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Near East Asia Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
1998 Remarks, Testimony, and Briefings

December | November | October | September | August | July |
June | May | April | March | February | January

For More Information


December
12/22/98 Thomas Pickering, interview, "The News Hour" with Jim Lehrer, Washington (UN Debate Over the Situation in Iraq)
12/22/98 David Welch, Worldnet "Global Exchange," Washington (U.S. Policy on Iraq)
12/22/98 Thomas Pickering, press briefing, Washington (Aftermath of Airstrikes on Iraq)
12/20/98 Martin Indyk, CNN Interview, Washington (Iraq)
12/20/98 Secretary Albright, Interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert
12/18/98 Secretary Albright, Interview on CNN's "Early Edition," Washington
12/18/98 Secretary Albright, Interview on NBC's "Today Show," Washington
12/17/98 Secretary Albright, Interview on "Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, Washington
12/17/98 Secretary Albright, Interview on CNN's "World View," Washington
12/17/98 Secretary Albright, Press Remarks on Military Attack on Iraq, Washington
12/16/98 Secretary Albright, CNN Interview with Larry King, Washington
12/16/98 Secretary Albright, Remarks on Air Strikes Against Iraq, Washington
12/14/98 Secretary Albright, Press Briefing, King David Hotel, Jerusalem
12/13/98 Secretary Albright, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Press Briefing, King David Hotel, Jerusalem
12/13/98 Secretary Albright, Interview, CNN Late Edition, Jerusalem
12/11/98 Secretary Albright, Sandy Berger, Press Briefing on President's Upcoming Trip to Middle East, The White House Briefing Room
12/07/98 Secretary Albright, Press availability with Israeli Foreign Minister Sharon, Washington
12/02/98 Stuart Eizenstat, Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, Washington (The Need for Others to Join the International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims)
12/02/98 Stuart Eizenstat, Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, Washington (U.S. Support for the International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims)
12/01/98 Secretary Albright, Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets

November
11/30/98 Secretary Albright, Press Conference, Conclusion of Conference To Support Middle East Peace and Development
11/24/98 Stuart Eizenstat, Briefing, Washington (Holocaust-Era Conference)

October
10/26/98 James Rubin, Daily Press Briefing Excerpt (Middle East Peace Talks)
10/22/98 James Rubin, Read-out to the Press, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Update on Peace Talks)
10/22/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Update on Peace Talks)
10/21/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Update on Peace Talks)
10/20/98 James Rubin, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (More Progress on Middle East Peace Talks)
10/20/98 James Rubin, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Progress on Middle East Peace Talks)
10/20/98 James Rubin, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Update on Peace Talks)
10/19/98 James Rubin, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills (Middle East Peace Talks)
10/17/98 James Rubin, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, Maryland (Middle East Talks and Kosovo)
10/16/98 Thomas Pickering, Middle East Institute (U.S. Policies in the Middle East)
10/16/98 James Rubin, Briefing on Middle East Talks
10/15/98 James Rubin, and Joe Lockhard, Press Briefing at Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, Maryland (Peace Talks)
10/15/98 David Welch, Worldnet Interview (U.S. Brokered Northern Iraq Accord and U.S.-Iraq Relations)
10/14/98 James Rubin, White House Briefing with Senior Administrative Officials (Peace Talks)
10/13/98 James Rubin, Excerpt from Daily Press Briefing (Middle East Peace Talks)
10/06/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing at King David Hotel, Jerusalem (Middle East Peace Process)
10/06/98 Secretary Albright, with Palestinian Authority Chairman Arafat, Jerico
10/06/98 Secretary Albright, with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Jerusalem
10/05/98 Secretary Albright, Remarks on Board Aircraft, en route to Jerusalem

September
09/28/98 Secretary Albright, White House Press Briefing, Middle East Peace Process
09/27/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Waldorf-Astoria, New York (Middle East Peace Process)
09/26/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Secretary Albright's Back-To-Back Meetings with Chairman Arafat and Prime Minister Netanyahu (Middle East Peace Process)
09/23/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Secretary Albright's Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the UN (Middle East Peace Process)
09/23/98 James Rubin,Press Briefing, after Secretary Alblright's UN Meetings
09/27/98 Secretary Albright, with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Arafat following meeting, New York
09/14/98 Stuart Eizenstat, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Issues surrounding Holocaust-era Insurance Claims
09/08/98 Stuart Eizenstat, Senate Lott Bipartisan Task Force (Economic Sanctions)

August
08/24/98 Secretary Albright, Venue for Trail of Pam Am #103 Bombing Suspects
08/17/98 Secretary Albright, Op Ed-- "The U.S. Will Stand Firm on Iraq, No Matter What," Pubication in the New York Times
08/11/98 Secretary Albright, with Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Maher to Members of the African Diplomatic Corps

