Office of the Spokesman
For Immediate Release July 27, 2009
2009/782
Statement by IAN Kelly, Spokesman
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Travel to Africa
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin a seven-nation trip to Africa on August 5 at the 8th U.S. – Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (known as the AGOA Forum) in Nairobi, Kenya.
This trip will highlight the Obama administration’s commitment to making Africa a priority in U.S. foreign policy. This will be the earliest in any U.S. administration that both the President and the Secretary of State have visited Africa.
While in Kenya, Secretary Clinton will discuss new approaches to development, including an emphasis on investment and broad-based economic growth. The Secretary will be joined in Kenya by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson.
During the visit to Kenya, the Secretary will deliver a speech at the Ministerial Opening Ceremony for the AGOA Forum, participate in bilateral meetings with Kenya’s senior leaders, discuss global hunger and agricultural issues at a major research institute, and engage with Kenyan citizens. She will also meet with Sheikh Sharif Amed, the President of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government.
The Secretary will continue her travel with stops in South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde. In each nation, she will emphasize Africa as a place of opportunity, built on an ethic of responsibility. She will underline America’s commitment to partner with governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and private citizens to build societies where each individual can realize their potential.
In her bilateral meetings and other events, she will encourage new solutions to old challenges, harnessing the power of innovation and technology to provide a foundation for future stability, human development, and sustainable economic growth. She will stress the importance of facilitating social and economic entrepreneurship, encouraging a new generation of young African scientists, small business leaders, entrepreneurs and civic leaders who are solving real problems and establishing new models for economic success and social advances, with women as full partners in this progress. And she will discuss ways to foster good regional governance, partnering with regional leaders to band together to prevent conflict and violence, including gender-based violence, democratic erosions, and transnational threats.
Following her visit to Cape Verde, the Secretary will return to Washington, DC.
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The diaspora is doing well back home.This is J.Pinto who is now running a daily called Jambo LeoECONOMICS & FINANCE- Does the U.S. Economy Need More Stimulus? By Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2009/0710_economy_rivlin.aspx - Fold the G-8 into the G-20 by James M. Roberts, Heritage Foundation, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm2538.cfm - Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Recovery – World Bank – 2009 – web link: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGDF/EXTGDF2009/0,,menuPK:5924239~pagePK:64168427~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:5924232,00.html - Inflation Scare: Crazy But Real by John H. Makin, American Enterprise Institute Outlook Series, July 2009 – web link: http://www.aei.org/outlook/100053 ENERGY- OPEC Oil Export Revenues – Energy Information Administration, July 2009 – web link: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/OPEC_Revenues/Factsheet.html
- Unprecedented Increase in Magnitude of U.S. Natural Gas Resource Base – Potential Gas Agency, June 18, 2009 – web link: http://www.aga.org/NR/rdonlyres/65B2FD7E-A208-4687-9B4B-6EC079DA673D/0/0906PGCPRESS.PDF - Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality by Stephen F. Hayward and Kenneth P. Green, American Enterprise Institute Outlook Series, July 2009 – web link: http://www.aei.org/outlook/100057 ENVIRONMENT- Energy and Climate Change at the G-8 Summit by Sarah O. Ladislaw, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 9, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/energy-and-climate-change-g-8-summit-and-major-economies-forum-energy-and-climate-change - Overcoming the Barriers to the Development and Wide Deployment of Low-Carbon Technology – Center for American Progress, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/gcn_cap_technology_report.html FOREIGN POLICY- The Button and the Bear by Leon Aron, American Enterprise Institute Outlook Series, July 2009 – web link: http://www.aei.org/outlook/100055 - From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening U.S. – Pakistan Relations – Testimony by Lisa Curtis to U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Heritage Foundation, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/tst070809a.cfm - Iran at the Crossroads by Fariborz Ghadar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/iran-crossroads - Iraq and the Kurds: Trouble Along the Trigger Line – Crisis Group, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/iraq_iran_gulf/88_iraq_and_the_kurds___trouble_along_the_trigger_line.pdf - Middle East Notes and Comments: The Whole World is Watching by Jon B. Alterman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 7, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/middle-east-notes-and-comment-whole-world-watching - Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI: Twenty Interviews and Five Conversation with “High Value # 1” in 2004 - National Security Archive, George Washington University, July 1, 2009 – web link: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm- Though Obama Viewed Positively, Still Much Criticism of U.S. Foreign Policy: Global Poll, World Public Opinion.org – July 7, 2009 – web link: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/views_on_countriesregions_bt/623.php?nid=&id=&pnt=623&lb=
