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Alumni from the State Department’s POWER program pose for a photo with Special Representative or Commercial and Business Affairs Dilawar Syed at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2022.

January 4, 2023

Alumni from the State Department’s POWER program pose for a photo with Special Representative or Commercial and Business Affairs Dilawar Syed at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2022.

U.S. Department of State

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