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  • Ambassador Ian Kelly, Chief of the US Mission to the OSCE at the OSCE Informal Ministerial in Almaty, 17 July 2010. (OSCE/Velimir Alic) Informal Meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers

    Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg was the Head of the U.S. Delegation at the Informal Ministerial meeting held on July 16 and 17 in Almaty. During the Saturday session, Amb. Ian Kelly delivered a statement on moving the OSCE security dialogue forward and the OSCE summit.

  • Marine Guard at the Fourth of July Reception at the Residence Ian and Francesca Kelly. (USOSCE/Gabriela Peterson) The USOSCE Celebrates Independence Day

    Ian and Francesca Kelly hosted a Fourth of July reception for 400 guests, among whom were Permanent Representatives to the OSCE from virtually all of the participating States as well as senior OSCE Secretariat officials, other diplomats, members of the press and representatives from the Tri-Missions Community.

  • Ambassafor Ian Kelly talks in an interview on Lithuanian television broadcaster LNTV. (LTV) Amb. Kelly interviewed by Lithuanian National TV

    During his July 8-9 trip to Vilnius for a roundtable on Lithuania’s 2011 OSCE Chairmanship, Amb. Kelly was interviewed by Vykintas Pugaciauskas, LTV’s leading foreign affairs correspondent. Clips were used in a July 17 story about the OSCE aired on Panorama, a prime-time news program with approx. 250,000 viewers.

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Ambassador Herbert Salber, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, and Kyrgyzstan's Ambassador to the OSCE, Lydia Imanalieva, talk to the media about the OSCE Police Advisory Group, 2 September 2010. (USOSCE/Colin Peters)

September 2: This week at the Permanent Council
Charge d’Affaires Carol Fuller delivered a statement on the situation in Kyrgyzstan, and responded to both a report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and to the EU’s statement on the death penalty in the United States.

USOSCE Deputy Political Counsellor Andrew Hyde briefing students from Syracuse University Strasbourg Center, 1 Septermber, 2010. (USOSCE/Colin Peters)

Andrew Hyde briefs Syracuse University Strasbourg Center students on OSCE issues
On September 1, Mr. Hyde briefed 38 students from Syracuse University Strasbourg Center about USG goals for the OSCE, efforts to maintain security and stability, and the role of human rights in these efforts.

Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, during a news conference in Vienna. 29 July 2010. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

August 26: OSCE Media Freedom Rep. Commends US Law against 'Libel Tourism'
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, welcomed a law signed recently by U.S. President Barack Obama to protect journalists, authors and publishers from 'libel tourism'. Click the title for a summary and the full text of The Speech Act.

Empty desks with headphones for translation at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting hall before the start of a meeting at the Hofburg in Vienna, 18 May 2006. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

August 3: Special Meeting of the Permanent Council
Decision reached on the time and venue of the OSCE summit and review conferences.

Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, delivers her first report to the OSCE Permanent Council. Vienna, 29 July 2010. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

July 29: This week at the Permanent Council
Amb. Kelly responded to the OSCE Rep. on Media Freedom, the Chair of the Exec. Committee of the Int. Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, and the Head of the OSCE Center in Astana. Statements were delivered on the Int. Court of Justice Opinion on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, the Geneva Discussions on Georgia, and election support for Afghanistan.

Multimedia from Washington
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VIDEO: Ukraine Independence Day
Secretary Clinton's remarks on Ukraine Independence Day, August 24.

Seal of the U.S. Department of State

VIDEO: New START Treaty Ratification
August 11, 2010 Remarks by Secretary Clinton, Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller and Assistant Secretary Verma on the New START Treaty Ratification.

June's issue of eJournal USA, 'Defining Internet Freedom'

June's issue of "eJournal USA"
This issue addresses the difficulties nations face agreeing on a universally applicable definition of Internet freedom, and features materials that survey the current state of freedom on the Internet in different parts of the world.