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  • Samuel W. Bodman (Photo:U.S. Mission) Secretary of Energy at IAEA General Conference

    On September 29, 2008 the annual IAEA General Conference started, bringing together all the Agency's member states to address important issues. Find remarks of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman on the website.

  • The United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). Credit: Associated Press The U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Vienna

    The Vienna International Center hosts UN Organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and many more. The U.S. Mission works with them to improve international cooperation in nuclear technology, crime, terrorism, space and free trade.

     
  • AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Mike Vogt Crime Commission: Focus on Violence against Women

    The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which meets annually, is the principal UN body in international policies on crime. This years’ main topics were violence against women and girls, Organized Crime, Corruption and Terrorism. Please find Ambassador Schulte's statement and more info by mouseclick.






















     
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Media Statement: Ambassador Schulte
Statement concerning the IAEA Board of Governors Resolution on Libya from September 24, 2008

Media Statement: Ambassador Schulte

Ambassador Schulte: Oslo Remarks
"Iran's Nuclear Program: What Threat Does It Pose?" on September 9, 2008

Ambassador Schulte: Oslo Remarks

Video: Ambassador Schulte on BBC's Hardtalk
In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 22 September, Stephen Sackur talks to the US ambassador to the IAEA.

Video: Ambassador Schulte on BBC's Hardtalk

Ambassador Schulte's Persian Weblog
Comments and remarks by Ambassador Schulte in Persian. A possibility to get in touch and ask questions.


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GNEP Meeting in Paris
Can we shape our nuclear energy future in a way that not only benefits our economies and our environment, but improves our security as well? The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) addresses these questions. GNEP member states recently met in Paris. Here you find U.S. Secretary of Energy Bodman's closing remarks from October 1.

Ambassador Gregory L Schulte (Photo: U.S. Mission)

IAEA Board of Governors
The IAEA Board of Governors met from September 22 to 26 to discuss many important nuclear issues, most notably recent nuclear developments in Iran, the Democratic Republic of North Korea and Libya. Please find the Statements by U.S. representative to the IAEA, Gregory L. Schulte, on the website

Two men walk together in poppy field. [State Dept. photo]

Update on Counternarcotics in Afghanistan
The narcotics problem in Afghanistan is stabilizing, but considerable challenges remain in areas of the country where security is a problem. The August 2008 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Poppy Cultivation Survey contains many useful facts on the Situation. Please find a State Department Fact sheet on the report.

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2008 Trafficking in Persons Report released
Vienna, June 4, 2008. Human trafficking turns people into slaves and sexual commodities. Millions of people are trafficked each year, most of them children and women. The U.S. government and the U.S. Mission to the UN in Vienna work hard to highlight and combat these crimes. On June 4, the U.S. Department of State released its Report on the issue.

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Ambassador Schulte at International Expert's Conference
Laxenburg, Austria, June 20. Ambassador Schulte visted IIASA, the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, to participate in an international conference hosted by IIASA's Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) program entitled "Theorists Meet Practitioners."

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