SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
9:15 a.m. Secretary Clinton meets with the Assistant Secretaries of the Regional Bureaus, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara, at the Department of State.
(JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING IN THE BEN FRANKLIN ROOM AT APPROXIMATELY 3:00 P.M.)
Pre-set time for video cameras: 2:00 p.m. in the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:30 p.m. in the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
5:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES STEINBERG
1:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
5:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Steinberg attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJIV SHAH
10:00 a.m. Administrator Shah meets with Representative Kay Granger at the Cannon House Office Building.
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1:00 p.m. Administrator Shah meets with Congressman Chris Van Hollen at the Longworth House Office Building.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS ROBERT HORMATS
9:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers remarks from the Department of State to the Farm Foundation Round Table in Atlanta, Georgia.
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2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Mongolian Ambassador Khasbazaryn Bekhbat, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
Assistant Secretary Brimmer, Assistant Secretary Jones and Ambassador Verveer co-host an interagency meeting in preparation for the 2011 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at the Department of State.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS KURT CAMPBELL
1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Campbell joins Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara, at the Department of State.
(JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
Assistant Secretary Jones, Assistant Secretary Brimmer and Ambassador Verveer co-host an interagency meeting in preparation for the 2011 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Posner attends the Maryknoll 30th Anniversary, at the Rayburn House Office Building.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ERIC SCHWARTZ
2:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Schwartz meets with George Rupp, President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), at the Department of State.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock holds meetings in New York with various exchange program partners and cultural organizations, including the President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, FORTUNE/Time Inc. and the Sean Curran Company.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ARTURO VALENZUELA
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Valenzuela delivers remarks at “Shifting the Balance: The Obama Administration and the Americas - A Midterm Assessment,” at the Brookings Institution.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Watch live here.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM DANIEL BENJAMIN
1:00 p.m. Ambassador Benjamin attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen Bosworth
Ambassador Bosworth and Ambassador Sung Kim travel to the Republic of Korea, China and Japan through January 7. For more information, click here.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
9:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby opens the inaugural meeting of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board, at the St. Gregory Hotel in Washington DC.
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SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR CHILDREN'S ISSUES AMBASSADOR SUSAN JACOBS
Ambassador Jacobs travels to Cairo, Egypt and Amman, Jordan through January 11 for meetings on international parental child abduction.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
12:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer speaks at the Global Business Coalition 2011 Inaugural Meeting, in the Rockefeller-Peterson Room at 1777 F Street NW.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
Ambassador Verveer, Assistant Secretary Brimmer and Assistant Secretary Jones co-host an interagency meeting in preparation for the 2011 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
9:15 a.m. Dr. Slaughter joins Secretary Clinton’s meeting with the Assistant Secretaries of the Regional Bureaus, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:15 p.m. Dr. Slaughter and USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg participate in the Conversations with America series to discuss the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Watch live on www.state.gov.
PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE
12:00 noon Daily Press Briefing.
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