DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
Secretary Kerry is on foreign travel to Brussels, Belgium. Secretary Kerry is accompanied by Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland, Spokesperson Jen Psaki, NSS Senior Director for European Affairs Karen Donfried, and Vice Admiral Kurt Tidd, JCS.
11:30 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze, in Brussels, Belgium.
1:30 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Brussels, Belgium.
2:00 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry participates in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Session I, in Brussels, Belgium.
4:15 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry participates in the U.S.-Estonia Cyber Partnership Statement Signing Ceremony with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, in Brussels, Belgium.
4:30 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry participates in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Session II, in Brussels, Belgium.
7:00 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry holds a solo press availability, in Brussels, Belgium.
7:30 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Kerry participates in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Dinner, in Brussels, Belgium.

DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns delivers remarks and presents awards at the 2013 Secretary of State Award Ceremony for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad (SOSA), at the Department of State. 

UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman meets with Minister of Defense of Yemen Muhammad Nasir Ahmad and Minister of Interior of Yemen Major General Ali Ahmed Rasa, at the Department of State.

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller attends the International Security Advisory Board Meeting, at the Department of State.

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS WILLIAM CRAFT
Acting Assistant Secretary Craft is on foreign travel to Bali, Indonesia to participate in the World Trade Organization 9th Ministerial Meeting from November 29 through December 7 as part of a delegation led by United States Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS NISHA DESAI BISWAL
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Biswal briefs press from South and Central Asia at the Foreign Press Center, in Washington, DC.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a dinner in honor of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the Atlantic Council, in Washington, DC.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones delivers remarks at the Embassy of Sweden hosted conference “The Economics of the Oceans” at the House of Sweden, in Washington, DC.
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones delivers remarks at the North American Stakeholder Groups Consultation in preparation for the 15^th United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF) and United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) at the U.S. Green Building Council, in Washington, DC.
4 00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones attends the commemoration of the 50^th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, DC.
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones attends a dinner hosted by the Embassy of Sweden at the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence, in Washington, DC.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS VICTORIA NULAND 
Assistant Secretary Nuland accompanies Secretary Kerry on foreign travel to Brussels, Belgium.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION ANNE CLAIRE RICHARD
8:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Richard attends a breakfast at the Embassy of Norway hosted by Norwegian Ambassador Kare Aas, in Washington, DC.
9:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Richard delivers remarks at the Ninth Annual Refugee Admissions Workshop, in Washington, DC.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS DANNY RUSSEL
Assistant Secretary Russel accompanies Vice President Biden on travel to Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea.

ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR UZRA ZEYA
3:00 p.m. Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya participates in a meeting, at the White House.

OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE-STEPHEN RAPP
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Ambassador Rapp attends the closing ceremony of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
4:30 p.m. Ambassador Rapp delivers remarks at the 10^th Anniversary of ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Program and the No Safe Haven Initiative, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC.