Foreign Relations

Lugar Correspondence with State Department re: Honduras

On July 30, Senator Dick Lugar wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the political crisis in Honduras and the effect it could have on the nomination of Arturo Valenzuela to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

On August 4, Richard R. Verma, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs replied for Secretary Clinton .

Foreign Relations Topics

• Venezuelan drug trafficking threatens U.S. gains in counternarcotics
• Questions for the record submitted to Western Hemisphere nominees:
  • Assistant Secretary of State-Designate Arturo Valenzuela
  • Ambassador to Haiti-Designate Kenneth Merten
  • Ambassador to Mexico-Designate Carlos Pascual
  • Ambassador to Brazil-Designate Thomas A. Shannon
• Questions for the record submitted to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security-Designate Ellen Tauscher
• The Kerry-Lugar Pakistan Bill
• Questions for the record submitted to Legal Adviser-Designate Harold Hongju Koh
• Lugar: Time for U.S. to 'get back in the game' of public diplomacy
• Lugar: Cuba sanctions have failed the purpose of "bringing democracy to the Cuban people"
• DRAFT COPY: The Petroleum and Poverty Paradox: Assessing U.S. and International Community Efforts to Fight the Resource Curse
• Senator Lugar's questions for the record on U.S.-India peaceful nuclear cooperation
• Senator Lugar's letter to the OAS re: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
• Anti-corruption Reforms at the Development Banks Taking Hold
• U.S. Leadership in the World and the Law of the Sea

Foreign Relations Links

• Senator Lugar's Committee Statements
• Senator Lugar and the Foreign Relations Committee
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee website
• The Nunn-Lugar Program