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![Lebanese opposition protesters wave national flags and one carries a broom with an anti-Syria slogan, during their daily demonstration against Syria in Beirut, Lebanon, March 4, 2005. [AP Photo]](/all/20050306024913im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/lebanon_syrian_140.jpg) Lebanon: Syrian Troop Withdrawal
Secretary Rice (Mar. 4): "...the Syrians need to withdraw their troops, they need to withdraw their security personnel, and they simply need to realize that they don't have any support in the international system any longer to maintain their presence there." [full text]
2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
The 2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2004. Volume I covers drug and chemical control activities. Volume II covers money laundering and financial crimes.
Democracy in the Middle East
Secretary Rice (Mar. 3): "...people in the Middle East...are expressing what I think we always knew, which is that you don't have to impose democracy, you impose tyranny. Democracy and the desire to be free are as natural as breathing." [full text]
 Saluting Women's History Month - Bonnie Gutman
Bonnie Gutman, Deputy Public Affairs Advisor in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, has served in Mexico and Turkey and is a Hometown Diplomat who enjoys encouraging young women and men to join the Foreign and Civil Services of the State Department. [more]
| | |  | |  On February 28, 2005, Under Secretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky held an On-the-Record briefing to announce the release of the 2004 Human Rights Reports. [2004 Human Rights Report]
Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, recently discussed the Administration’s foreign assistance priorities for the Western Hemisphere before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Iran's nuclear program is discussed in a statement to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [more]
| | The transcript from the first in a new series of web chats with Department officials is now available on line. To receive email notification of upcoming web chats, subscribe to DOSCHATS.
The U.S. Government is committed to relief and rebuilding efforts in tsunami-affected areas of South Asia. You can help by making cash contributions to humanitarian organizations conducting relief operations.
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