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HighlightsMonday, August 2, 2004 

U.S. Business Internship Program for Young Middle Eastern Women
Secretary Powell (August 2): "...through [the]...Middle East Partnership Initiative, the United States is putting our support behind programs that prepare young people for a new world, a new world that we're helping to create in that part of our world, a new world based more and more on democracy and freedom and reform and modernization." [full text]

Iraq
Secretary Powell (July 30): "The Iraqi people deserve freedom. They deserve democracy. They want freedom. They want democracy. And we must not let outsiders or insiders of any kind deny the Iraqi people that which they richly deserve and that which they want." [full text]

Secretary Powell touring the Abu Shouk Camp in Darfur, Sudan. [State Department photo]Sudan
Deputy Spokesman Ereli (July 30): "...the onus lies on the Government of Sudan. And I think the judgment of the international community will be very, very harsh if, having been given this opportunity, a second opportunity to fulfill commitments, they don't act on it." [full text; more on Sudan]

Afghan Minister of Interior Ali Jalali, U.S. Ambassador and Special Presidential Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, and Governor of Ghazni, Assadullah Khaled at ribbon-cutting. [Photo courtesy of U.S. Embassy, Kabul] Afghanistan
July 29 marked the official completion and opening of two important roads in the City of Ghazni -- the Kandahar Bus Station Road and the newly resurfaced Hospital Road. [more]
In Other News
Secretary Powell visited Hungary, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Poland, July 26 to August 1.

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a global effort that aims to stop shipments of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their delivery systems, and related materials worldwide.

New Background Notes have been posted for Belarus, Czech Republic, and Luxembourg.


The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released a fact sheet on how to recognize trafficking victims, including visible indicators, health characteristics, and signs that a person is being held.

A recently released USAID report, "A Year in Iraq," states that $3.3 billion in U.S. aid fixed schools, vaccinated millions of children, restored electricity and created Iraq’s first democratic councils.


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