3/06/12
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2012/03/185249.htm
SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
9:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu, at Blair House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY THE ISRAELI EMBASSY)
12:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Secretary Panetta and National Security Advisor Donilon, at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
3:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with former South African President F. W. De Klerk, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
11:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Senator Dick Lugar, at the Hart Senate Building.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Morris Rosenberg, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:15 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides speaks with Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary Raul Perea-Henze.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with CEO of Delta Richard Anderson and Roy Bostock, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with the Budget Team, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJ SHAH
9:00 a.m. Administrator Shah appears before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
2:00 p.m. Administrator Shah appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY SENATE)
US FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman is on foreign travel in Nigeria, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Kenya to meet with senior government officials.
US FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
Under Secretary Hormats is in New York City through March 7 to deliver remarks at the Asia Society Conference.
US FOR CIVILIAN SECURITY, DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS MARIA OTERO
1:30 p.m. Under Secretary Otero meets with Johanna Mendelson of the UN Foundation and Mike Miklavcic of the Center for Stability Operations, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING US FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS KATHLEEN STEPHENS
1:00 p.m. Acting Under Secretary Stephens delivers the keynote address at the 50th Annual U.S. Senate Youth Program Luncheon, at the Department of State. Acting Assistant Secretary Hammer co-hosts the event.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
COUNSELOR AND CHIEF OF STAFF CHERYL MILLS
10:00 a.m. Counselor Mills meets with Brazilian General Undersecretary for South, Central America and the Caribbean Antonio Simoes, at the Department of State.
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
3:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts “Taste of the United Kingdom,” a Diplomatic Partnerships Division Cultural Exchange Program, at the British Ambassador’s residence. She is joined by the British Ambassador, Sir Peter Westmacott and Lady Westmacott, as well as local British children and students from Stoddert Elementary School, a DC public school.
AS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Swiss Ambassador to the United States Manuel Sager, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AS FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
2:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer hosts Koen Davidse, Director for the United Nations and International Financial Institutions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AS FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS JOHNNIE CARSON
3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Carson joins Secretary Clinton’s meeting with former South African President De Klerk, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AS FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
Assistant Secretary Fernandez is on foreign travel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to meet with government officials and private sector representatives.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ACTING AS FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
12:00 p.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Hammer co-hosts the U.S. Senate Youth Program Luncheon for high school students from around the country, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING AS FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
Acting Assistant Secretary Jacobson accompanies Vice President Biden on foreign travel to Mexico and Honduras.
COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS DAWN MCCALL
Coordinator McCall is on foreign travel in Brussels, Belgium.
AS FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Posner meets with Secretary-General of the Council of Moroccan Jews Serge Berdugo, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING AS FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION DAVID ROBINSON
Acting Assistant Secretary Robinson is on foreign travel in Georgia and Turkey through March 9.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM DANIEL BENJAMIN
11:30 a.m. Ambassador Benjamin meets with Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Jeremy Issacharoff, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Ambassador Benjamin attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LUIS CDEBACA
8:00 p.m. LOCAL Ambassador CdeBaca delivers remarks on the state of the fight against modern slavery, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
5:30 p.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the 19th Annual Conference on Infectious Diseases and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, WA.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
1:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer meets with a delegation of Brazilian female business leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer meets with Charlotte Oades, director of the Coca Cola Company’s “5x20” initiative to create five million new women entrepreneurs by 2020, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:30 p.m. Ambassador Verveer delivers remarks at the dinner in honor of the 2012 International Women of Courage, sponsored by the American Women for International Understanding, at the National Press Club.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SR FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
Special Representative Lewis is on foreign travel in Geneva, Switzerland.
Special Representative Lewis attends the R-20 – Canton of Geneva Reception, at the Geneva City Hall, in Geneva, Switzerland.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SR TO MUSLIM COMMUNITIES FARAH PANDITH & SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM HANNAH ROSENTHAL
Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal are on foreign travel in Greece through March 7 to hold meetings with the Hellenic Olympic Committee to discuss their involvement in 2012 Hours Against Hate. They then travel to Albania through March 9 to encourage the government and civil society to adopt 2012 Hours Against Hate.
DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING JAKE SULLIVAN
11:30 a.m. Director Sullivan meets with U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE
THERE WILL NOT BE A DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2012/03/185335.htm
SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
9:30 a.m. Secretary Clinton meets with the Senior Management Team, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Secretary Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, at the Department of State.
(JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING BILATERAL AT 11:05 A.M.)
