| 2007November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | JanuaryNovember --11/15/07 Merida Initiative; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Committee On Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --11/15/07 The Merida Initiative; David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Testimony Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate; Washington, DC --11/14/07 Merida Initiative; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --11/14/07 U.S.-Greece Relations and Regional Issues; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Testimony on U.S.-Greek Relations Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe; Washington, DC --11/13/07 International Climate Change Negotiations; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs; Oral Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --11/13/07 International Climate Change Negotiations; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs; Written Testimony Submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --11/07/07 Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistan; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Opening Statement Before House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC --11/06/07 Human Rights Concerns in Vietnam; Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement before Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --11/05/07 Twenty-First Century Security in the OSCE Region; David J. Kramer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Testimony Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; Washington, DC October --10/31/07 Trafficking in China; Mark P. Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing; Washington, DC --10/30/07 Nominee to be Under Secretary of State for Management; Patrick F. Kennedy, Nominee for Under Secretary of State for Management; Opening Statement Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --10/30/07 Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations: Learning from the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Experience; John E. Herbst, Coordinator for Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization; Statement Before House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; Washington, DC --10/25/07 The State Department and the Iraq War; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Opening Remarks Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Washington, DC --10/24/07 Testimony: Exploring the U.S. Role in Consolidating Peace and Democracy in the Great Lakes Region; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs ; Washington, DC --10/24/07 U.S. Policy in the Middle East; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC --10/04/07 Counternarcotics Strategy and Police Training in Afghanistan [As delivered]; Thomas A. Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee; Washington, DC --10/04/07 Counternarcotics Strategy and Police Training in Afghanistan [As prepared]; Thomas A. Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee; Washington, DC --10/03/07 America's Role in Addressing Outstanding Holocaust Issues [As delivered]; J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues; Testimony Before House Foreign Affairs Committee European Subcommittee; Washington, DC --10/03/07 America's Role in Addressing Outstanding Holocaust Issues [As prepared]; J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues; Testimony Before House Foreign Affairs Committee European Subcommittee; Washington, DC --10/03/07 Burma’s Saffron Revolution; Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Senate Foreign Relations Committe --10/03/07 Testimony on Darfur before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Testimony on Darfur before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Washington, DC --10/02/07 Hearing on Private Security Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Ambassador David M. Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq; Statement Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Washington, DC --10/02/07 Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Ethiopia and the State of Democracy; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Africa and Global Health Subcommittee Hearing; Washington, DC September --09/27/07 The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Written Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --09/26/07 President's FY 2008 Supplemental Request for the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Statement for the Record on Blackwater Before the Senate Appropriations Committee; Washington, DC --09/20/07 U.S. Assistance in East Asia and the Pacific: An Overview; Glyn Davies, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement before Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment; House Committee on Foreign Affairs --09/10/07 Report to U.S. House of Representatives on the Situation in Iraq: Ambassador Crocker; Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq; Joint Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services; Washington, DC --09/10/07 Report to U.S. House of Representatives on the Situation in Iraq: General Petraeus; General David H. Petraeus, Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq; Joint Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services; Washington, DC August --08/01/07 Exploring the U.S. Africa Command and a New Strategic Relationship with Africa; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa; Washington, DC --08/01/07 The Impact of Coup-Related Sanctions on Thailand and Fiji: Helpful or Harmful to U.S. Relations?; Glyn T. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement before House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment; Washington, DC July --07/31/07 Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation Challenges; Dr. Andrew Semmel, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and Negotiations; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --07/26/07 Exports Controls: Are We Protecting Security and Facilitating Exports?; Stephen D. Mull, Acting Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade; Washington, DC --07/26/07 Testimony on the Construction Workers Camp at the New Embassy Compound (NEC), Baghdad; House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign affairs; Washington, DC --07/25/07 An Overview of the Compact of Free Association Between the U.S. and the Republic of the Marshall Islands: Are Changes Needed? ; C. Steven McGann, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washigton, DC --07/25/07 Statement on U.S.-Pakistan Relations; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Statement Before the Senate Committee On Foreign Relations ; Washington, DC --07/24/07 Confirmation Hearing; Henrietta Holsman Fore , Acting Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Acting Administrator of USAID; Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --07/24/07 Deportees in Latin America and the Caribbean; Charles S. Shapiro, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony Before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Committee on International Relations; U.S. House of Representatives --07/17/07 Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa; Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs; Washington, DC --07/12/07 U.S. and Pakistan Relations and Cooperation: Key to Regional Stability; Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --07/11/07 Hearing on: “The Kyoto Protocol: An Update”; Dr. Harlan L. Watson, Senior Climate Negotiator and Special Representative; Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, United States House of Representatives ; Washington, DC PDF version June --06/22/07 The Future of NATO: How Valuable an Asset?”; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --06/21/07 Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Remarks before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --06/13/07 The United States-South Korea FTA: The Foreign