DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
10:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry delivers remarks at the Georgetown University Symposium “Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in Afghanistan” co-hosted by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Former First Lady Laura Bush, at Georgetown University. 
2:30 p.m. Secretary Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende, at the Department of State.

DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns presents the 2012 Human Rights Defenders Award to Hanadi Zahlout, at the Department of State.

USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJ SHAH
10:00 a.m. Administrator Shah delivers remarks at the Georgetown University Symposium “Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in Afghanistan” co-hosted by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Former First Lady Laura Bush, at Georgetown University. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton participates in the InterAction partnership, with the German Public Policy Institute-hosted conference, as part of a collaborative project titled “Security and Development: A transatlantic Civil Society Dialogue,” at USAID.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
Assistant Secretary Jones is in on foreign travel to Ireland and Northern Ireland, UK, from November 13 through 16, to participate in University College Dublin’s Earth Gathering program and to consult on implementation of the U.S.-Ireland Research and Development Partnership as well as meet with senior government officials.
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones visits a R&D Partnership Project followed by a roundtable with engineering students, at Queens’s University, in Belfast.
11:00 a.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones meets with Minister of Employment and Learning Stephen Farry, in Belfast.
3:30 p.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones visits a Research and Development Partnership project at Trinity College, in Dublin.
6:00 p.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones attends the final Earth Gathering reception, in Dublin.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
Assistant Secretary Richard delivers closing remarks at the International Conference on Family Planning, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS EVAN RYAN
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Ryan attends the Georgetown University Symposium “Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in Afghanistan” co-hosted by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Former First Lady Laura Bush, at Georgetown University.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS DANIEL RUSSEL
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Russel co-chairs the U.S.-Mongolia Bilateral Consultations with Mongolian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs D. Gankhuyag, at the Department of State.

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR UZRA ZEYA
10:00 a.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya participates in the 2012 Human Rights Defenders Award Ceremony for Hanadi Zahlout, at the Department of State. 
11:00 a.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya meets with the United Kingdom Minister of State for Faith and Community Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, at the Department of State.
1:00 p.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya attends a meeting on Civil Society Strategy, at the White House.