Public Schedule for August 9, 2012
Public Schedule
Washington, DCAugust 9, 2012
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLIC SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012
SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Secretary Clinton is on foreign travel to Abuja, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana. Secretary Clinton is accompanied by Counselor Mills, Assistant Secretary Carson, Spokesperson Nuland, Director Sullivan, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs Grant Harris, and VADM Harry B. Harris, Jr., JCS. Please click here for more information.
4:00 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Security Council, in Abuja, Nigeria.
(CAMERA SPRAY)
5:00p.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with Nigerian Anti-corruption Leaders, in Abuja, Nigeria.
(CAMERA SPRAY)
6:00p.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with the staff and families of Embassy Abuja, in Abuja, Nigeria.
(POOLED PRESS COVERAGE)
8:20p.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, in Accra, Ghana.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
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Ghana's new President John Dramani Mahama and his wife Lordina arrive to view the body of late President John Atta Mills at the parliament in Accra on August 8, 2012. Ghana began three days of funeral rites for Mills on August 8, with his body to lie in state ahead of his August 10 burial to be attended by foreign dignitaries, including Hillary Clinton. The death of Mills on July 24, five months ahead of polls in which he was to seek re-election, threw the West African nation into mourning and upended the presidential campaign in a country that recently joined the ranks of the world's significant oil producers. Mahama, who had been vice president, was sworn in to serve out the remainder of Mills' term hours after his death, as dictated by the west African nation's constitution.
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