SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
9:45 a.m. Secretary Clinton delivers the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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10:35 a.m. Secretary Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd. Yassin, at the Department of State.
11:15 a.m. Secretary Clinton joins President Obama’s bilateral meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, at the White House.
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1:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Special Representatives for Afghanistan and Pakistan, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY JIM STEINBERG
9:45 a.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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12:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg attends a meeting at the White House.
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3:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
9:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, at the Department of State.
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9:45 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, at the Department of State.
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11:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides speaks with Under Secretary Tauscher.
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1:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Administrator Shah, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJ SHAH
1:30 p.m. Administrator Shah meets with Deputy Secretary Nides, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Administrator Shah attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS ROBERT HORMATS
9:45 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with representatives from the National Association of Manufacturers to discuss conflict mineral regulatory issues, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS JUDITH MCHALE
9:45 a.m. Under Secretary McHale attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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10:35 a.m. Under Secretary McHale joins Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd. Yassin, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Under Secretary McHale attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEMOCRACY AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS MARIA OTERO
10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Otero meets with the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stability, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Otero attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE9:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS KURT CAMPBELL9:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Campbell delivers introductory remarks at the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary Campbell joins Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd. Yassin, at the Department of State.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
8:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers remarks on the BRIDGE Initiative in Latin America at a roundtable meeting hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, at the Harold Pratt House in New York.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS PHIL GORDON
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Posner attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Shapiro attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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PM Assistant Secretary Shapiro departs for foreign travel to Djibouti, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK9:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ARTURO VALENZUELA
Assistant Secretary Valenzuela is on foreign travel to Argentina and Chile through January 15.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
9:15 a.m. Ambassador Verveer meets with Deputy Secretary Nides, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
9:45 a.m. Dr. Slaughter attends the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture by Secretary Clinton on a Broad Vision of U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, at the Department of State.
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3:00 p.m. Dr. Slaughter attends the memorial service for Richard C. Holbrooke, at the Kennedy Center.
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Anyone who cares about honoring our war dead and bringing solace to their families by returning their remains should vehemently protest Chinese President Hu's upcoming state visit to the US. Due to pressure from his government, the US and Indian Governments were forced to cancel the only US MIA remains recovery operation in India scheduled for 2010. The location of this operation is a US Army Air Force B-24 crash site in the Northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which borders on China and which China has been claiming as its own. Notwithstanding the fact that the Singh Government and the Obama Administration (in the person of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Flournoy) have displayed amazing timidity by kowtowing to this Chinese pressure, the Chinese Government's attitude toward this purely humanitarian operation is hardly conducive to fostering amicable relations between China and the United States.
ReplyDeleteGary Zaetz
Nephew of USAAF 1st Lt. Irwin Zaetz, missing in Arunachal Pradesh, India since January 25,1944
Project Homecoming
The Defense Department has just informed the families of the crew of the B-24 "Hot as Hell" (Missing Air Crew Report 2140) that all hopes of a resumption of recovery efforts at the "Hot as Hell" anytime in the foreseeable future have been dashed, and the Department of Defense is putting all the blame on the Government of India. While the Government of India certainly shoulders a good deal of the blame, the United States Government also shoulders a substantial share of the blame. Many credible sources in the Indian Government and in the press covering both Indian and American defense issues have confirmed that the Congress Party-led coalition in India and the Obama Administration have joined forces in an anti-humanitarian effort to submit subserviently to Chinese Government demands that MIA recovery efforts in the disputed territory of Arunachal Pradesh be canceled.
ReplyDeleteThe Government of India is apparently too fearful of Chinese intimidation to risk facing up to Chinese pressure, and the Obama Administration's clearly ascendant "kowtow faction" in the White House National Security Council and the State Department, led by Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, is more concerned with maintaining good trade and economic relations with China than risk angering China over Arunachal Pradesh.
It is also clear from the letter that the Obama Administration has no problem with making a mockery of the truth by unfairly putting all the blame for this decision on the Government of India. Both Governments are guilty here. The 2008 agreement, reached by the Government of India and the Bush Administration in the joint US-India Defense Policy Group, that allowed the first MIA recovery operations in India in thirty years, now lies in tattered ruins. The Bush Administration's achievement in reaching this agreement, in the face of Chinese pressure, stands in sharp contrast to the Obama Administration's cowardice and timidity.
Not only has this joint decision of the Congress party regime in India and the Obama Administration crushed the dreams of the families of the affected airmen and betrayed the Department of Defense commitment of "no man left behind", it also puts both Governments in the position of violating long-established requirements of international humanitarian law, as codified in the Geneva Convention, that all governments make all possible efforts to recover the remains of war dead and return them to their families.
Gary Zaetz
Project Homecoming
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