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HighlightsWednesday, August 4, 2004 

People who have been displaced by the fighting and the other hardships now residing at Abu Shouk Camp in Darfur, Sudan.Sudan
Spokesman Boucher (August 3): "...the Sudanese Government has a responsibility to act and to act quickly to stop the depredations of the Jingaweit militias...and they have a responsibility to withdraw all forms of support for the militias." [full text; more on Sudan]

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]

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 will address the UNITY 2004: Journalists of Color Convention on Thursday, August 5, 2004 at 1:30 p.m.

President Bush delivers remarks upon signing the legislation implementing the historic free trade agreement between Australia and the United States.

The U.S.-UK Extradition Treaty seeks to modernize and streamline the extradition relationship between the two States Parties.


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