| | -- By Region
-- Africa
--12/05/07 Issues Facing AFRICOM and the Unique Nature of Her Diplomatic Role as Deputy to the Commander in a U.S. Military Geographic Command; Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, U.S. Africa Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/07 Secretary Paulson's Trip to Africa; Ahmed Saeed, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/27/07 U.S. Africa Policy with Focus on Sudan and the Horn of Africa; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--06/22/07 U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Update; Ryan Henry, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/18/07 Scene Setter for the Sixth AGOA Forum; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--02/09/07 U.S. To Establish New U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM); Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/05/07 Current Developments in Sudan; Cameron Hume, Charge de'Affaires, U.S. Embassy, Khartoum, Sudan; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; 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
--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
--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
--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
--08/16/06 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
--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
--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
--05/11/06 Announcement of AGOA V Forum 2006; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; 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
--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
--12/19/05 U.S. and UN Food Relief to Southern Africa; Michael Hess, U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/05/05 Africa Update: Democracy and Human Rights; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/23/05 Finalization of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Threshold Country Program with Malawi; Goodall Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Republic of Malawi; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--09/16/05 Advancing Freedom, Peace and Prosperity in Africa; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtabel Discussion; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/13/05 New Millennium Challenge Compact with Cape Verde; Josi Maria Neves, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/03/05 AGOA: Empowering Civil Society Orgnaizations to Build Economic Prosperity: The 2005 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Dakar, Senal, July 18-20, 2005; Constance Berry Newman, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/19/05 The Signing of the First Millennium Challenge Compact; Paul Applegarth, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/08/05 U.S. Participation in the Sudan Donors' Conference, Oslo, Norway, April 11-12, 2005; Two Senior Government Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/22/05 Developments in West Africa; Mike McGovern, West Africa Project Director, Crisis Group; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--03/16/05 Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/12/05 A Step Toward Peace: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Accord; Charles R. Snyder, Senior Representative on Sudan ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/02/04 Discussion on Sudan; John Danforth, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Foreign Press Center DVC Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/16/04 Current Situation in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--11/16/04 Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; New York, New York
--10/05/04 Four G8 Compact Countries Announce their Plans to Combat Corruption; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/29/04 The Humanitarian Situation in Sudan; Roger Winter, Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. AID; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/26/04 Keeping Up Pressure on Sudan; Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/01/04 Humanitarian Crisis in Western Sudan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04 The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/07/04 Making Progress on AIDS in Africa; Ambassador Randall Tobias, Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/04 New Initiatives with African Countries; General Charles Wald, Deputy Commander for the European Command (EUCOM), USAF; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/04/04 The International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia; Andrew S. Natsios, Adminstrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/15/04 Update on Sub-Saharan Africa; Charles R. Snyder, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/02/03 President Bush's Trip to Africa; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Unofficial Transcript
--02/04/03 International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/07/03 2003 African Growth And Opportunity Act ( AGOA) Forum: Port Louis, Mauritius -- January 13-17, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary Of State For Economic, Business And Agricultural 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
--11/13/02 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
--11/01/02 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
--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
--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)
--08/06/02 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)
--07/30/02 Current African Issues; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/21/02 Africa and the Upcoming G-8 meetings; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--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)
--03/04/02 Current Events in Zimbabwe; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/12/01 Humanitarian Situation in Sudan -- A Scene-Setter for the Trip to Northern and Southern Sudan of USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios; Roger Winter, Director USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Official Transcript)
--07/03/01 Bush Administration Africa Policy: The First Six Months and Looking Ahead; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
-- East Asia and Pacific
