| | 2002 Foreign Press Center Briefings
December
--12/19/02 Foreign Policy and the New Congress; Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--12/13/02 Release of "Writers on America" -- A New Collection of Essays by Prominent American Writers; Stuart Holliday, Director, International Information Programs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--12/12/02 National Security Council Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--12/09/02 American Governance; Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General ; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--12/09/02 The Current Situation of the Health Care Sector in Afghanistan; James Kunder, U.S. Agency for International Development Deputy Assistant Administrator ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
November
--11/26/02 Donor Assistance to Afghanistan; William B. Taylor, U.S.Department of State Special Representative for Donor Assistance to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/26/02 The Secretary of Defense's Recent Trips to Santiago, Chile, to Attend The Defense Ministerial of the Americas and to The NATO Summit held in Prague, Czech Republic, and Other Defense Issues; Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript.
--11/19/02 Recent Developments in the Asia Pacific Region; James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/18/02 Africa: The Road to Conflict Resolution; Walter H. Kansteiner , Assistant Secretary for State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/15/02 Afghan Relief, Reconstruction and Refugee Repatriation; Arthur E. "Gene" Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript.
--11/14/02 The NATO Summit in Prague, November 21-22, 2002; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/13/02 Drought in the Horn of Africa: What the U.S. Is Doing ; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/13/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/07/02 2002 Mid-Term Election Results; Governor Marc Racicot, Chairman, Republican National Committee; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/01/02 Conflict Over Diamonds: The Ministerial Meeting to Launch the Kimberly Process International Scheme for Trade in Rough Diamonds, November 5, Interlaken, Switzerland; Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, Special Negotiator for "Conflict Diamonds"; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
October
--10/31/02 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--10/30/02 Campaign 2002: One Week Out; Charles E. Cook, Jr., Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/28/02 Briefing for New York Foreign Media; Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; New York Foreign Press Center; New York, NY Official Transcript
--10/28/02 Second Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies: Seoul, Korea, November 10-12, 2002; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--10/25/02 Campaign 2002: Polling; John Zogby, President and CEO, Zogby International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/23/02 Campaign 2002: Agricultural Issues in Campaign 2002; Jerry Hagstrom, Contributing Editor, National Journal; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Briefing)
--10/22/02 APEC Summit: Latin American and Economic Issues; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/21/02 Scenesetter for the Visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Trip of President George W. Bush to the APEC Summit; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/18/02 Update on Caspian Basin Energy Policy; Ambassador Steven Mann, Senior Advisor Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/15/02 Scenesetter for the Upcoming APEC meetings in Los Cabos, Mexico; Ambassador C. Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/11/02 Iraqi Deception and Denial; John Yurechko, Defense Intelligence Agency Officer; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/08/02 Operation Enduring Freedom: 1 Year Later; Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/07/02 Release of the 2002 Annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom; John Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/04/02 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
September
--09/16/02 New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD); Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript
--09/16/02 Western Hemisphere Affairs; Otto Reich, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript.
--09/10/02 Global War Against Terrorism: One Year Later; General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of State, Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/10/02 New York City: One Year After September 11th; Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript.
