4th Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment VII July 2012

Mme. Secretary began July 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland attending a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the European headquarters of the United Nations where she also granted a flurry of media interviews.  On the third, placing a phone call to Pakistani FM Khar,  she managed to get the supply lines through Pakistan into Afghanistan reopened.

Fuel tanker trucks, used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan, are seen parked near oil terminals in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on July 4, 2012. Pakistan confirmed that it had decided to reopen vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan which have been closed since November, a government spokesman said. The official announcement came after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Pakistan was re-opening the roads and that the United States was "sorry" for losses suffered by the Pakistani military in November. The supply routes have been shut since November when an American aircraft mistakenly killed 24 Pakistan soldiers, aggravating already difficult relations between Washington and Islamabad. AFP PHOTO / ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/GettyImages)

On the Fourth of July she was back in D.C. to host a party for foreign ambassadors to Washington.

On the fifth she was wheels up again for Paris for a meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People.

She made a stop in Afghanistan to announce the designation of Afghanistan as a “major non-NATO ally.

designated Afghanistan as a “major non-NATO ally

She was in Tokyo on the eighth for an international conference on Afghanistan. While there she achieved an historical trilateral agreement among the U.S., Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

On the ninth she was in Mongolia.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers the closing remarks to the International Women's Leadership Forum at Government House Monday, July 9, 2012 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. (AP Photo/Brendan

On the 10th she was in Viet Nam.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a Fulbright program at the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi July 10, 2012. Clinton is on an official two-day visit to Vietnam. REUTERS/Luong Thai Linh/Pool (VIETNAM - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh attend a press conference at the Government Guest House in Hanoi on July 10, 2012. Clinton is visiting Vietnam during a multiple stop tour of Asia where she is expected to meet with leaders and others to strengthen American economic and strategic interests. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, foreground, signs Vietnamese translations of her book for U.S. Embassy staff members at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

On the 11th she left Viet Nam, stopped in Laos, and went on to Cambodia to meet up with President Obama for ASEAN.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shakes hands with Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong (R) at their meeting at the prime minister's office in Vientiane on July 11, 2012. Clinton became the first US secretary of state to visit Laos for 57 years, on a trip focused on the damaging legacy of the Vietnam War and a controversial dam project. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech during the ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks to her seat with other foreign ministers during an East Asia Summit Ministerial Meeting at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations regional forum at Peace Palace, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

The 13th was her last day in Cambodia. I was not supposed to be. Escalating rocket attacks in the Middle East caused President Obama to dispatch her to the region.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Myanmar Preside Thein Sein, second from right, walk towards a meeting at Le Meridien Hotel Friday, July 13, 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Clinton is in Cambodia to attend ASEAN regional forum and meet with other ministers and leaders to strengthen economic and strategic relationships between Asia and the U.S. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

The first stop was Egypt to confer with President Morsi.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pictured at Cairo International Airport on July 15, 2012 before her departure to Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria. Clinton is visiting Egypt to meet with the nation's newly elected president and other government and civil leaders to speak about the relationship between the United States and the new democracy. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)

caption id="attachment_37263" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stands with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) before their meeting in Jerusalem July 16, 2012. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS)[/caption]
Back in D.C. on the 18th she worked behind closed doors at first in meetings and published an op-ed containing, among other elements, a rationale for ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty effectively killed week by the Republican Congress. Then speeches, more speeches, a cabinet meeting and wheels up.

Secretary of State HIllary Rodham Clinton waves as she and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, leave the Gallup headquarters after addressing the "Evidence and Impact: Closing the Gender Data Gap" conference in Washington, Thursday, July 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the opening plenary of the 19th International AIDS Conference July 23, 2012 in Washington, DC. The International AIDS Conference, the world's largest one, is held in the U.S. for the first time since 1990. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a symposium on ending genocide, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, July 24, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives to speak at the Second Annual Global Diaspora Forum, Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The plane that will take Secretary Clinton to Africa awaits her at Andrews AFB.

The archives for July 2012 are here.