--03/19/08 Moving Forward in 2008: The U.S.-East Asia Relationship; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/27/08 Update on Pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia; Ambassador Susan Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/08/07 The Way Forward in Burma; Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/02/07 Update on Six-Party Talks; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--08/29/07 Pre-APEC Roundtable; Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/26/07 Preview of Treasury Secretary Paulson's Trip to China; Ambassador Alan Holmer, Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/27/07 Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/31/07 Preview of Remarks to the Institutional Investors 4th Annula China Investment Forum; Clay Lowery, Acting Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/18/07 Preview of the Second Session of the Strategic Economic Dialogue with China; Ambassador Alan Holmer, Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/07 Preview of the Bush - Abe Meeting; Dennis Wilder, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs, NSC; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/17/07 U.S. - Japan Economic Relations; Senior U.S. Treasury Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/06/07 Readout on North Korea Six-Party Talks U.S.-DPRK Working Group Meetings in New York; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--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
--11/13/06 APEC Preview; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; 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
--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
--09/19/06 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
--09/12/06 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
--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
--07/11/06 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
--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
--06/09/06 G8 Summit and Related Issues; Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; 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
--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
--04/18/06 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
--11/10/05 The President's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/14/05 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Defense Department Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/13/05 Upcoming Trip to Asia; John A. Thain, CEO, New York Stock Exchange; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/04/05 The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/10/05 The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/01/05 Tsunami Aftermath: U.S. NGOs' Role in Rebuilding; James Bishop , Acting CEO and Director of Humanitarian Practice and Policy, Interaction ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05 Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/25/05 Presidents Bush and Clinton's Tsunami Region Visit, February 19-21; Ambassador Douglas A. Hartwick, Senior Coordinator of the State Department's Tsunami Reconstruction; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05 Update: U.S. Government Relief Efforts in Asia; William Garvelink, Senior Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/17/04 The President's Trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Santiago, Chile; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/23/04 Future of the Alliance Policy Initiative; Richard P. Lawless, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Asia-Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04 The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/10/04 Foreign Media Credentialling for the Sea Island Summit of G8 Nations, June 8-10, 2004; Barry Bennett, Director of Communications, Sea Island Summit Planning Organization; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/20/03 U.S.-Taiwan-China Issues; Randy Schriver, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/10/03 Update on Asian-Pacific Issues; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Transcript from the Department of Defense Web Site
--10/03/03 Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--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)
--10/15/02 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)
--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)
--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)
--04/24/02 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)
--04/11/02 Scenesetter for Trip to Japan and China, April 17-24, 2002; Don Evans, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--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)
--11/19/01 U.S. Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific Region: An Overview; James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/10/01 Upcoming APEC Meetings in Shanghai, China; Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Coordinator for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/16/01 Scene-Setter for the G-8 Summit in Genoa; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/30/01 Meeting with Washington-based Japanese Media; Senator Howard Baker, U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Japan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/24/01 East Asia Through the Prism of the U.S.-Japan Relationship; Thomas Foley, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/12/01 U.S. Asian Policy Overview; Stanley Roth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
-- Europe
--04/07/08 The NATO Summit; Dan Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--10/18/07 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Goran Lennmarker, President, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/06/07 Greek Wildfires; Ky Luu, Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/27/07 NATO Issues and How It Relates to Afghanistan; Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, NATO Deputy Chairman; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/30/07 U.S.-European Union: A Post-Summit Readout; Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/25/07 Key Issues at the NATO Ministerial; Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/23/07 Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Transatlantic Community:Trade, Economics, Climate Change, and Global Cooperation; Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--04/04/07 Kosovo Final Status Issues; Ambassador Frank Wisner, Secretary of State's Special Envoy for Kosovo Final Status Talks; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--03/28/07 Missile Defense and Europe; Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering, Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/22/07 U.S. Missile Defense Plans for Europe; Dan Fried , Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/09/07 U.S.-EU Economic Issues; C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; 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
--10/03/06 Recent Developments in U.S. - Turkey Relations; Ambassador Ross Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--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
--09/20/06 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
--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
--07/11/06 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
--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
