DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
Secretary Kerry is on foreign travel to London, United Kingdom. Secretary Kerry is accompanied by Ambassador Marshall and Assistant Secretary Gordon.
8:00 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry meets with UK Prime Minister David Cameron, in London, United Kingdom.
10:05 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry meets with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, in London, United Kingdom.
11:10 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry meets with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and M16 Chief John Sawers, in London, United Kingdom.
1:40 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry holds a joint press availability with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, in London, United Kingdom.
2:40 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry meets with the staff and families of Embassy London, in London, United Kingdom.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman is on foreign travel to Kazakhstan, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia from February 23 to March 4 for official meetings. 

UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
Under Secretary Hormats is on travel through February 27, first in Chicago to discuss “Asia-Pacific: New Priorities for American Economic Diplomacy” with members of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He then travels to Los Angeles for meetings with the Motion Picture Association of America on intellectual property rights and enforcement. Under Secretary Hormats then delivers a speech at the University of California, Los Angeles on the importance of economics as a foreign policy tool and at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on the “U.S. Economy And Asia.”
7:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers remarks at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, at the Chicago Club.
9:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with the Chicago Council’s Agriculture and Food Initiative, at the Chicago Club.
9:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with the Chicago Council’s Energy Initiative, at the Chicago Club.
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Michael Moskow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in Chicago.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine meets with a group of students from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, at the Department of State.
3:30 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine meets with U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell, at the Department of State.
4:45 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine meets with Burmese participants of the State Department’s Professional Fellows on Demand Program, at the Department of State.
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine participates in a chapter screening and panel on “Girl Rising: Educate Girls, Empower the Future” at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER12:00 p.m. Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers opening remarks at the American Physical Society and Center for Strategic and International Studies workshop on nonstrategic nuclear weapons, sponsored in part by the Department of State.

CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
Ambassador Marshall accompanies Secretary Kerry on foreign travel. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton attends a seminar with Ambassador Princeton Lyman discussing “Lessons from a Career Mediator,” at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
1:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Advisor to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Gowher Rizvi, at the Department of State.
2:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake conducts an interview with Lina Rozbih of Voice of America, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
Assistant Secretary Brimmer is on foreign travel to Paris, France to serve as head of delegation and present remarks at the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10) Review.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN1:20 p.m. Assistant Secretary Countryman attends a meeting with industry representatives to discuss the Arms Trade Treaty, in Arlington, VA.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
Assistant Secretary Fernandez is on foreign travel to Burma through February 27 to meet with government officials about enhancing economic ties. He also delivers the keynote address at a business symposium jointly hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS PHILIP GORDON
Assistant Secretary Gordon accompanies Secretary Kerry on foreign travel.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
Assistant Secretary Hammer accompanies Under Secretary Sherman on foreign travel to Almaty, Kazakhstan for the P5+1 talks with Iran. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera, at the Department of State
3:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Colombian Minister of the Interior Fernando Carrillo, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in an interagency meeting on global health, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
1:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends lunch with a delegation of American media law experts, government officials and journalists from Burma, at the Department of State.