3:50 p.m. Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the event, “The Week that Changed the World: President Nixon’s Historic Trip to China and the Future of U.S.-China Relations,” co-hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Richard Nixon Foundation, at USIP.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
5:05 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
9:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
11:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
2:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Members of the U.S.-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Chilean Defense Minister Andres Allamand, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:05 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
8:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a video conference with Embassy Baghdad.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:45 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Mark Abramson of Leadership, Inc., at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with U.S. members of the U.S.-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Deputy Director of Foreign Assistance Rob Goldberg, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides speaks with Treasury Under Secretary Lael Brainard.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJ SHAH
1:00 p.m. Administrator Shah delivers a two-year policy speech on “Transforming Foreign Aid,” at the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York City.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
4:15 p.m. Administrator Shah attends a Child Survival Stakeholders Meeting, in New York City.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
US FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman is on foreign travel in Nigeria, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Kenya through March 11 to meet with senior government officials.
US FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Andrew Spindler of Financial Service Volunteer Corps, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Philip Blumberg of Blumberg Capital Partners of Miami, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats participates in an event, “The Week that Changed the World: President Nixon’s Historic Trip to China and the Future of U.S.-China Relations,” co-hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Richard Nixon Foundation, at USIP. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats participates in a roundtable discussion with Washington Yale CEO Caucus, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
US FOR CIVILIAN SECURITY, DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS MARIA OTERO
8:45 a.m. Under Secretary Otero hosts the global issues principals meeting, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Otero delivers remarks at a U.S. Water Partnership event, at the World Resources Institute, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Maria Otero meets with USAID Deputy Administrator Steinberg, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Maria Otero meets with Bolivian Foreign Minister Choquehuanca, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING US FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS KATHLEEN STEPHENS
9:00 a.m. Acting Under Secretary Stephens attends an event, “The Week that Changed the World: President Nixon’s Historic Trip to China and the Future of U.S.-China Relations,” co-hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Richard Nixon Foundation, at USIP.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
1:30 p.m. Acting Under Secretary Stephens attends an event in honor of Voice of America’s 70 Years of International Broadcasting, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake attends an Interagency Policy Committee meeting, at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
AS FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS WILLIAM BROWNFIELD
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brownfield meets with Representative Henry Cuellar, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brownfield attends the Laredo Day Reception, in Washington, DC.
(media determined by host)
AS FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS JOHNNIE CARSON
1:30 p.m. Ambassador Carson meets Portuguese Ambassador to the United States Nuno Brito, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Ambassador Carson meets with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, at Blair House
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AS FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
8:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez holds an event for Economic Leadership Day, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez hosts a conference call on business opportunities in Libya’s healthcare sector.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS DAWN MCCALL
Coordinator McCall is on foreign travel in Brussels, Belgium.
AS FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
9:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Posner meets with Russian democracy activist and Director of Vision of Tomorrow Fund Oleg Kozlovsky, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Posner meets with Commissioner of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Sima Samar, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING AS FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION DAVID ROBINSON
Acting Assistant Secretary Robinson is on foreign travel in Georgia and Turkey through March 9.
AS FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO
3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Shapiro joins Deputy Secretary Burns for a meeting with Chilean Minister of Defense Andrés Allamand Zavala, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM DANIEL BENJAMIN
10:30 a.m. Ambassador Benjamin attends the Twelfth Regular Session of the Organization of American States Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (OAS/CICTE), in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Rapp testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade at a hearing on, “The State Department’s Rewards Programs: Performance and Potential,” on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
9:15 a.m. Ambassador Verveer briefs the press about the International Women of Courage event, hosted by Secretary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama on March 8.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer delivers remarks to participants in the Coca Cola Company Women’s Leadership Program, in Washington DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:15 p.m. Ambassador Verveer and the 2012 International Women of Courage Award recipients meet with members of Congress, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
3:45 p.m. Ambassador Verveer meets with a high-level delegation of European female business leaders participating in an International Visitors Program focused on, “Women’s Leadership, Advancing Humanity,” at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer delivers remarks at a seminar, “Empowering Women: The Way Ahead,” hosted by Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman, at the Embassy of Pakistan, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SR FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
Special Representative Lewis is on foreign travel in Geneva, Switzerland.
9:00 a.m. Special Representative Lewis participates in a panel discussion at the R20 Conference, in Geneva, Switzerland.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SR TO MUSLIM COMMUNITIES FARAH PANDITH & SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM HANNAH ROSENTHAL
Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal are on foreign travel in Greece through March 7 to hold meetings with the Hellenic Olympic Committee to discuss their involvement in 2012 Hours Against Hate. They then travel to Albania through March 9 to encourage the government and civil society to adopt 2012 Hours Against Hate.
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal meet with Greek Secretary General for Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs Georgios Kalantzis, in Athens, Greece.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
10:30 a.m. LOCAL Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal meet with Greek Secretary General Yannis-Alexis Zepos at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Athens, Greece.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
11:45 a.m. LOCAL Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal meet with Greek Secretary General for Transparency and Human Rights Yiannis Ioannidis, in Athens, Greece.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
5:00 p.m. LOCAL Special Representative Pandith and Special Envoy Rosenthal meet with members of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, in Athens, Greece.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE
12:45 p.m. Daily Press Briefing with Spokesperson Victoria Nuland
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