July
07/29/98 Martin Indyk, House International Relations Committee (Developments in the Middle East)
07/14/98 William Slany, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, House Government Reform and Oversight Committee (Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act--HR 4007)
07/13/98 Secretary Albright, Op Ed--"Humanitarian Support for Iraq," Publication in the International Herald Tribune
07/10/98 Secretary Albright, with His Excellency Amre Mahmoud Moussa, Foreign Minister of Egypt, prior to their meeting

June
06/16/98 Secretary Albright, Prior to meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Haririd
06/02/98 Stuart Eizenstat, Briefing, Release of U.S. and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations With Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and U.S. Concerns About the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury (Nazi Gold Report)

May
05/28/98 James Rubin, with Arab Journalists, India and Pakistan and the Middle East Peace Process
05/27/98 Stuart Eizenstat, State of Israel Bond's lunch
05/21/98 Thomas Pickering, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Iraq
05/21/98 David Scheffer, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Accountability for War Crimes, Iraq
05/18/98 Secretary Albright, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA)--Decision in the South Pars Case
05/14/98 Martin Indyk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Iran
05/12/98 Secretary Albright, National Press Club, Middle East Peace Process
05/06/98 Bruce Riedel, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, U.S. Policy in the Gulf: Five Years of Dual Containment
05/06/98 Secretary Albright, PBS-TV "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"
05/05/98 Secretary Albright, Middle East Peace Process Meetings
05/05/98 Secretary Albright, Press Conference, Middle East Peace Process Meetings

April
No Remarks Available

March
03/23/98 Stuart Eizenstat, United Jewish Appeal National Young Leadership Conference
03/03/98 Thomas Pickering, Iraq and the Security Council Vote
03/02/98 Secretary Albright, Article in Newsweek Magazine, March 2, 1998, "It's Up to Iraq"

February
02/28/98 Thomas Warrick, The Pall of the Past: The Holocaust and Genocide on the Eve of the 21st Century
02/23/98 Secretary Albright, PBS-TV "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"
02/22/98 Secretary Albright, ABC-TV "This Week"
02/19/98 Secretary Albright, en route to Washington, D.C. from South Carolina
02/19/98 Secretary Albright, University of South Carolina
02/19/98 Secretary Albright, Tennessee State University
02/19/98 Secretary Albright, NBC-TV "The Today Show"
02/19/98 Secretary Albright, ABC-TV "Good Morning America"
02/18/98 Secretary Albright, ABC "Nightline"
02/18/98 Secretary Albright, with Defense Secretary Cohen and National Security Advisor Berger, Town Hall Meeting
02/18/98 James Rubin, Ohio State University
02/12/98 Secretary Albright, House International Relations Committee
02/10/98 Secretary Albright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
02/08/98 Secretary Albright, with Bob Schieffer, CBS-TV "Face the Nation"
02/05/98 Ronald Neumann, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee On Africa, Alergia
02/03/98 Secretary Albright, en route to Shannon Airport, Ireland
02/03/98 Secretary Albright, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Moussa
02/03/98 Secretary Albright, with Bahraini Foreign Minister al-Khalifa
02/02/98 Secretary Albright, Press Briefing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
02/01/98 James Rubin, Press Briefing, Jerusalem
02/01/98 Secretary Albright, with Wolf Blitzer, CNN "Late Edition"
02/01/98 Secretary Albright, Press Conference, Jerusalem

January
01/31/98< Secretary Albright, with British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
01/30/98 Secretary Albright, with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov
01/29/98 Secretary Albright, with Ted Koppel, ABC-TV "Nightline"
01/29/98 Secretary Albright, with French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine
01/28/98 Secretary Albright, State of the Union, and Visit to Europe, the Gulf, and the Middle East
01/23/98 Martin Indyk, Foreign Press Center, Middle East Peace Process
01/22/98 Secretary Albright, White House Briefing Room, Middle East Peace Process
01/20/98 Secretary Albright, White House Press Briefing, Middle East Peace Process
01/18/98 Secretary Albright, with Tim Russert, NBC-TV "Meet The Press"
01/15/98 Secretary Albright, with U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in his EU Presidency capacity, and European Commission Vice President Sir Leon Brittan
01/14/98 Secretary Albright, NPR "All Things Considered"
01/11/98 Thomas Pickering,Loyola Marymount University

For More Information:
1995-97 NEA Remarks, Testimony, and Briefings
All Remarks by Secretary Albright
All Remarks by Other Senior State Department Officials
Press Briefings

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