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 U.S.-European Relations
Secretary Rice (Feb. 8): "Our charge is clear: We on the right side of freedom's divide have an obligation to help those unlucky enough to have been born on the wrong side of that divide." [full text]
Peace in the Middle East
Secretary Rice (Feb. 7): "This is a time of hope, a time when we can hope for a better day for the Palestinian and the Israeli people both. As we move forward, I would like to underscore to everyone what I know that President Bush's commitment is, and that is to pursing and achieving the vision of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace." [full text] [Fact Sheet on U.S. Assistance to the Palestinians]
Travel to Europe and the Middle East
Secretary Rice is traveling to eight European countries, as well as Israel and the West Bank.
Fiscal Year 2006 Performance Summary
The FY 2006 Performance Summary presents plans to accomplish policy and program performance goals. It is designed to be consistent with the FY 2006 budget request . Fact Sheet on the President’s FY 2006 International Affairs Budget.
 Celebrating Black History Month
Fannie L. Allen is Chief of the Grants Division in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She joined the foreign affairs community in the early 1980s and has traveled to approximately 30 countries in the course of her work. [more]
Learn more about careers at the Department of State at www.careers.state.gov/ including registration for the April 23 Foreign Service Written Exam (FSWE). Deadlines for registration for the FSWE are March 23 for U.S. test sites and March 16 for overseas test sites.
| | |  | |  Ambassador John F. Maisto's briefing at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian on on the Inter-American "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples".
The U.S. Government is committed to relief and rebuilding efforts in tsunami-affected areas of South Asia. The most effective way people can help is by continuing to make cash contributions to humanitarian organizations that are conducting relief operations.
| | A fact sheet was released by the Bureau of Public Affairs on the initial results of the Iraqi elections that details voting highlights, continued assistance, and what's next.
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