Posted By Josh RoginWednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:17 AM Share
In which we scour the transcript of the State Department's
daily presser so you don't have to. Here are the highlights of today's briefing
by Department Spokesman Ian Kelly:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Forum for the Future and "reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to broad
engagement with Muslim communities around the world," Kelly said. Then she
moved on to Cairo where she met with Intelligence Minister General OmarSuleiman and Foreign Minister Aboul
Gheit. Wednesday she will meet with President Hosni Mubarak. .
Clinton's meeting with Polish Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski planned for Wednesday
was cancelled, despite the fact that he was already in Washington.
Middle East Special Envoy George Mitchell will join Clinton Wednesday in Cairo after meeting
Tuesday in Amman with King Abdullah
and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
North Korea's announcement that it had
reprocessed enough plutonium for another nuclear bomb is a violation of
agreements and UN Security Council resolutions, Kelly said, although the State
Department is not official condemning remarks the regime made to that effect.
Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell is in Burma now and will stop in Tokyo Thursday before
returning to the U.S. Tomorrow he will meet with imprisoned democracy icon Aung
San Suu Kyi.
The new Japanese government is still deciding how to position themselves
regarding the relocation of a key U.S. air base in Okinawa. "Ultimately, it's for the government
of Japan to decide what kind of relationship that they're going to have with us,"
Kelly said.
State
Department is not explicitly again the UN General Assembly discussing again the
Goldstone report, which the House condemned on Tuesday, but "our priority is
that we don't want to do anything that's going to make it more difficult to
resume talks," Kelly said.
Still
no agreement on a date or agenda for another P5+1 meeting with Iran.
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