Sunday, February 13, 2011

#SecClinton News From The Twittersphere


Well, our girl at State, Mme. Secretary, spent another Sunday working the phones according to her main spokesman, P.J. Crowley who, similarly, spent the afternoon tweeting about her calls.

Philip J. Crowley

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley#SecClinton is making calls to regional and global leaders to gain a shared perspective on #Egypt, recent developments and the way forward.
Here are a few tweets about specific calls, and I must self-correct. I spoke too soon, Aboul Gheit remains Foreign Minister of Egypt.
Philip J. Crowley
PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley#EUHighRepAshton and #SecClinton updated each other on events in #Egypt, #Tunisia and the #MiddleEast since last weekend's #Quartet meeting.

Philip J. Crowley

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley #Egyptian FM #AboulGheit updated #SecClinton on the new interim government and pledged a roadmap that will describe Egypt's plans and

Philip J. Crowley

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley #SecClinton and #French FM #Alliot-Marie spoke today about the situation in #Tunisia, recent developments in #Egypt and #MiddleEast peace.

Philip J. Crowley

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley #SecClinton and #Italian FM Frattini discussed ways to support #Egypt as Egypt identifies specific needs. They also talked about #Tunisia.


PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley #SecClinton discussed regional developments with #Palestinian President #Abbas. Deputy Envoy David Hale will continue dialogue this week.


Philip J. Crowley

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley #SecClinton spoke today with #Emirati FM #AbdullahBinZayedAlNahyan about #Egypt, its impact on the #MiddleEast and other regional issues.

This from Tehran Bureau may have something to do with the one below it from the State Department Twitter account.

TehranBureau TehranBureau.comKaleme is reporting that nightly chants of Allah o Akbar were heard not only in Tehran, but also Tabriz, Shiraz, Rasht and Isfahan.

StateDept StateDeptRT @USAdarFarsi: US calls on #Iran to allow people to enjoy same universal rights to peacefully assemble, demonstrate as in Cairo. #25Bahman