| | 2006 Foreign Press Center Briefings
December
--12/20/06 Outcome of Secretary of Energy Bodman's Trip to Asia and the Five-Party Ministerial Talks; Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary for International Relations and Policy, U.S.Department of Energy; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/20/06 Review of 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security and Priorities for 2007; Paul Rosenzweig, DHS Counselor to Ass't Secretary for Policy and Acting Ass't Secretary for International Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/06 Conflict Diamonds; Sue Saarnio, Special Advisor for Conflict Diamonds, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--12/05/06 Preview of the 110th Congress; Vic Fazio, Former Congressman (D); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
November
--11/30/06 The President's Comprehensive Climate Strategy and the Clean Coal Initiative; James L. Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06 APEC Preview; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06 U.S. Policy Toward Iran; Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/06 APEC Ministerial and Summit Meetings; Ambassador Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/06 Issues Affecting the Bilateral Trade and Investment Climate Between the United States and the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; David Bohigan , U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/07/06 2006 Midterm Elections - Election Day Program; Foreign Press Center Briefings; Washington, DC
--11/03/06 Countdown to the 2006 Midterm Elections; Chuck Todd, National Journal Columnist and Editor-In-Chief of The Hotline; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/02/06 Advanced Cancer Treatment Technology from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Dr. James Cox, Professor and Head of Radiation Oncology Division, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
October
--10/27/06 Upcoming Elections in the Democratic Republic of The Congo; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/26/06 Update on Iraq; Ambassador David Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/25/06 Preview of the 2006 Midterm Elections; John Zogby, CEO, Zogby International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/24/06 U.S. National Space Policy; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/24/06 Update on NATO Operations in Afghanistan; General Jones, US EUCOM and NATO SACEUR; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/20/06 U.S.-Mexico Trade Relationship; David Bohigian, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/19/06 The Military Commission Act of 2006; John B. Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/06 Recent Developments in U.S. - Turkey Relations; Ambassador Ross Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/06 Survey of Young Leaders in the United Arab Emirates; Keith Reinhard, President, Business for Diplomatic Action; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/06 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/06 Update on NYSE Group, Inc. Initiatives; John A. Thain, CEO, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Group, Inc.; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
September
--09/27/06 Preview of the 2006 Midterm Elections; Charlie Cook, Founder & Publisher of the Cook Political Report and National Journal Columnist; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/27/06 U.S. Consultations with Turkey and Iraq on Counterring the PKK; General Joseph W. Ralston, U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the PKK; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/25/06 Hospital Ship Mercy Deployment/Current Pacific Command Operations; Admiral Gary Roughead, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Washington Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/21/06 UNGA: Review on Africa; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York City -- Official Transcript
--09/20/06 Background Briefing on the Meeting of NATO's Foreign Ministers; Two Senior U.S. Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--09/20/06 A Report on the Success and Continuing Challenges Associated with Avian and Pandemic Influenza One Year after the Launch of the International Partnership; Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; New York Foreign Press Center; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--09/19/06 U.S. - China Energy Policy Dialogue; Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy; Washington Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC
--09/18/06 Preview of the 61st UN General Assembly ; Kristin Silverberg, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--09/14/06 The White House Conference on Global Literacy; Roundtable Discussion with Participants in the White House Conference on Global Literacy ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--09/12/06 Five Years After 9/11- Looking Forward on the War on Terrorism: Current Coalition Operations In Iraq and Afghanistan; Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Former Deputy Director, Plans and Strategy (J5), US Central Command; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--09/12/06 Preview of the Upcoming Meeting Between U.S. President George W. Bush and President Roh Moo-Hyun of the Republic of Korea; A Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/08/06 Report on Lower Manhattan and New York City's Progress Five Years After 9/11; Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--09/07/06 Department of Defense Directive on Detainee Operations, the Release of the Army Field Manual for Human Intelligence Collection and an Update on Military Commissions; Cully Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/07/06 Update on Detainee Issues and Military Commissions Legislation; John Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/06/06 Update on Iran Nuclear Issue; Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
August
--08/31/06 Progress in Efforts to Control Afghan Poppy Cultivation; Tom Schweich, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/24/06 Stopping Genocide in Darfur: Ongoing U.S. Efforts and Working with the UN Security Council; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/23/06 U.S. Policy Toward Cuba; Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/22/06 Humanitarian Assistance to Lebanon; William J. Garvelink, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/22/06 Hurricane Katrina, Coastal Protection and Reconstruction Efforts; Don Basham, Chief of Engineering at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/16/06 Upcoming Trip to Kenshasa to Open a Hospital and Participation in the NBA's Basketball Without Borders Africa Program; Dikembe Mutombo, NBA Houston Rockets; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--08/15/06 Middle East Update; David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/01/06 Recent Trip to Peru on Friday July 28, 2006 and Broader Hemispheric Issues; Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
July
--07/27/06 Update on Humanitarian Assistance to Lebanon; James Kunder, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/25/06 Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/21/06 East Asia Update; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/21/06 Readout from Recent Trip to Turkey, Greece and Cyprus; Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/18/06 Agriculture & The Doha Round of WTO Negotiations; Jason Hafemeister, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Agriculture ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/17/06 South and Central Asia Update; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/11/06 President Bush's Trip to the G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/11/06 Status/Progress of the World Trade Center Site; Daniel Libeskind, Author of the Master Plan for Ground Zero and the World Trade Center Site; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
June
