Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that the seventh meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) will be held in Washington, D.C., June 23-24. The sixth Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE) will be held concurrently with the S&ED.

Washington, DC - Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will participate in the Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct held at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on June 18 in Paris, France.

Washington, DC - The United States is deeply concerned by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's travel to South Africa for the African Union summit.

Washington, DC - How does a young man from Orlando, Florida, a short drive from Disney World, grow up to become “a brutal, drug crazed torturer,” is the question Johnny Dwyer, author of the recently published book American Warlord, attempts to answer. Dwyer chronicles the life of Chucky Taylor who traveled to Liberia and became “the most feared man in Liberia.”

Washington, DC - The United States welcomes the decision of the Azerbaijani government to permit Emin Huseynov’s safe departure from Azerbaijan today.

Washington, DC - The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved an agreement between the IAEA and Kazakhstan to establish a bank of low enriched uranium (LEU) in that country. When it is finally established, the LEU would be owned by the IAEA and the bank operated by Kazakhstan. The LEU would be made available to member states of the IAEA for peaceful nuclear reactor fuel if they could not obtain LEU on the global commercial market.