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

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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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