--09/09/02 Update on Tracking the Financial Assets of Terrorists: One Year Later; Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary of Treasury for Enforcement; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Briefing)
--09/06/02 Terrorism's Global Toll: Turning the Tide Together; Stuart W. Holliday, Coordinator, International Information Programs (IIP), Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/05/02 Homeland Security; Richard A. Falkenrath, Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, Senior Director for Policy and Plans, Office of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/04/02 New York City: One Year After September 11th; Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript
--09/04/02 Pentagon Renovation Progress Following the September 11 Attack; Lee Evey, Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
August
--08/28/02 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD): Trade and Finance Issues ; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/21/02 Scenesetter for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) -- Johannesburg, August 26-September 4, 2002; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/20/02 The Food Crisis in Southern Africa: The Challenge to Sustainability.; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/20/02 The State of the U.S. Economy; R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/14/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/13/02 A Balanced Counterdrug Policy Within Our Hemisphere; John P. Walters, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/07/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/06/02 Genocide and War in Central Africa: Pursuing the Criminals; Pierre Prosper, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
July
--07/31/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/30/02 Current African Issues; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/26/02 The U.S. WTO Agriculture Initiative; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/25/02 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/24/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media ; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesperson; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/19/02 USAID Initiatives in Latin America: A Readout from His Recent Trip to Colombia and Peru; Adolfo Franco, Assistant Administrator for Latin America/the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/12/02 U.S.-Mexican Labor Relations; Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/11/02 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
June
--06/21/02 Africa and the Upcoming G-8 meetings; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/21/02 The Global War Against Terrorism; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/20/02 Cycle Beads: Innovations in Natural Family Planning; Jeff Spieler, Chief of the Research, Technology and Utilization Division of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/14/02 Drug Courts and Alternative Sentencing: A View from the Bench; Judge Jeffrey Rosinek, Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Miam-Dade County; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC
--06/06/02 Scenesetter for President Mubarek's Visit to the U.S.; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/06/02 Scenesetter for the World Food Summit, Rome 10-13, 2002; Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/03/02 NSC Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs, National Security Council; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
May
--05/31/02 Report on Sudan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/30/02 Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/29/02 International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference on East Asia Security; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/23/02 The Work of the OSCE in Russia, Central Asia and the Balkans; Amb. Stephan Minikes, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/22/02 The 2002 Farm Bill: Implications for International Trade; Dr. J.B. Penn, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/21/02 The 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report; Ambassador Francis X. Taylor, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/17/02 U.S.-Russia Strategic Dialogue; Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/16/02 President Bush's Trip to Europe; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/06/02 Issues Update; Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes Issues; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/02/02 National Drug Control Strategy: Combating Narcoterrorism; John P. Walters, Director, Office of Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
April
--04/30/02 Scenesetter for Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao's Visit to the United States; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/30/02 U.S.-European Union Summit Scenesetter; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/29/02 NATO Enlargement: The Road to Prague; Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/24/02 Upcoming Visit to Korea, Japan and the Philippines ; General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/18/02 The New Unified Command Plan; General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/16/02 Nonproliferation Issues; John Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/15/02 Successes in Central Asia, The Caucasus, and Southern Europe; William Taylor, Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/11/02 Operation Enduring Freedom; General Tommy Franks, Commanding General, U.S. Central Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/11/02 Scenesetter for Trip to Japan and China, April 17-24, 2002; Don Evans, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/05/02 U.S. Energy Industry post-Enron: The View from Houston; Lee P. Brown, Mayor of Houston; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
March
--03/29/02 The New Strategic Framework with Russia; John R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/22/02 Scene Setter for Upcoming Trip to Colombia; Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/20/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/14/02 U.S. Policy Toward the East Asia Pacific Region; James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and the Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/12/02 Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/08/02 Vice President Cheney's Trip to the Middle East; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/06/02 NATO Split Over Iraq? From the Journalists' Perspective ; Steven Hess, Brookings Institution; A Brookings/Harvard Forum in Conjunction with the Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/05/02 White House Section 201 Steel Remedy Decision ; Peter Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/04/02 Current Events in Zimbabwe; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
February
--02/28/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/14/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/13/02 National Security Council Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Updated.
--02/12/02 Scenesetter on the Visit of President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraft; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/08/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/01/02 Guantanamo Bay: A First-Hand View of Camp X-Ray; Senator Daniel Inouye (D- Hawaii); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
January
--01/31/02 The War on Terrorism from the Air Force Perspective: Operations Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Noble Eagle (Homeland Security); General John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/29/02 The First Year of the Bush Administration: Preview of the State of the Union Message; Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/28/02 Narco Pollution: Illicit Drug Trade in the Andes; Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/24/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/17/02 National Security Council Briefing for Foreign Media; Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/11/02 Homeland Security: Strategies and Challenges; Frank J. Cilluffo, Special Assistant to the President, White House Office of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/09/02 Weekly Briefing for Foreign Media; Philip Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/04/02 Department of Defense Update for Foreign Media; Victoria Clarke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
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