The goal in the next phase, the assistant secretary of state said, is complete dismantlement, but that could take as long as five years.
According to the New York Post, Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, has not resigned as previously reported, but has only switched desks.
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Ms Rice, a protege of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, was the youngest assistant secretary of state in history when appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, as assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
In 1982, when the job of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs became available and Wolfowitz asked for it, his boss, George Shultz, hesitated before granting the request.
However Mr Carson - the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs - said there had been talks to organise the transfer to The Hague "as quickly as possible", Reuters news agency reports.
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Upon Mr Clinton's departure, the American assistant secretary of state for South Asia, Karl Inderfurth, flew back to Delhi, ostensibly to apprise the Indians of the results of the meeting.
But at Wednesday's hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, quoted what he said was an internal e-mail dated the day after the attack in which Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones told the Libyan ambassador that Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia was responsible for the attack.
The officials, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Environment John Turner and State Department Legal Counsel William Taft IV, didn't know what to say.
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That is also the aim of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke who met with Croatia's president in Zagreb Wednesday.
An indication of just how serious a problem all this can become was revealed recently in an op.ed. in the Washington Post by one of the United States' top hemispheric diplomats, former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega.
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Arturo A. Valenzuela, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs), vice Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.
Perhaps even more surprising was what the U.S. negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said after the talks.
He's director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a former assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs.
He will head a team of monitors co-ordinating implementation of the so-called "road-map" to peace, after an experience as assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation in the State Department.
Its terms were described in a letter from the U.S. assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs to Sen.
Sudan claimed to be going after rebels, but the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, rejected that explanation.
Clinton appointed him ambassador to Germany and then, when the Bosnian crisis deepened, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
In the run-up to the election, the European Union (EU) said it would only have limited contact with a president who faced trial at the ICC, while US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson warned Kenyan voters that "choices have consequences".
Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
Turner , a specialist in constitutional law who is currently a professor of the University of Virginia School of Law and a former acting Assistant Secretary of State.
The UK and France said recently they would only have limited contact with a president who faced trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC), while US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson warned Kenyan voters that "choices have consequences", reports the Reuters news agency.
The U.S. envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said on Friday that a couple of sticking points remain.
On CNN's "American Morning" Friday, Rubin -- a former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and a supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- said McCain's criticism of Obama's position was hypocritical.
"This is a moment in which we must seize the opportunity for peace as war rages on, " said Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who is mediating the talks.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER HILL (Assistant Secretary of State): The sort of fundamental issues I think we're okay on.
David Donahue, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State who oversees the program, said the original draw was voided because it "did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants as required by U.S. law, " according to a State Department website.
Jeffrey Feltman -- an assistant secretary of state who is the department's top official on the Middle East -- and National Security Council official Daniel Shapiro traveled to Damascus twice in recent months in an effort to improve ties with Syria.
"We are very pleased with the rehatting of the Kenyan troops in Somalia, " Johnnie Carson, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said after a trip to Mogadishu on Sunday.
The United States also is interested in building a new embassy in Damascus, and Eric Boswell, assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, recently traveled to Syria to examine the security situation there.
The staff of the Cairo Embassy has been overwhelmed by inquiries and the State Department now has a 24-7 task force and call centers, said Assistant Secretary of State Janice L. Jacobs.
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