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            <NameColumnValue>Stephen J. Rapp</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Catherine A. Novelli</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Charles H. Rivkin</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Joyce A. Barr</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Steven C. Taylor</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Lydia Muniz</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Anne Patterson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Nisha Desai Biswal</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Roberta S. Jacobson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David McKean</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Robert H. Goldberg</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Deborah L. Birx</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Scott Linick</NameColumnValue>
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          <Footer>[For the Department of State statement of organization, see the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 5.]</Footer>
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        <Header>United States Mission to the United Nations</Header>
        <HeaderParagraph>799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017</HeaderParagraph>
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            <NameColumnValue>Samantha Power</NameColumnValue>
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        <Paragraph MissionStatmentId="20" SortOrder="1">The Department of State advises the President and leads the Nation in foreign policy issues to advance freedom and democracy for the American people and the international community. To this end, the Department compiles research on American overseas interests, disseminates information on foreign policy to the public, negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign nations, and represents the United States in the United Nations and other international organizations and conferences.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Department of State 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).</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Secretary of State</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Secretary of State 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.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Foreign affairs activities worldwide are handled by the geographic bureaus, which include the Bureaus of African Affairs, European and Eurasian Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Near Eastern Affairs, South and Central Asian Affairs, and Western Hemisphere Affairs.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Administration. Phone, 703-875-7000.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/a</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Administration provides support programs and services to Department of State operations worldwide, as well as programs and services to other U.S. Government agencies represented at U.S. Embassies and consulates. These functions include administrative policy, domestic emergency management; management of owned or leased facilities in the United States; procurement, supply, travel, and transportation support; classified pouch, unclassified pouch, and domestic mail distribution; official records, publishing, library, and foreign language interpreting and translating services; and support to the schools abroad that educate dependents of U.S. Government employees assigned to diplomatic and consular missions. Direct services to the public include: authenticating documents used abroad for legal and business purposes; responding to requests under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts; providing the electronic reading room for public reference to State Department records; and determining use of the diplomatic reception rooms of the Harry S. Truman headquarters building in Washington, DC.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Phone, 202-647-6830. Fax, 202-647-1321.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/t/avc/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance is responsible for ensuring and verifying compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments. The Bureau also leads negotiation and implementation efforts with respect to strategic arms control, most recently the new START Treaty and conventional forces in Europe. The Bureau is the principal policy representative to the intelligence community with regard to verification and compliance matters and uses this role to promote, preserve, and enhance key collection and analytic capabilities and to ensure that intelligence verification, compliance, and implementation requirements are met. The Bureau staffs and manages treaty implementation commissions, creates negotiation and implementation policy for agreements and commitments, and develops policy for future arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament arrangements. It also provides secure government-to-government communication linkages with foreign treaty partners. The Bureau is also responsible for preparing verifiability assessments on proposals and agreements, and reporting these to Congress as required. The Bureau also prepares the "President's Annual Report to Congress on Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments," as well as the reports required by the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Budget and Planning.  Phone, 202-647-8515.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/</WebAddress>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services. Phone, 202-647-7490.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/cgfs/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, led by the Chief Financial Officer, integrates strategic planning, budgeting, and performance to secure departmental resources. The Bureau manages all departmental strategic and performance planning; global financial services, including accounting, disbursing, and payroll; issuance of financial statements and oversight of the Department's management control program; coordination of national security resources and remediation of vulnerabilities within the Department's global critical infrastructure; and management of the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services Program.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations. Phone, 202-663-0323.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/g/cso</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations advances U.S. national security by driving integrated, civilian-led efforts to prevent, respond to, and stabilize crises in priority states, setting conditions for long-term peace. The Bureau emphasizes sustainable solutions guided by local dynamics and actors and promotes unity of effort, strategic use of scarce resources, and burden-sharing with international partners.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>More information is available online at the Bureau of Consular Affairs.