--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
--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
--04/10/06 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
--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
--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
--02/08/06 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
--09/19/05 The United States and Europe: Addressing Global Challenges Together; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--06/03/05 Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, DC, July 1-5; Senior Assembly Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/07/05 European Crisis Areas; Nicholas Whyte, European Program Director for the Crisis Group; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--03/10/05 U.S. Perspectives on European Drug Policy and "Harm Reduction"; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, The White House; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--12/15/04 U.S. Foreign Policy after Secretary Powell's Trip to Europe and Morocco, December 6-11; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/03/04 U.S. Perspectives on Developments in Iraq in Relation to Turkey; Ron Schlicher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Special Roundtable Briefing for Turkish Journalists
--10/05/04 Four G8 Compact Countries Announce their Plans to Combat Corruption; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04 The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/04 NATO, Iraq, U.S.-European Relations and Other Current International Issues; William Cohen, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/05/04 U.S. - European Union Relations; Rockwell Schnabel, Ambassador to the European Union; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/08/04 The Cyprus Settlements and Prospects; Senior State Department Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/30/04 Accession of Seven New Nations and Other NATO Issues; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/10/04 Foreign Media Credentialling for the Sea Island Summit of G8 Nations, June 8-10, 2004; Barry Bennett, Director of Communications, Sea Island Summit Planning Organization; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/05/04 Secretary Powell's Recent Trip to Georgia and Russia and The Current State of U.S.-Georgian and U.S.-Russian Relations; Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs ; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/08/04 Discussion of the Current Status of the Cyprus Negotiations; Ambassador Michael Klosson, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/23/03 U.S-European Union Summit, Washington, June 25, 2003; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/14/03 Discussion on the WTO Case on the EU Biotech Moratorium; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/07/03 NATO's Expansion and Future ; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/13/03 The Recent Trip of Secretary Rumsfeld to Italy and Germany and International Support for the Global War on Terrorism; J.D. Crouch, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial 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.
--11/14/02 The NATO Summit in Prague, November 21-22, 2002; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/21/02 Africa and the Upcoming G-8 meetings; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background 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)
--05/17/02 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)
--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)
--04/15/02 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)
--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)
--03/06/02 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)
--08/21/01 Her Upcoming Trip to Ukraine and the Caucusus; Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/24/01 Scene-Setter for Trip to Russia; Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/16/01 Scene-Setter for the G-8 Summit in Genoa; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/08/01 U.S.-European Relations on the Eve of the President's Trip; Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/09/01 U.S. Relations with Russian and the NIS; Stephen R. Sestanovich, Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the NIS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
-- Middle East and North Africa
--04/10/08 Update from U.S. Embassy in Iraq; Philip Reeker, Counselor to Ambassador Ryan Crocker, U.S. Embassy Baghdad; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--03/06/08 Recent USAID Developments in Iraq; James Kunder, Acting Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/21/08 U.S. Policy and Developments in the Middle East; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/06/08 Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Jordan; Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/05/07 U.S. Agency for International Development Activity in Iraq; Denise A. Herbol, Deputy Mission Director, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/30/07 Election Process of the New Lebanese President; Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon; Foreign Press Center Digital Video Conference (DVC) Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/29/07 Arab Americans and the Middle East Policy in the 2008 U.S. Elections; Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/30/07 The Middle East Peace Process; Senior U.S. Department of State Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/07 U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Operational Update and Understanding the Asymmetric Conflict; Brigadier General Robert Holmes, USAF, CENTCOM Deputy Director for Operations; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/20/07 Iraq: Next Steps After the Surge; Lieutenant Colonel Bob Bateman, U.S. Army Ranger; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/27/07 Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/23/07 Outcomes of the United Nations Geneva Conference on Displaced Iraqis; Ellen Sauerbrey, U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/19/07 Syria and the Assad Regime: Another Missed Opportunity; J.Scott Carpenter , Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/23/07 Iraqi Refugees; Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/13/07 Business Development Mission to Saudi Arabia for the U.S. Saudi Arabian Business Council; Israel Hernandez , Assistant Secretary of for Trade Promotion, U.S. Department of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; 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 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
--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
--10/03/06 Survey of Young Leaders in the United Arab Emirates; Keith Reinhard, President, Business for Diplomatic Action; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--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