Policy Implications; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, ; Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade --06/12/07 Hearing on Foreign Assistance Reform; Henrietta H. Fore, Acting U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and Acting Administrator of USAID; Testimony before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --06/12/07 President’s Nominee to be the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs; Reuben Jeffery III, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; Washington, DC --06/07/07 Nigeria at a Crossroads: Elections, Legitimacy and a Way Forward; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health; Washington, DC --06/06/07 U.S. Policy Challenges in North Africa; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC May --05/24/07 Russia: In Transition or Intransigent?; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Testimony Before the Helsinki Commission; Washington, DC --05/22/07 Nominee to be Ambassador to Malaysia; James R. Keith, Ambassador-Designate To Malaysia ; Statement to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ; Washington, DC --05/22/07 Nominee to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste; Hans G. Klemm, Ambassador-Designate to The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste; Statement before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --05/22/07 Nominee to be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia; Miriam K. Hughes, Ambassador Designate to Micronesia ; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; Washington, DC --05/22/07 Nominee to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia; Cameron Hume, Ambassador-Designate to Indonesia; Statement to the U.S. Senate Committee On Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --05/21/07 Africa's Water Crises and the U.S. Response; Claudia McMurray, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Testimony Before the Foreign Affair's Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health House of Representatives; Washington, DC --05/10/07 Resources for Transformational Diplomacy; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations; Washington, DC --05/09/07 U.S. Efforts To End Modern-Day Slavery; Mark P. Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --05/03/07 Do the United States and Europe Need a Missile Defense System?; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade; Washington, DC --05/01/07 Review of the State Department’s 2006 Country Reports; Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; Written Submission for the Record to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight; Washington, DC --05/01/07 The Future of Political, Economic and Security Relations with China; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC April --04/24/07 Counternarcotics Strategy in Colombia; Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary for Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; Washington, DC --04/24/07 President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator ; Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --04/24/07 Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Mark Dybul, Ambassador, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator ; Washington, DC --04/24/07 U.S. - Colombia Relations; Charles S. Shapiro, Acting Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; Washington, DC --04/19/07 Testimony Before the House Committee on Appropriations ; Karen P. Hughes, Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; Washington, DC --04/17/07 The Outlook for the Independence of Kosovo; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of Political Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --04/11/07 Darfur: A "Plan B" to Stop Genocide?; Andrew S. Natsios, President’s Special Envoy to Sudan; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --04/11/07 Opening Statement on Sudan Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Andrew Natsios, Special Envoy To Sudan; Washington, DC March --03/29/07 United States Policy Toward Iran; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --03/28/07 Testimony on FY 2008 Foreign Assistance Budget ; Randall L. Tobias, U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and Administrator of USAID; Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Washington, DC --03/27/07 Statement on the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget for International Organizations and Peacekeeping; Kristen Silverberg, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs; Statement before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Washington, DC --03/27/07 U.S.-China Relations; Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment; Washington, DC --03/26/07 Iraqi Volunteers; Iraqi Refugees: What Is America's Obligation?; Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration; Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia; Washington, DC --03/22/07 Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Washington, DC --03/21/07 International Affairs FY 2008 Budget; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Washington, DC --03/21/07 U.S. Policy Toward Iran; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Washington, DC --03/20/07 Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Chad and the CAR: The Regional Impact of the Darfur Crisis; James Swan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Washington, DC --03/15/07 U.S. Policy Toward South Pacific Island Nations, including Australia and New Zealand; Glyn Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --03/15/07 U.S.-Turkish Relations and the Challenges Ahead; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe ; Washington, DC --03/15/07 U.S.-Turkish Relations and the Challenges Ahead ; General Joseph Ralston (USAF, retired), Special Envoy Countering the Kurdistan Worker's Party ; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe; Washington, DC --03/14/07 Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines: Strategies to End the Violence; Eric G. John, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC --03/13/07 The Status of Negotiations Between the Dalai Lama’s Representatives and the Chinese Government; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs and Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues; Statement Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC --03/06/07 United States Policy Toward Iran; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC --03/01/07 Vision and Foreign Assistance Priorities for the Western Hemisphere; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony Before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC February --02/28/07 North Korea and the Current Status of Six-Party Agreement; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC --02/08/07 International Affairs Budget for FY 2008; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --02/08/07 Testimony on Sudan Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Andrew Natsios, President's Special Envoy to Sudan; Washington, DC --02/07/07 International Relations Budget for Fiscal Year 2008; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC --02/06/07 Testimony on Somalia Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa ; Dr. Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa on Somalia; Washington, DC --02/02/07 The State of U.S.-China Diplomacy; Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Remarks Before the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission (delivered by John Norris, Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs on Mr. Christensen's behalf); Washington, DC January --01/11/07 Iraq: A New Way Forward; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC --01/11/07 Annual Threat Assessment and U.S. National Security Challenges; John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence; Statement for the Record to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Washington, DC | ||||||||||||||||||||