United States Department of State
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks meeting with junta chief...instead of simply applying sanctions. Earlier this month, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and another State Department official made the highest-level visit to Myanmar in 14 years. At a meeting with Asian leaders last week... In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nyan Win, Myanmar, Than Shwe, United States, Democracy, National League for Democracy, Kurt Campbell, and State Department |
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Seattle Times | November 04, 2009
US officials meet with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar
...Kyi in Myanmar A U.S. State Department official met with Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday in a visit that marked the highest-level talks between an American diplomat and Myanmar's detained opposition leader in 14 years. Assistant Secretary...
In this article: Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, United States, Washington, U.S. State Department, Yangon, and National League for Democracy
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 04, 2009
US officials meet Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
...Maung Win) YANGON, Myanmar A U.S. State Department official met Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday in a visit that marked the highest-ranking talks between an American and Myanmar's detained opposition leader in 14 years. Assistant...
In this article: Burma, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Yangon, Washington, U.S. State Department, and National League for Democracy
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 04, 2009
Top U.S. envoy meets with Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi
...the highest-level Americans to visit Myanmar since 1995. Earlier Wednesday, Campbell, the top State Department official for East Asia, greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his lakeside hotel in Yangon where they met...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, State Department, Thein Sein, Yangon, Democracy, and North Korea
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washingtonpost.com | November 07, 2009
Jim Hoagland on the dangers of reaching out to Iran and Syria
...of how its brand of engagement can and should work. Kurt Campbell, the State Department's top Asia official, traveled to the isolated military dictatorship to talk with its corrupt junta. But Campbell also insisted on having a highly visible...
In this article: Iran, United States, Syria, Kurt Campbell, Uranium, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Khamenei, George W. Bush, and Tehran
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World Digest: U.S. reopens engagement with Burma
...ethnic minorities His visit comes after a nine-month policy review in which the State Department concluded that a decade of isolation had yielded little, although it does not intend to lift sanctions at this time. Suu Kyi has backed the...
In this article: Radovan Karadzic, Plutonium, Amos Yadlin, Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, London, State Department, and United States
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Politics Digest: U.S. officials traveling to Burma
Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and Scot Marciel, a deputy assistant secretary, are scheduled to visit Burma on Nov. 3 and 4, the State Department announced Friday. A State...
In this article: Gavin Newsom, Burma, U.S., Eric H. Holder Jr., State Department, California, and Aung San Suu Kyi
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The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, similar to foreign ministries, foreign offices, ministries of external relations, etc. in other countries. It is administered by the Secretary of State.
It is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building at 2201 C Street, N.W., a few blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Department's Secretary is the first Cabinet member in the line of succession in the event of the disability or death of the President, and is fourth after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- Name:
- Department of State
- Headquarters:
- Harry S Truman Building
- Founding Date:
- July 27, 1789
- No. of Employees:
- 30,266 (2004)
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