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.travel.state.gov</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Consular Affairs 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 of State and Foreign Service; the issuance of passports and visas; and related services. Approximately 18 million passports a year are issued by the Bureau's Office of Passport Services at the processing centers in Portsmouth, NH, and Charleston, SC, and the regional agencies in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Aurora, CO; Honolulu, HI; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Norwalk, CT; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; and Washington, DC. In addition, the Bureau helps secure America's borders against entry by terrorists or narcotraffickers, facilitates international adoptions, and supports parents whose children have been abducted abroad.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Counterterrorism</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact CT’s Office of Public Affairs. Phone, 202-647-1845.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/g/ct</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Counterterrorism leads the Department in the U.S. Government's effort to counter terrorism abroad and secure the United States against foreign terrorist threats. To carry out its mission, the Bureau develops and implements counterterrorism strategies, promotes international cooperation on counterterrorism issues, serves as the Department’s key link on counterterrorism to the Department of Homeland Security, focuses efforts to counter violent extremism, and develops international partner counterterrorism capacity.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Phone, 202-647-1337.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) is responsible for developing and implementing U.S. policy on democracy, human rights, labor, religious freedom, monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, and advocating for inclusion of people with disabilities. DRL practices diplomatic engagement and advocacy to protect human rights and strengthen democratic institutions. Working with governments, civil society, and multilateral organizations to support democratic governance and human rights, the Bureau also participates in multi-stakeholder initiatives to encourage multinational corporations to adhere to human rights standards of conduct, including the elimination of child labor. DRL fulfills the USG reporting responsibilities on human rights and democracy, producing the annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," the annual "International Religious Freedom" report, and the "Advancing Freedom and Democracy" report. Providing targeted program assistance through the Human Rights and Democracy Fund and other funding streams, the Bureau works to protect human rights and strengthen democratic institutions around the world. DRL programs help prosecute war criminals, promote religious freedom, support workers’ rights, encourage accountability in governance, as well as facilitate freedom of expression and freedom to access information on the Internet. The Bureau also has a Congressionally-mandated responsibility to ensure that foreign military assistance and training is not provided to gross violators of human rights. DRL leads the Secretary of State’s Task Force on Global Internet Freedom.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Diplomatic Security</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Office of Public Affairs. Phone, 571-345-2502.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/ds</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Diplomatic Security provides a secure environment to promote U.S. interests at home and abroad. The Bureau's mission includes protecting the Secretary of State and other senior Government officials, resident and visiting foreign dignitaries, and foreign missions in the United States; conducting criminal, counterintelligence, and personnel security investigations; ensuring the integrity of international travel documents, sensitive information, classified processing equipment, and management information systems; the physical and technical protection of domestic and overseas facilities of the Department of State; providing professional law enforcement and security training to U.S. and foreign personnel; and a comprehensive, multifaceted overseas security program serving the needs of U.S. missions and resident U.S. citizens and business communities. Through the Office of Foreign Missions, the Bureau regulates the domestic activities of the foreign diplomatic community in the areas of taxation, real property acquisitions, motor vehicle operation, domestic travel, and customs processing.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="291" SortOrder="13">
          <Heading>Economic and Business Affairs</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="433">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. Phone, 202-647-7971. Fax, 202-647-5713.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/e/eeb</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (EB) promotes international trade, investment, economic development, and financial stability on behalf of the American people. EB works to build prosperity and economic security at home and abroad by implementing policy related to the promotion of U.S. trade, investment and exports, international development and reconstruction, intellectual property enforcement, terrorism financing and economic sanctions, international communications and information policy, and aviation and maritime affairs. EB formulates and carries out U.S. foreign economic policy and works to sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="292" SortOrder="14">
          <Heading>Educational and Cultural Affairs</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="434">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Phone, 202-632-6445. Fax, 202-632-2701.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://exchanges.state.gov/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs administers the principal provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (the Fulbright-Hays Act), including U.S. international educational and cultural exchange programs. These programs include the prestigious Fulbright Program for students, scholars, and teachers; the International Visitor Leadership Program, which brings leaders and future leaders from other countries to the United States for consultation with their professional colleagues; and professional, youth, sports, and cultural exchanges. Programs are implemented through cooperative relationships with U.S. nongovernmental organizations that support the Bureau's mission.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="1163" SortOrder="15">
          <Heading>Energy Resources</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="2066">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Energy Resources. Phone, 202-647-3423.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/e/enr</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) leads the State Department in the U.S. Government’s promotion of U.S. and international energy policy. ENR works to ensure that international energy markets are secure and predictable in order to mitigate potential disruptions, while also working with international partners to diversify U.S. energy supplies. The Bureau also seeks to encourage the transformation of United States and world production and consumption of energy to confront the limits of a hydrocarbon-based society and rapid increases in energy demand. ENR works to promote good governance, transparency, and reform of energy sectors globally, which will help broaden energy access, further ensure stable energy supplies, and reduce political instability.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="294" SortOrder="16">
