Department of State
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520
Phone, 202-647-4000. Internet, http://www.state.gov/.
SECRETARY OF STATE Madeleine K. Albright
Chief of Staff Elaine K. Shocas
Executive Assistant Alejandro D. Wolff
Special Assistant to the Secretary Kristie A. Kenney
and Executive Secretary of the Department
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal Deidre A. Davis
Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights
Chief of Protocol Mary Mel French
Chairman, Foreign Service Grievance Thomas J. DiLauro
Board
Civil Service Ombudsman Ted A. Borek
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott
Under Secretary for Political Thomas R. Pickering
Affairs
Under Secretary for Economic, Stuart E. Eizenstat
Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Under Secretary for Arms Control and John D. Holum, Acting
International Security
Under Secretary for Management Bonnie R. Cohen
Under Secretary for Global Affairs Frank E. Loy
Counselor of the Department of State Wendy Sherman
Assistant Secretary for Patrick F. Kennedy
Administration
Assistant Secretary for Consular Mary A. Ryan
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic David G. Carpenter
Security and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions
Chief Financial Officer Bert T. Edwards
Chief Information Officer and Fernando Burbano
Director of the Bureau of Information Resource Management
Director General of the Foreign Edward W. Gnehm, Jr.
Service and Director of Personnel
Medical Director, Department of Cedric E. Dumont
State and the Foreign Service
Executive Secretary, Board of Ted Plosser
the Foreign Service
Director of the Foreign Service Ruth A. Davis
Institute
Assistant Secretary for Population, Julia V. Taft
Refugee, and Migration Affairs
Inspector General Jacquelyn L. Williams-
Bridgers
Director, Policy Planning Staff Morton H. Halperin
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Barbara Larkin
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Harold H. Kott
Human Rights, and Labor
Legal Advisor David R. Andrews
Assistant Secretary for African Susan E. Rice
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for East Asian Stanley O. Roth
and Pacific Affairs
Assistant Secretary for European Marc Grossman
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Western Robert Nolan
Hemisphere Affairs
Permanent Representative of the Victor Marrero
United States of America to the Organization of American States
Assistant Secretary for Near East Martin S. Indyk
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for South Asian Karl F. Inderfurth
Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Economics Alan P. Larson
and Business Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Phyllis E. Oakley
and Research
Assistant Secretary for C. David Welch
International Organization Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Melinda L. Kimble, International Environmental Acting
and Scientific Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Public James Rubin
Affairs and Spokesman for the Department of State
Assistant Secretary for Political- Eric Newsom
Military Bureau
Assistant Secretary for Rand Beers
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
U.S. Coordinator, International Vonya B. McCann
Communications and Information Policy
United States Mission to the United Nations
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799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
United States Representative to the United A. Peter Burleigh, Nations and Representative in the Acting
Security Council
Deputy United States Representative A. Peter Burleigh
to the United Nations
United States Representative for Nancy Soderberg
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations
United States Representative on the Betty E. King
Economic and Social Council
United States Representative for Richard Sklar
U.N. Management and Reform
\1\ A description of the organization and functions of the United Nations can be found under Selected Multilateral Organizations in this book.
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The Department of State advises the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy. As Chief Executive, the President has overall responsibility for the foreign policy of the United States. The Department of State's primary objective in the conduct of foreign relations is to promote the long-range security and well-being of the United States. The Department determines and analyzes the facts relating to American overseas interests, makes recommendations on policy and future action, and takes the necessary steps to carry out established policy. In so doing, the
Department engages in continuous consultations with the American public, the Congress, other U.S. departments and agencies, and foreign governments; negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign nations; speaks for the United States in the United Nations and in more than 50 major international organizations in which the United States participates; and represents the United States at more than 800 international conferences annually.
The Department of State, the senior executive department of the U.S. Government, was established by act of July 27, 1789, as the Department of Foreign Affairs and was renamed Department of State by act of September 15, 1789 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note).
Office of the Secretary
Secretary of State The Secretary of State, the principal foreign policy adviser to the President, is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and supervision of U.S. foreign relations and for the interdepartmental activities of the U.S. Government abroad. The Secretary is the first-ranking member of the Cabinet, is a member of the National Security Council, and is in charge of the operations of the Department, including the Foreign Service. The Office of the Secretary includes the offices of the Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Counselor, Legal Advisor, and Inspector General. Some areas where public purposes are widely applied are detailed below and on the following pages.
By the authority of section 1413 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681-791) the United States Agency for International Development was established as an independent agency of the U.S. Government, and the Director of the agency was placed under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State.
Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs The Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs is principal adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the formulation and conduct of foreign economic policy. Specific areas for which the Under Secretary is responsible include international trade, agriculture, energy, finance, transportation, and relations with developing countries.
Bureau for Arms Control and International Security Affairs The Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs is responsible for integrating and prioritizing the full range of international security, nonproliferation, and arms control issues into the Department's conduct of foreign policy. This includes directing and coordinating arms control policy; nonproliferation policy (including nuclear, chemical, biological, missile, and conventional weapons proliferation); export control policy; and certain foreign assistance programs. The Under Secretary coordinates diplomatic efforts to obtain the agreement of all appropriate countries to the Missile Technology Control Regime and exercises various authorities relating to the imposition of proliferation sanctions as required by U.S. law.
Regional Bureaus
Six Assistant Secretaries direct the activities of the geographic bureaus, which are responsible for our foreign affairs activities throughout the world. These are the Bureaus of African Affairs, European Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Near East Affairs, South Asian Affairs, and Western Hemisphere Affairs.
The regional Assistant Secretaries also serve as Chairmen of Interdepartmental Groups in the National Security Council system. These groups discuss and decide issues that can be settled at the Assistant
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Secretary level, including those arising out of the implementation of National Security Council decisions. They prepare policy papers for consideration by the Council and contingency papers on potential crisis areas for Council review.
Functional Areas
Arms Control The mission of the Arms Control Bureau is to strengthen national security by formulating, advocating, negotiating, and implementing effective arms control and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements. It is also responsible for establishing verification policy, ensuring that verification is a central element of arms control and nonproliferation agreements as they are being formulated and negotiated, assessing compliance of U.S. treaty partners, and monitoring technology developments as they relate to arms control and weapons developments.
Arms Control and Nonproliferation Policy Board A new scientific and policy advisory board on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, the Board reports to the Secretary through the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, who maintains operational authority over the board.
Consular Affairs The Bureau of Consular Affairs, under the direction of the Assistant Secretary, is responsible for the protection and welfare of American citizens and interests abroad; the administration and enforcement of the provisions of the immigration and nationality laws insofar as they concern the Department and Foreign Service; and the issuance of passports and visas and related services.
Approximately 6 million passports a year are issued by the Passport Office of the Bureau, which has a processing center in Portsmouth, NH, and regional agencies in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Honolulu, HI; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Stamford, CT; and Washington, DC.
For further information, visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs website at http://travel.state.gov/.
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