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Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #5 from the 62nd UNGA
Posted by Kristen Silverberg on Sep 28, 2007 - 11:53 PM

United Nations – Today was another full day of meetings with my counterparts from a number of countries, including Italy, Israel, and Libya. Meanwhile, the Secretary was meeting with the Foreign Ministers of the other permanent members of the Security Council (China, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom), plus Germany and the European Union (referred to as the P5 plus two), to talk about a third sanctions resolution on Iran. Iran continues to defy the international community in its refusal to suspend its nuclear proliferation-related activities, and all participants agreed that a third resolution must be adopted if Iran continues to fail to meet certain conditions.

The permanent five members of the Security Council, plus Germany, will work on the text of a third sanctions resolution across the coming weeks. If reports…

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En Route to Darfur
Posted by Lauren Landis on Sep 28, 2007 - 05:51 PM

A Sudanese boy carries a child at a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan April 20, 2007. [© AP Images]

Lauren Landis is the Sr. Representative, Sudan, Sudan Programs Group.
Lauren's next post: Stop the Fighting in Sudan

Right now, I’m on my way to Darfur (via Dubai and Khartoum) to look at some of the camps the UN peacekeepers will use when they are sent to the region. This is one of the many visits I have made to Sudan – both to Darfur and the South – since I became the Senior Representative on Sudan at the State Department more than a year ago. And each time I come to Darfur, I visit the displacement camps where nearly two and a half…

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Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #4 from the 62nd UNGA
Posted by Kristen Silverberg on Sep 27, 2007 - 09:01 PM

United Nations – What a busy day! I’m exhausted! The Secretary was in Washington opening the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, which brought together countries representing 85 percent of the global economy and 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change. I stayed in New York.

With the situation in Burma weighing heavily on our minds, I used meetings with my Chinese and Indian counterparts to encourage them to support the aspirations of the Burmese people and condemn the violent acts of the Burmese junta. I also met with the Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to discuss their efforts to create change in Burma,…

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Upcoming Blackwater Announcement
Posted by Sean McCormack on Sep 27, 2007 - 07:43 PM

Look tomorrow (9/28) for an announcement naming experts outside of the State Department who will be part of the Washington-based review on personal security contractor operations in Iraq that was announced last week. Secretary Rice decided today, after a meeting with several senior advisors, on the structure of the review. Pat Kennedy will lead a small team to Iraq early next week to begin establishing a baseline set of facts about these contractor operations and provide Secretary Rice with an interim report no liater than next Friday. (Note: Pat has already done a lot of groundwork in Washington since last Friday when the review was announced.) The soon to be announced outside experts will also receive the report. I expect they will also travel to Iraq, either with Pat or separately, to conduct their own ground truth assessment. Meanwhile,…

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Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #3 from the 62nd UNGA
Posted by Kristen Silverberg on Sep 27, 2007 - 02:49 PM

United Nations – Another busy day in New York! First thing this morning, President Bush met with President Karzai to discuss progress in Afghanistan. We have a lot of hope for the future of Afghanistan. There has been a more than twenty percent decrease in child mortality over the last five years, access to basic health care is now available to eighty percent of the public, up from eight percent a few years ago, and primary school enrollment for both boys and girls has increased by five hundred percent over the past five years.

Later in the morning, Secretary Rice attended a meeting with EU Foreign Ministers, during which we issued a joint statement calling on the government of Burma to end violence against the peaceful demonstrators and to open a process of dialogue with pro-democracy leaders. The Security Council…

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