          <Heading>Foreign Service Institute</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="436">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Foreign Service Institute. Phone, 703-302-6729. Fax, 703-302-7227.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State is the Federal Government's primary foreign affairs-related training institution. In addition to the Department of State, the Institute provides training for more than 47 other Government agencies. The Institute has more than 700 courses, including some 70 foreign language courses, ranging in length from 1 day to 2 years. The courses are designed to promote successful performance in each professional assignment, to ease the adjustment to other countries and cultures, and to enhance the leadership and management capabilities of the foreign affairs community.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="295" SortOrder="17">
          <Heading>Information Resource Management</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="437">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Information Resource Management. Phone, 202-647-2977.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/irm/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) provides the Department with the information technology it needs to carry out U.S. diplomacy in the information age. The IRM Bureau is led by the Department's Chief Information Officer. IRM establishes effective information resource management planning and policies; ensures availability of information technology systems and operations, including information technology contingency planning, to support the Department's diplomatic, consular, and management operations; exercises management responsibility to ensure the Department's information resources meet the business requirements of the Department and provide an effective basis for knowledge sharing and collaboration within the Department and with other foreign affairs agencies and partners; exercises delegated approving authority for the Secretary of State for the development and administration of the Department's computer and information security programs and policies.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="296" SortOrder="18">
          <Heading>Inspector General</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="438">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Inspector General. Phone, 202-663-0340.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.oig.state.gov</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts independent audits, inspections, and investigations to promote effective management, accountability, and positive change in the Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), and the foreign affairs community. OIG provides leadership to promote integrity, efficiency, effectiveness, and economy; prevents and detects waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement; identifies vulnerabilities and recommends constructive solutions; offers expert assistance to improve Department and BBG operations; communicates timely, useful information that facilitates decision-making and achieves measurable gains; and keeps the Department, BBG, and Congress informed.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="297" SortOrder="19">
          <Heading>Intelligence and Research</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="439">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Phone, 202-647-1080.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/s/inr</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The primary mission of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is to harness intelligence to serve U.S. diplomacy. Drawing on all-source intelligence, INR provides value-added independent analysis of events to Department policymakers, ensures that intelligence activities support foreign policy and national security purposes, and serves as the focal point in the Department for ensuring policy review of sensitive counterintelligence and law enforcement activities. The Bureau also analyzes geographical and international boundary issues. INR is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and serves as the Community’s Executive Agent for Analytical Outreach.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="298" SortOrder="20">
          <Heading>International Information Programs</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="440">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of International Information Programs. Phone, 202-632-9942. Fax, 202-632-9901.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/r/iip/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) informs, engages, and influences international audiences about U.S. policy and society to advance America's interests. IIP is a leader in developing and implementing public diplomacy strategies that measurably influence international audiences through quality programs and cutting-edge technologies. IIP provides localized contact for U.S. policies and messages, reaching millions worldwide in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. IIP delivers America's message to the world through a number of key products and services. These programs reach, and are created strictly for, key international audiences, such as U.S. diplomatic missions abroad, the media, government officials, opinion leaders, and the general public in more than 140 countries around the world. They include Web and print publications, in-person and telecommunications-based speaker programs, and information resource services. IIP orchestrates the State Department's efforts to counter anti-American disinformation/propaganda and serves as the Department's chief link with other agencies in coordinating international public diplomacy programs.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="299" SortOrder="21">
          <Heading>International Narcotics and Law Enforcement</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="441">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Phone, 202-647-2842. Fax, 202-736-4045.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/j/inl</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is responsible for developing policies and managing programs to combat and counter international narcotics production and trafficking, and for strengthening law enforcement and other rule of law institutional capabilities outside the United States. The Bureau also directs narcotics control coordinators at posts abroad and provides guidance on narcotics control, justice sector reform, and anticrime matters to the chiefs of missions. It supports the development of strong, sustainable criminal justice systems as well as training for police force and judicial officials. INL works closely with a broad range of other U.S. Government agencies.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="300" SortOrder="22">
