Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns Travel to Madrid and Paris November 27-December 1

Under Secretary Burns will visit Madrid November 27-30, where he will lead the U.S. delegation to the annual Ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The United States again will demonstrate its support for the OSCE and its important work to promote human rights and democracy. The United States will seek measures to strengthen the OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the world’s premier election monitoring organization. The United States delegation also will be seeking decisions on expanding the OSCE’s activities in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

In Paris on December 1 Under Secretary Burns will participate in a P5+1 Political Directors meeting to discuss the text of the next United Nations Security Council Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Iran.

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