DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM/PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
9:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry attends the State of the Union speech, at the U.S. Capitol.

DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
9:45 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador Peter Woolcott, President-designate, UN Conference on Disarmament, at the Department of State.
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the U.S., at the Department of State.
11:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Ambassador to Italy David Thorne, at the Department of State.

DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES8:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Islamabad and USAID.
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Baghdad.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman leads the U.S. delegation to the Libya Ministerial Meeting, in Paris, France.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers a speech on Burma and a readout on his recent trip to India with the U.S.-India Business Council, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
2:15 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with John Chambers, Cisco CEO, at the Department of State.
3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with David Quam, Director of Federal Relations Office of the National Governors Association, at the Department of State.
4:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITTI) Reception, at the Department of State.
7:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a dinner with Bruce Mehlman, Tech CEO Council, as well as other CEOs from the Tech CEO Council, in Washington, DC.

UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
10:15 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine delivers remarks to 100 Youth Exchange and Study (YES) and 15 American, Serbian and Montenegrin Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE) international students attending a Civic Education Workshop, at the Department of State.
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks titled, “Forging Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the NPT” at the Institute for National Security Studies’ Conference: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime at a Crossroads, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall accompanies the Diplomatic Corps to President Obama’s State of the Union address, at the U.S. Capitol Building.


ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation, at the Department of State.
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with Ambassador David Johnson at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer meets with U.S. Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform Ambassador Joseph Torsella, at the Department of State.
1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer hosts an interagency roundtable with the UNSC Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON6:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES )
9:15 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones leads the U.S. Delegation at the U.S. – European Union’s Science and Technology Joint Consultative Group Meeting, at the Department of State.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including human rights and democracy promotion.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with staffers from the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on Capitol Hill.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. 

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY10:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Kesete-Berhan Admasu, at the Department of State.