          <Heading>International Organizations</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="442">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Phone, 202-647-9600. Fax, 202-647-2175.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/p/io/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of International Organization Affairs provides guidance and support for U.S. participation in international organizations and conferences and formulates and implements U.S. policy toward international organizations, with particular emphasis on those organizations which make up the United Nations system. It provides direction in the development, coordination, and implementation of U.S. multilateral policy.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>International Security and Nonproliferation</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Phone, 202-647-9868. Fax, 202-736-4863.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/t/isn</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), is responsible for managing a broad range of nonproliferation, counterproliferation, and arms control functions. ISN leads U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological weapons) related materials, and their delivery systems. It is responsible for spearheading efforts to promote international consensus on weapons of mass destruction proliferation through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy; addressing weapons of mass destruction proliferation threats posed by nonstate actors and terrorist groups by improving physical security, using interdiction and sanctions, and actively participating in the Proliferation Security Initiative; coordinating the implementation of key international treaties and arrangements, working to make them relevant to today's security challenges; working closely with the U.N., the G-8, NATO, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other international institutions and organizations to reduce and eliminate the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction; and supporting efforts of foreign partners to prevent, protect against, and respond to the threat or use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Legal Adviser</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of the Legal Adviser. Phone, 202-647-9598. Fax, 202-647-7096.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/s/l/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of the Legal Adviser advises the Secretary of State and other Department officials on all domestic and international legal matters relating to the Department of State, Foreign Service, and diplomatic and consular posts abroad. The Office's lawyers draft, negotiate, and interpret treaties, international agreements, domestic statutes, departmental regulations, Executive orders, and other legal documents; provide guidance on international and domestic law; represent the United States in international organization, negotiation, and treaty commission meetings; work on domestic and foreign litigation affecting the Department's interests; and represent the United States before international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="304" SortOrder="25">
          <Heading>Legislative Affairs</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="447">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Phone, 202-647-1714.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/s/h/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Legislative Affairs coordinates legislative activity for the Department of State and advises the Secretary, the Deputy, as well as the Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries on legislative strategy. The Bureau facilitates effective communication between State Department officials and the Members of Congress and their staffs. Legislative Affairs works closely with the authorizing, appropriations, and oversight committees of the House and Senate, as well as with individual Members that have an interest in State Department or foreign policy issues. The Bureau also manages Department testimony before House and Senate hearings, organizes Member and staff briefings, facilitates congressional travel to overseas posts for Members and staff throughout the year, reviews proposed legislation, and coordinates Statements of Administration Policy on legislation affecting the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The Legislative Affairs staff advises individual Bureaus of the Department on legislative and outreach strategies and coordinates those strategies with the Secretary's priorities.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="305" SortOrder="26">
          <Heading>Medical Services</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="448">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Medical Services. Phone, 202-663-1649. Fax, 202-663-1613.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/m/med</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Medical Services (MED) develops, manages, and staffs a worldwide primary health care system for U.S. Government employees and their eligible dependents residing overseas. In support of its overseas operations, MED approves and monitors the medical evacuation of patients, conducts pre-employment and in-service physical clearance examinations, and provides clinical referral and advisory services. MED also provides for emergency medical response in the event of a crisis at an overseas post.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="306" SortOrder="27">
          <Heading>Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Phone, 202-647-6961. Fax, 202-647-0217.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/e/oes/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) serves as the foreign policy focal point for international oceans, as well as environmental and scientific efforts. OES projects, protects, and promotes U.S. global interests in these areas by articulating U.S. foreign policy, encouraging international cooperation, and negotiating treaties and other instruments of international law. The Bureau serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of State on international environment, science, and technology matters and takes the lead in coordinating and brokering diverse interests in the interagency process, where the development of international policies or the negotiation and implementation of relevant international agreements are concerned. The Bureau seeks to promote the peaceful exploitation of outer space, develop and coordinate policy on international health issues, encourage government-to-government scientific cooperation, and prevent the destruction and degradation of the planet's natural resources and the global environment.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="307" SortOrder="28">
          <Heading>Overseas Buildings Operations</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="451">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Phone, 703-875-4131. Fax, 703-875-5043.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/obo</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas buildings program for the Department of State and the U.S. Government community serving abroad under the authority of the chiefs of mission. Along with the input and support of other State Department bureaus, foreign affairs agencies, and Congress, OBO sets worldwide priorities for the design, construction, acquisition, maintenance, use, and sale of real properties and the use of sales proceeds. OBO also serves as the Single Real Property Manager of all overseas facilities under the authority of the chiefs of mission.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="308" SortOrder="29">
          <Heading>Political-Military Affairs</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="452">
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Phone, 202-647-9022. Fax, 202-736-4413.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/t/pm</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is the principal link between the Departments of State and Defense and is the Department of State's lead on operational military matters. The Bureau provides policy direction in the areas of international security, security assistance, military operations, defense strategy and policy, counterpiracy measures, and defense trade. Its responsibilities include coordinating the U.S. Government’s response to piracy in the waters off the Horn of Africa, securing base access to support the deployment of U.S. military forces overseas, negotiating status of forces agreements, coordinating participation in coalition combat and stabilization forces, regulating arms transfers, directing military assistance to U.S. allies, combating illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons, facilitating the education and training of international peacekeepers and foreign military personnel, managing humanitarian mine action programs, and assisting other countries in reducing the availability of man-portable air defense systems.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="310" SortOrder="30">
          <Heading>Population, Refugees, and Migration</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Phone, 202-453-9339. Fax, 202-453-9394.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/g/prm</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration directs the Department's population, refugee, and migration policy development. It administers U.S. contributions to international organizations and nongovernmental organizations for humanitarian assistance- and protection-related programs on behalf of refugees, conflict victims, and internally displaced persons. The Bureau oversees the annual admissions of refugees to the United States for permanent resettlement, working closely with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, and various State and private voluntary agencies. It coordinates U.S. international population policy and promotes its goals through bilateral and multilateral cooperation. It works closely with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers U.S. international population programs. The Bureau also coordinates the Department's international migration policy through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. The Bureau oversees efforts to encourage greater participation in humanitarian assistance and refugee resettlement on the part of foreign governments and uses humanitarian diplomacy to increase access and assistance to those in need in the absence of political solutions.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="311" SortOrder="31">
          <Heading>Public Affairs</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Public Affairs. Phone, 202-647-6575.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/r/pa</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Public Affairs (PA) supports U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advances national interests, and enhances National security by informing and influencing domestic and global public opinion about American interaction with the rest of the world. In addition, PA works to help Americans understand the importance of foreign affairs by conducting press briefings for the domestic and foreign press, pursuing media outreach by other means, arranging townhall meetings and community speakers, and preparing historical studies on U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs matters.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="312" SortOrder="32">
          <Heading>Protocol</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Phone, 202-647-1735. Fax, 202-647-1560.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Chief of Protocol is the principal adviser to the U.S. Government, the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State on matters of diplomatic procedure governed by law or international custom and practice. The Office is responsible for arranging visits of foreign chiefs of state, heads of government, and other high officials to the United States; organizing credential presentations of newly arrived Ambassadors, as presented to the President and to the Secretary of State; operating the President's guest house, Blair House; organizing delegations representing the President at official ceremonies abroad; conducting official ceremonial functions and public events; interpreting the official order of precedence; conducting outreach programs of cultural enrichment and substantive briefings of the Diplomatic Corps; accrediting of over 118,000 embassy, consular, international organization, and other foreign government personnel, members of their families, and domestics throughout the United States; determining entitlement to diplomatic or consular immunity; publishing of diplomatic and consular lists; resolving problems arising out of diplomatic or consular immunity, such as legal and police matters; and approving the opening of embassy and consular offices in conjunction with the Office of Foreign Missions.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Foreign Service</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>To a great extent the future of our country depends on the relations we have with other countries, and those relations are conducted principally by the U.S. Foreign Service. Trained representatives stationed worldwide provide the President and the Secretary of State with much of the raw material from which foreign policy is made and with the recommendations that help shape it.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Ambassadors are the personal representatives of the President and report to the President through the Secretary of State. Ambassadors have full responsibility for implementation of U.S. foreign policy by any and all U.S. Government personnel within their country of assignment, except those under military commands. Their responsibilities include negotiating agreements between the United States and the host country, explaining and disseminating official U.S. policy, and maintaining cordial relations with that country's government and people.</Paragraph>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.usembassy.gov/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>For a complete listing of Foreign Service posts, including addresses, telephone numbers, and key officials, use the link below.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation. Phone, 202-647-5315. Fax, 202-647-1321.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation is responsible for ensuring and verifying compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments. The Bureau also leads negotiation and implementation efforts with respect to strategic arms control, most recently the new START Treaty, and conventional forces in Europe. The Bureau is the principal policy representative to the intelligence community with regard to verification and compliance matters, and uses this role to promote, preserve, and enhance key collection and analytic capabilities and to ensure that intelligence verification, compliance, and implementation requirements are met. The Bureau staffs and manages treaty implementation commissions, creating negotiation and implementation policy for agreements and commitments, and developing policy for future arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament arrangements. It also provides support to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policymaking, including information technology support and secure government-to-government communication linkages with foreign treaty partners. The Bureau is also responsible for preparing verifiability assessments on proposals and agreements, and reporting these to Congress as required. The Bureau also prepares the President's Annual Report to Congress on Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, as well as the reports required by the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act.</Paragraph>