--06/27/06 Preview of the Upcoming Visit of Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi; Senior U.S. Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/26/06 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; J. Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/21/06 The 2006 Midterm Elections; Chuck Todd, National Journal Contributing Editor; Editor-in-Chief, The Hotline; and MSNBC Political Commentator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/19/06 World Refugee Day 2006 - The U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program; Kelly Ryan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/15/06 Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow Forum; Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Founder, Cordoba Initiative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--06/09/06 G8 Summit and Related Issues; Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/05/06 FBI' Work with Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, Criminal Investigation, and Cyber Crime; John Miller, Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--06/01/06 The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; Dr. Mark R. Dybul, Acting United States Global AIDS Coordinator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
May
--05/31/06 25 Years of AIDS; Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Foreign Press Center Conference Call; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/24/06 IPFM's Mission and Upcoming First Annual Report; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--05/22/06 Iraq Update; Ambassador James Jeffrey, Senior Advisor for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/22/06 Programs and Topic of Interest to the U.S. Small Business Administration; Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/22/06 U.S. Soccer on the Eve of the 2006 World Cup; Sunil K. Gulati, Columbia University Professor of Economics and President of the U.S. Soccer Federation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/12/06 Upcoming Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction in London & the African Development Bank Meetings; Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/12/06 Update on NYPD Press Credentialing and Covering New York City; Paul Browne, Deputy Commissioner,for Public Information, New York Police Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/11/06 Announcement of AGOA V Forum 2006; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/10/06 Deployment of Hospital Ship 'Mercy' and Current Pacific Command Operations; Admiral Gary Roughead, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
April
--04/28/06 War on Terror; Victor Renuart, Joint Staff Lieutenant General; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--04/27/06 Combatting the Global Drug Threat: Scene Setter for the 2006 International Drug Enforcement Conference; Michael Braun, Chief of Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/06 USAID Update on Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa; Michael Hess, USAID Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/06 Upcoming Asian Development Bank Meetings and India Visit; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/24/06 Secretary Rice's Participation in NATO Ministerial and Visits ; Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/18/06 Global Development Alliance Initiative; Daniel Runde, USAID's Office of Global Development Alliances; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/18/06 U.S.-China Trade Relations and Chinese President Hu Jintao's Visit; Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/17/06 U.S. China Relations and the Upcoming Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao; Senior U.S. Government Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/11/06 Combating Global Terrorism and Crime; John Miller, Assistant Director for Public Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/10/06 Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan: Recent Progress and European Support for Institutional Stability; John Walters, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/06/06 U.S. Foreign Policy Update; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
March
--03/30/06 Poverty Reduction Efforts in Latin America and the Agenda for the Annual IDB meetings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ; Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Transcript of briefing
--03/23/06 Middle East Update; David Welch , Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--03/22/06 U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement ; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/13/06 U.S. Immigration Policy and National Security; Emilio Gonzalez, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--03/09/06 The Human Rights Commission and UN Management Reform; Ambassador John Bolton, Permanent Representative to the UN; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--03/08/06 The Release of the State Department's 2005 Annual Report on Human Rights; Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/03/06 How Are Bloggers Redefining News in the U.S.?; Sree Sreenivsan, Dean of Students and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Foreign Press Center Briefing and Discussion; New York, New York
--03/02/06 Elections in Belarus and Ukraine; David J. Kramer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/01/06 The 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
February
--02/28/06 Development of Think Tanks and Their Role as Catalysts for Ideas and Actions in the U.S. Political System; James McGann, Director, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/28/06 Influence of Think Tanks on U.S. Foreign Policy Formulation; Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/28/06 Reporters Without Borders; Tala Dowlatshahi, New York Director for Reporters Without Borders; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--02/24/06 Discussion of Stephen Hess book "Through Their Eyes: Foreign Correspondents in the United States"; Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Governance Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Foreign Press Center Discussion; Washington, DC
--02/24/06 Iraq Reconstruction Update; Dawn Liberi, Mission Director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/21/06 The Long Global War Against Violent Extremism, Current Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and NATO Issues; Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt, Deputy Director, Plans and Strategy, (J5), U.S. Central Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/16/06 Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP); Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/15/06 Update on U.S. Detainee Policy and Criminal Prosecutions in Iraq; John B. Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/09/06 Middle East Update; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/06 Current Allied Command Operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; General James Jones, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and US European Command (EUCOM) Commander; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/06/06 Results of the IAEA Emergency Meeting on Iran - the U.S. View; Robert Joseph, Under Secretary for State for Arms Control and International Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/06/06 The Release to Congress of the US Military's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report; Ryan Henry, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
January
--01/27/06 Scene Setter for The London Conference on Afghanistan - January 31-February 1, 2006; Ambassador Ronald Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/26/06 Rebuilding New Orleans and Louisiana; Michael J. Olivier, Secretary of Economic Development for Louisiana; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/25/06 Preview of The Conference Board Report on Global Productivity; Bart van Ark, Director, International Economic Research, The Conference Board; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/19/06 Polls: An Important Tool on the Journalist's Workbench; Brian Katulis, Research Consultant and Analyst; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/18/06 A Social Security Number: Do I Need One as a Foreign Journalist?; John Shallman, New York Regional Communications Director, Social Security Administration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/11/06 Craigslist; Craig Newmark, Founder, Craiglist; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--01/10/06 Coming to America: US-VISIT and U.S. Visa Waiver Program Updates; Jim Williams, Director, US-VISIT, Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
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