior Greek government officials and political leaders. On March 3, Assistant Secretary Gordon will conclude his trip in Bratislava, Slovakia. He will deliver a keynote address on the U.S.-Central European relationship at the annual Slovak government-hosted GLOBSEC security conference. Assistant Secretary Gordon will also hold bilateral discussions with senior Slovak government officials and key officials from other states in the region.

AS for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Rose Gottemoeller11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller meets with German Ambassador Peter Gottwald, Commissioner of the Federal Government for Arms Control and Disarmament, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller attends a ceremony in honor of the New START Treaty hosted by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

6:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller speaks to students at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

AS for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Amman, Jordan through March 3 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives to discuss the importance of democratic reform, civil society, women’s rights, role of independent media, the protection of ethnic and religious minorities, and labor rights.

AS FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION ERIC SCHWARTZ
Assistant Secretary Schwartz travels to Colombia and Ecuador through March 4. Click here for more information.

AS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends the opening performance of “maximum: INDIA,” at the Kennedy Center.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AS FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ARTURO VALENZUELA
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Valenzuela delivers opening remarks at the U.S.-Central America Renewable Energy Forum (CAREF), at the Department of State.
(PRESS DETERMINED BY HOST)

2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Valenzuela meets with Christian Leffler, European External Action Service Managing Director for the Americas, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Valenzuela meets with Geronimo Gutierrez, Managing Director of the North American Development Bank, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE DANIEL BENJAMIN
Ambassador Benjamin travels to Turkey to chair the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Strategic Initiative in Istanbul.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
8:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby participates in the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), in Boston, Massachusetts.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
For more information, click here.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
11:00 a.m. Ambassador Verveer meets with Hasan Bano Ghazanfar Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs and her delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

3:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer participates in a symposium on U.S. First Ladies at American University’s Katsen Art Center.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO MUSLIM COMMUNITIES FARAH PANDITH
Special Representative Pandith is on foreign travel in Berlin for meetings with the German Marshall Fund, government officials, youth, members of civil society and the media.

PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE
NO DAILY PRESS BRIEFING TODAY.

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