--09/12/06 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
--09/06/06 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
--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
--08/15/06 Middle East Update; David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--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
--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
--03/23/06 Middle East Update; David Welch , Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--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
--02/15/06 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
--12/12/05 Iraq: Upcoming Elections for the Iraqi Council of Representatives; Ambassador James Jeffrey, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/05 Progress Toward Completion of the Doha Round; Recent G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in London; U.S. Efforts to Help Iraqis Overhaul Their Economy and Rebuild Their Infrastructure; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/09/05 Preview of the Forum for the Future, November 11-12, 2005, Manama, Bahrain; Liz Cheney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for BMENA ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/02/05 Between Two Worlds: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam; Zainab Salbi, President and CEO, Women for Women International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/21/05 Recent Developments in the Middle East; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/18/05 Iraq: Post Referendum Update; Ambassador James Jeffrey , Sr. Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/24/05 Gaza Disengagement Update; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/13/05 The U.S. and the Future of Iraq; Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/17/05 International Conference on Iraq, June 21-22, 2005, Brussels, Belgium; Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Senior Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/17/05 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Education Ministerial Meeting in Amman, Jordan, May 22-23, 2005; D.J. Nordquist, Acting Director, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Education; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/06/05 Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) Two Years Later; Catherine Novelli, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05 Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/05 Founding Mothers -- Next Steps in Post-Election Afghanistan and Iraq ; Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobrianski; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/05 Iraq Election Update; Dr. Farid Ayar, Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/28/05 Elections in Iraq ; U.S. Department of State Official ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/21/05 Elections in Iraq; U.S. Department of State Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05 Promoting Free and Fair Elections in Iraq: NGOs and Building the Political Process ; Judy Van Rest, Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/15/04 U.S. Foreign Policy after Secretary Powell's Trip to Europe and Morocco, December 6-11; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/03/04 U.S. Perspectives on Developments in Iraq in Relation to Turkey; Ron Schlicher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Special Roundtable Briefing for Turkish Journalists
--11/16/04 Current Situation in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--11/16/04 Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; New York, New York
--11/10/04 Forum for the Future Meeting in Morocco, December 11, 2004; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/04 Middle East Partnership Initiative; J. Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--09/27/04 Building a New Iraq: Iraqi Women Step Forward in Partnership; Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/22/04 Broader Middle East and North Africa Upcoming Meetings; Alan Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/23/04 Unearthing Mass Graves: Iraqis Coming to Terms with Their Past; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--07/21/04 Unearthed Mass Graves: Iraqis Coming to Terms with Their Past; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/01/04 Educational Cooperation Between the U.S. and Libya; Thomas Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04 The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/04 NATO, Iraq, U.S.-European Relations and Other Current International Issues; William Cohen, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/14/04 The Coalition Provisional Authority and Democracy-Building in Iraq; David Ballard, Director, Office of Foreign Press, U.S. Departmemt of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Discussion; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--03/25/04 The Coalition Provisional Authority and Democracy-Building in Iraq; David Ballard, Director, Office of Foreign Press, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/04 Iraq: From Mass Graves to a Better Life; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/04 Operation Iraqi Freedom: One Year Later; General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/11/04 Women in Iraq: New Beginnings; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, Bureau of Global Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/04/04 U.S.-Iraq Fulbright Program ; Thomas A. Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs, U.S. Department of State ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/19/03 The U.S. Commitment to Women in Iraq; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--10/27/03 The Achievements of the Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid and Progress on Economic and Financial Reconstruction; Dr. John Taylor, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/22/03 Preview of Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid, October 23-23, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/03 Update on USAID Reconstruction Activities in Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/03 Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/24/03 Iraqi Public Works Reconstruction; Mrs. Nasreen Mustafa Sadiq Barwari, Iraqi Minister of Public Works; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/17/03 Status of Rebuilding and Training the Iraqi Army; Walter B. Slocombe, Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Sector Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/09/03 Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East Peace Process; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/05/03 Preparations for an Iraq Donors Conference; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs ; Foreign Press Center; Washington D.C. -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03 Recently Completed Visits to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and Expansion of Human and Civil Rights and Supporting Democracy in These Three Countries; Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/23/03 Coalition's Post-War Reconstruction and Stabilization Efforts; Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/13/03 U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Priorities in the Middle East and the Rest of the Globe; Richard Haass, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/28/03 Update on Iraq; Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/23/03 Understanding United Nations Resolution 1483; Dr. Kim R. Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/03 Reconsruction and Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Iraq; Wendy Chamberlin, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/12/03 Lifting UN Sanctions on Iraq: Helping the Iraqi People Build Their Future; Dr. Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/01/03 U.S. Assistance to the Iraqi Economy; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/25/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/21/03 Humanitarian Aid for Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/15/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/11/03 Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/10/03 Building a Coalition for Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction in Iraq; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/28/03 Eliminating the Threat to World Security Posed by the Iraqi Regime and Halting the Torture, Imprisonment and Execution of Innocents; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/26/03 Humanitarian and Reconstruction Aid to Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/19/03 Assisting Iraqis with Their Future: Planning for Democracy.; Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--03/06/03 Human Rights and Women in Iraq: Voices of Iraqi Women.; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/28/03 Humanitarian Relief Planning for Iraq; Richard Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/27/03 Second UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq; Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/26/03 Iraq's Voices of Freedom; James Larocca, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/07/03 Iraq Update and Other Nonproliferation Issues; John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonprolilferation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/21/03 White House Publication "Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003 "; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND 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)
--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)
--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)
--04/12/01 Regional Dynamics in the Middle East and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace - Considerations for U.S. Policy; Amb. Edward Djerejian, Director, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
-- South and Central Asia
--04/23/08 The Year Ahead in South and Central Asia; Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/28/08 Toy Donation to Pakistani Children in Karachi and Lahore; Ann E. W. Stone, President, The Stone Group; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/27/07 NATO Issues and How It Relates to Afghanistan; Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, NATO Deputy Chairman; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/27/07 Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/25/07 A Comprehensive Approach to Counternarcotics in Afghanistan; John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/22/07 South and Central Asia Regional Update; Senior State Department 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
--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
--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
--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
--04/10/06 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
--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
--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
--02/08/06 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
--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
--10/21/05 Update on Afghanistan; Ambassador Ronald Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05 Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/05 Founding Mothers -- Next Steps in Post-Election Afghanistan and Iraq ; Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobrianski; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05 Update: U.S. Government Relief Efforts in Asia; William Garvelink, Senior Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/15/04 The First Democratic Elections in Afghanistan: A Report by the Bipartisan Observer Team; Bernard Aronson, Board of Directors, National Democratic Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/07/04 Afghanistan Presidential Election 2004; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/26/04 Scene Setter on the International Conference on Afghanistan, March 31-April 1 in April; Ambassador William Taylor, Coordinator for Afghanistan, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/17/03 Rebuilding Afghanistan; James Kunder, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and Near East; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/19/03 Progress and Prospects in Afghanistan; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/03 Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/09/03 Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East Peace Process; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03 Recently Completed Visits to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and Expansion of Human and Civil Rights and Supporting Democracy in These Three Countries; Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/17/03 Roundtable on Afghan Women's Issues; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues in the Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/03 Second Afghan Donors' Conference; Ambassador Johnson, Coordinator for Afghan Reconstruction, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/12/03 Recent Media Tour to Afghanistan; Haider Karzai, Director, Los Angeles Foreign Press Center, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/15/03 Rebuilding Afghanistan: High-Level U.S. Government Officials and Private Sector Representatives' Trip to Kabul, Afghanistan ; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing.; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--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
--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
--11/15/02 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.
