DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
10:45 a.m. Secretary Kerry delivers remarks to the International Security Advisory Board, at the Department of State.
11:30 a.m. Secretary Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the Department of State.
Pre set for video cameras: 10:30 a.m. from the 23rd Street Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 11:00 a.m. from the 23rd Street Lobby.
12:45 p.m. Secretary Kerry hosts a lunch in honor of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the Department of State.
2:30 p.m. Secretary Kerry and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius hold refugee consultations with Members of the House and Senate, on Capitol Hill.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
Assistant Secretary Fernandez is on foreign travel to Mexico for the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
Assistant Secretary Jacobson is on foreign travel to Mexico with Vice President Biden and will participate in the launch of the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the President and Director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Dr. Susan Avery, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION ANNE CLAIRE RICHARD10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Richard appears before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee to deliver testimony on the Middle East & North Africa: Examining the Syrian Refugee Crisis, on Capitol Hill.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS DANNY RUSSEL11:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Russel attends Secretary Kerry’s bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the Department of State.

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR UZRA ZEYA
11:30 a.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya attends Secretary Kerry’s bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the Department of State.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY8:30 a.m. Ambassador Goosby delivers remarks on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the Corporate Council on Africa’s “Investing in Health” Monthly Breakfast Forum, in Washington, DC.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES CATHERINE RUSSELL12:00 p.m. Ambassador Russell meets with Bank of America representatives Anne Finucane and Andrew Plepler to discuss women’s economic participation, at the Department of State.
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Russell meets with Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation to discuss the foundation’s work on women’s empowerment, at the Department of State.

SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM IRA FORMAN
Special Envoy Forman is on foreign travel to Oslo, Norway through September 19 and Warsaw, Poland; Paris, France; and Budapest, Hungary from September 22 through October 5 to attend International Anti-Semitic Conferences.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
Secretary Kerry is on foreign travel to Geneva, Switzerland to attend meetings to discuss matters concerning Syria, including the use of chemical weapons and steps to address these developments.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINES AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
Assistant Secretary Fernandez is on foreign travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil through September 12 to participate in the third U.S.-Brazil Innovation Summit at the headquarters of Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the swearing-in ceremony for the U.S. Ambassador-designate to Brazil Liliana Ayalde, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones presents to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology with the Deputy Under Secretary for USDA's Research, Education, and Economics Ann Bartuska, the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science, Office of Management and Budget Sally Ericsson, and the Acting Director for the U.S. Geological Survey Suzette Kimball, at National Academy of Sciences.
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the President of the Max Planck Society Dr. Peter Gruss, at the Department of State.
3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in a briefing on the implementation of the Executive Order Combating Wildlife Trafficking with the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe and the Department of Justice Acting Assistant Attorney General Robert Dreher, at the Rayburn House Office Building.
7:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones attends a dinner with EU Environmental Commission Representatives, in Washington, DC.

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS PAUL JONES
Acting Assistant Secretary Paul Jones accompanies Secretary Kerry on foreign travel.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS DANNY RUSSEL
Assistant Secretary Russel is on foreign travel to the Republic of Korea, Japan, Brunei, Indonesia, and China from September 5 through 14.

OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE-STEPHEN RAPP
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel to Juba, South Sudan, to attend a conference called “The Inauguration of the National Committee on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity and all forms of Discrimination in the Republic of South Sudan.”

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY10:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and General Martin Dempsey testify before the House Armed Services Committee, on Capitol Hill.
2:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry participates in a Google+ Hangout on "Syria: Weighing the U.S. Response", at the Department of State. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS WILLIAM BROWNFIELD
Assistant Secretary Brownfield is on foreign travel to Japan to discuss international and bilateral cooperation. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
12:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a lunch with the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the U.S. Anibal de Castro, the Ambassador of El Salvador to the U.S. Ruben Zamora, Embassy of Nicaragua to the U.S. Chargé Alcides Montiel, the Ambassador of Panama to the U.S. Mario Ernesto Jaramillo, the Ambassador of Costa Rica to the U.S. Muni Figueres Boggs, Ambassador Julio Ligorria of Guatemala, and the Ambassador of Belize to the U.S. Nestor Mendez, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS DANNY RUSSEL
Assistant Secretary Russel is on foreign travel to the Republic of Korea, Japan, Brunei, Indonesia, and China from September 5 through 14. 

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR UZRA ZEYA
9:30 a.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya attends a meeting with the Federal Advisory Committee on the Secretary’s Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society, at the Department of State.
10:30 a.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya attends a swearing-in ceremony for Daniel Brooks Baer, U.S. Ambassador-designate for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, at the Department of State.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY10:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby delivers remarks on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, DC.

SPECIAL ADVISER FOR GLOBAL YOUTH ISSUES ZEENAT RAHMAN
Special Adviser Rahman is on foreign travel in Costa Rica through September 11 to co-lead a delegation to the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) “BYND 2013” Global Youth Summit. She will meet with the Secretary General of the ITU Hamadoun Touré, Minister for Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Alejandro Cruz, the local American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and private sector representatives

DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING DAVID MCKEAN2:00 p.m. Director McKean meets with Dr. Thomas Bagger, head of Germany’s Policy Planning office, at the Department of State.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY

Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN

5:30 p.m. Under Secretary Sherman meets with Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ambassador Alexander “Sandy” Vershbow, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS 

Assistant Secretary Brownfield is on travel to Miami, Florida to address developing security challenges in the Caribbean, meet with local and federal elected officials, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) partnership agreement with the Port of Miami, and participate in a graduation event for Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) officers.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with 2011 Presidential Management Fellows, at the Department of State. 
 

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR UZRA ZEYA

Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya is on foreign travel to Belgium from August 27-29, as the head of the U.S. delegation for annual human rights consultations between the United States and European Union. 

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ANDREW O’BRIEN
Special Representative O’Brien is on foreign travel through August 30 to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to attend the TIGERS@Mekong Strategy Meeting and DEMO ASEAN.

DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING DAVID MCKEAN

11:00 a.m. Director McKean meets with Ambassador David Thorne, at the Department of State.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY

Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE

3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Nepali Charge d’Affaires Narayan Prasad Mainali, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS WILLIAM BROWNFIELD

Assistant Secretary Brownfield is on travel to Miami, Florida to address developing security challenges in the Caribbean, meet with local and federal elected officials, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) partnership agreement with the Port of Miami, and participate in a graduation event for Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) officers. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON

9:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with U.S. Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hardt, at the Department of State.

11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Foreign Minister of The Bahamas Frederick Mitchell, at the Department of State.

12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Canadian Associate Deputy Minister Peter Boehm, at the Canadian Embassy.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY 
Ambassador Goosby is on foreign travel to Yaoundé, Cameroon to conduct clinic site visits and meet with civil society groups and senior government officials.


SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ANDREW O’BRIEN
Special Representative O’Brien is on foreign travel through August 30 to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to attend the TIGERS@Mekong Strategy Meeting and DEMO ASEAN.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY

Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.

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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
12:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with Peruvian Ambassador to the U.S. Harold Forsyth, in Washington, DC.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a Panama Interagency Policy Committee meeting, at the White House.4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a Mexico Interagency Policy Committee meeting. at the White House.


ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, at the Department of State.

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY 
Ambassador Goosby is on foreign travel to Yaoundé, Cameroon to conduct clinic site visits and meet with civil society groups and senior government officials.


SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ANDREW O’BRIEN
Special Representative O’Brien is on foreign travel through August 30 to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to attend the TIGERS@Mekong Strategy Meeting and DEMO ASEAN.

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