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        <Paragraph>General inquiries may be directed to the Office of Acquisitions Management (A/LM/AQM), Department of State, P.O. Box 9115, Arlington, VA 22219. Phone, 703-516-1706. Fax, 703-875-6085.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Diplomatic and Official Passports</Header>
        <Paragraph>Inquirers for these types of passports should contact their respective travel offices. The U.S. Government only issues these types of passports to individuals traveling abroad in connection with official employment. Additional information is available online at Consular Affairs.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Electronic Access</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Department's Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, coordinates the online dissemination of public information. The Department's main Web site and the Secretary's Web site (www.state.gov/secretary/) provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on foreign policy, support for U.S. businesses and careers, the counterterrorism rewards program, and much more. The Bureau of Consular Affairs Web site (travel.state.gov) provides travel warnings and other information designed to help Americans travel safely abroad, as well as information on U.S. passports, visas, and downloadable applications. The State Department's Virtual Reading Room (http://foia.state.gov/#0) uses new information technologies to enable access to unique historical records of international significance, which have been made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act or as a special collection.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Employment</Header>
        <Paragraph>Inquiries about employment in the Foreign Service should be directed to HR/REE, Room H-518, 2401 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20522. Phone, 202-261-8888. Information on civil service positions in the Department of State and copies of civil service job announcements can be accessed online. Individual questions may be directed to cspapps@state.gov. Job information staff is also available to answer questions from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern time on Federal workdays. Phone, 202-663-2176.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests</Header>
        <Paragraph>Requests from the public for Department of State records should be addressed to the Director, Office of Information Programs and Services, A/GIS/IPS/RL, Department of State, SA-2, Washington, DC 20522-8100. Additional information is available online at the Virtual Reading Room or by contacting the FOIA Requester Service Center at 202-261-8484.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>International Adoptions</Header>
        <Paragraph>Inquiries regarding adoption of foreign children by private U.S. citizens should be directed to the Office of Children's Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State, SA-29, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520-4818. Phone, 888-407-4747 or 202-501-4444 (international).</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/emergencies.html</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Missing Persons, Emergencies, and Deaths of Americans Abroad</Header>
        <Paragraph>For information concerning missing persons, emergencies, travel warnings, overseas voting, judicial assistance, and arrests or deaths of Americans abroad, contact the Office of American Citizens Services and Crisis Management, Department of State. Phone, 888-407-4747 or 202-501-4444 (international). Correspondence should be directed to this address: Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State, SA-29, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520. Inquiries regarding international parental child abduction should be directed to the Office of Children's Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State, SA-29, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520-4818. Phone, 888-407-4747 or 202-501-4444 (international).</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Passports</Header>
        <Paragraph>Passport information, including where to apply, is available online at the Bureau of Consular Affairs. For passport questions, travel emergencies, or to make an appointment at any regional passport agency, call the National Passport Information Center at 887-4-USA-PPT (887-487-2778) (TDD/TTY: 888-874-7793). Passport information is available 24 hours, 7 days a week; customer service representatives are available weekdays, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., eastern standard time, excluding Federal holidays. Correspondence can be submitted electronically at http://travel.state.gov/passport/about or can be directed to the appropriate regional agency (http://travel.state.gov/passport/) or the Correspondence Branch, Passport Services, Room 510, 1111 Nineteenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20524.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Publications</Header>
        <Paragraph>Publications that are produced on a regular basis include "Background Notes" and the "Foreign Relations" series. The Bureau of Public Affairs also occasionally publishes brochures and other publications to inform the public of U.S. diplomatic efforts.</Paragraph>
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        <Paragraph>Information on doing business with the Department of State is available from the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The publication, "A Guide to Doing Business With the Department of State," the current "Forecast of Contracting Opportunities," and small business links are available online. Phone, 703-875-6822.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Telephone Directory</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Department's telephone directory can be accessed online.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Tips for U.S. Travelers Abroad</Header>
        <Paragraph>Information for Americans on traveling abroad, including a traveler's checklist and tips on destinations, personal safety, health, and other topics, is available online at the Bureau of Consular Affairs.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Visas</Header>
        <Paragraph>For information on visas for foreigners wishing to enter the United States, visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs online or call 202-663-1225.</Paragraph>
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