--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)
--10/08/02 Operation Enduring Freedom: 1 Year Later; Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--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)
--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)
--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)
--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)
--12/18/01 Demining in Afghanistan; Lincoln Bloomfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Miliary Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/19/01 Report on Recent Visit to Afghanistan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/08/01 Update: Humanitarian Assistance to the People of Afghanistan; Alan J. Kreczko, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/06/01 Human Rights and the Taliban; Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/02/01 Background Briefing on Taliban Denial and Deception Techniques; Senior Defense Department Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/26/01 U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to the People of Afghanistan: An Update from His Recent Trip to Pakistan; Bear McConnell, Director, Central Asia Task Force, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/11/01 Humanitarian Assistance to the Afghan People; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/21/01 Her Upcoming Trip to Ukraine and the Caucusus; Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/19/01 Scene-Setter for Trip to South Asia; Christina B. Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--02/06/01 Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan; Al Eastham, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/09/01 U.S. Relations with Russian and the NIS; Stephen R. Sestanovich, Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the NIS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
-- The Americas
--02/27/08 Update on Pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia; Ambassador Susan Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/22/08 Remarks on President Bush's Economic Agenda; Christopher A. Padilla, U.S. Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/22/08 The Western Hemisphere: 2007 in Review and Looking Ahead to 2008; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - Video
--11/16/07 The Merida Initiative: United States-Mexico-Central America Security Cooperation; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/12/07 Roundtable on U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Panama, Peru and Colombia ; Carlos M. Gutierrez , U.S. Secretary of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/06/07 U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance: Update on Hurricane Felix; Ky Luu, Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/29/07 Pre-APEC Roundtable; Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/24/07 Upcoming Travel to El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico; Anna Escobedo Cabral, U.S. Treasurer; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/30/07 President Bush's Meeting with Brazilian President Lula Da Silva at Camp David; Dan Fisk, Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, National Security Council; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/31/07 Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Mexico and Efforts to Promote Free Trade, Economic Growth and Security in the Western Hemisphere; Carlos M. Gutierrez , Secretary of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/25/07 U.S. Policy on the Future of Cuba After Fidel Castro ; Caleb McCarry, Cuba Transition Coordinator; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/16/07 Update on Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative; Bob Jacksta, Executive Director of Passenger Security and Facilitation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, DHS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official transcript
--01/12/07 Upcoming Visit to U.S.-Mexico Border Region to Identify Ways of Improving Trade Efficiency Along the Border; David Bohigian, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06 APEC Preview; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; 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
--10/20/06 U.S.-Mexico Trade Relationship; David Bohigian, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce; 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
--08/01/06 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
--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
--11/17/05 Progress Report on Anti-Drug Efforts in Colombia ; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/01/05 Natural Disasters: U.S. Assistance to Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Cuba; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/13/05 Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact with Honduras; Ricardo Maduro Joest, President of the Republic of Honduras; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/05 Millennium Challenge Corporation's Decision on the Honduras Compact; Paul Applegarth, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/05/05 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative; Frank Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/22/05 Trilateral Meeting - U.S.-Canada-Mexico on March 23, 2005; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/09/05 Counterterrorism Efforts in the Organization of American States; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05 Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/17/04 The President's Trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Santiago, Chile; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/05/04 Four G8 Compact Countries Announce their Plans to Combat Corruption; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/01/04 U.S. Assistance to Hurricane Victims in Haiti and Other Caribbean Nations; Adolfo Franco, U.S. Agency for International Development Asst. Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/10/04 Recent Progress in Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia and Mexico; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/16/04 A Preview of the Haiti Donor's Conference; John Taylor, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/28/04 Corruption Is a Threat to Democracy and Development: One of the Issues at the Organization of American States' 34th General Assembly, June 6-8, Quito, Ecuador; Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/10/04 Current Topics in United States Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean; Peter DeShazo, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/23/04 Counterterrorism Efforts in the Organization of American States; Ambassador Cofer Black, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/03 Special Summit of the Americas ; Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/24/03 Scenesetter for OAS Special Conference on Security, 27-28 October, 2003, Mexico City; Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/08/03 Inter-American Education Ministerial; Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03 Current Developments in Colombia in the Fight Against Drug Trafficking and Narcoterrorism; John Walters; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/11/03 Readout on OAS General Assembly (June 8-10) in Santiago, Chile; J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/16/03 Third Regular Session Of Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism, January 22-24, 2003, San Salvador, El Salvador; Amb. Roger Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative Before The Organization Of American States (OAS); 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.
--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)
--10/15/02 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)
--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.
--08/13/02 A Balanced Counterdrug Po |