- Uighurs and China’s Zinjiang Region by Preeti Bhattacharji, Council on Foreign Relations, July 6, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/16870/understanding_the_uighurs.html?breadcrumb=%2F
HEALTH CARE REFORM- Fork in the Road: Alternative Paths to a Higher Performance U.S. Health System – The Commonwealth Fund, June 24, 2009 – web link: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Jun/Fork-In-the-Road.aspx - The Health Care Disconnect by Darrell M. West, Brookings Institution, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0710_healthcare_west.aspx IMMIGRATION- Broken Immigration System Risks Serious Damage to U.S. National Interests, Warns Council on Foreign Relations Task Force, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19743/broken_immigration_system_risks_serious_damage_to_us_national_interests_warns_cfr_task_force.html - ‘Significant Hurdles’ Remain on Immigration Reform – Interview with Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Immigration Reform, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19752/overhauling_immigration.html?breadcrumb=%2F
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- Unprecedented Increase in Magnitude of U.S. Natural Gas Resource Base – Potential Gas Agency, June 18, 2009 – web link: http://www.aga.org/NR/rdonlyres/65B2FD7E-A208-4687-9B4B-6EC079DA673D/0/0906PGCPRESS.PDF - Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality by Stephen F. Hayward and Kenneth P. Green, American Enterprise Institute Outlook Series, July 2009 – web link: http://www.aei.org/outlook/100057 ENVIRONMENT- Energy and Climate Change at the G-8 Summit by Sarah O. Ladislaw, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 9, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/energy-and-climate-change-g-8-summit-and-major-economies-forum-energy-and-climate-change - Overcoming the Barriers to the Development and Wide Deployment of Low-Carbon Technology – Center for American Progress, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/gcn_cap_technology_report.html FOREIGN POLICY- The Button and the Bear by Leon Aron, American Enterprise Institute Outlook Series, July 2009 – web link: http://www.aei.org/outlook/100055 - From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening U.S. – Pakistan Relations – Testimony by Lisa Curtis to U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Heritage Foundation, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/tst070809a.cfm - Iran at the Crossroads by Fariborz Ghadar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/iran-crossroads - Iraq and the Kurds: Trouble Along the Trigger Line – Crisis Group, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/iraq_iran_gulf/88_iraq_and_the_kurds___trouble_along_the_trigger_line.pdf - Middle East Notes and Comments: The Whole World is Watching by Jon B. Alterman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 7, 2009 – web link: http://csis.org/publication/middle-east-notes-and-comment-whole-world-watching - Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI: Twenty Interviews and Five Conversation with “High Value # 1” in 2004 - National Security Archive, George Washington University, July 1, 2009 – web link: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm- Though Obama Viewed Positively, Still Much Criticism of U.S. Foreign Policy: Global Poll, World Public Opinion.org – July 7, 2009 – web link: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/views_on_countriesregions_bt/623.php?nid=&id=&pnt=623&lb=
- Uighurs and China’s Zinjiang Region by Preeti Bhattacharji, Council on Foreign Relations, July 6, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/16870/understanding_the_uighurs.html?breadcrumb=%2F
HEALTH CARE REFORM- Fork in the Road: Alternative Paths to a Higher Performance U.S. Health System – The Commonwealth Fund, June 24, 2009 – web link: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Jun/Fork-In-the-Road.aspx - The Health Care Disconnect by Darrell M. West, Brookings Institution, July 10, 2009 – web link: http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0710_healthcare_west.aspx IMMIGRATION- Broken Immigration System Risks Serious Damage to U.S. National Interests, Warns Council on Foreign Relations Task Force, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19743/broken_immigration_system_risks_serious_damage_to_us_national_interests_warns_cfr_task_force.html - ‘Significant Hurdles’ Remain on Immigration Reform – Interview with Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Immigration Reform, July 8, 2009 – web link: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19752/overhauling_immigration.html?breadcrumb=%2F
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