It also worked for the State Department on renovations to U.S. embassies and consulates overseas, he says.
At our embassies and consulates, people are placing flowers and leaving notes.
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Obama wants various government agencies to help set up "one-stop-shops" in the U.S. and in American embassies and consulates to help encourage exports.
The computers are part of a system that links computers in Washington holding "unclassified but sensitive" information with 250 U.S. embassies and consulates.
The State Department is now requiring embassies and consulates to include current visa information in their warning on individuals with terrorist or suspected terrorist connections.
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These reports were distributed at embassies and consulates throughout the world.
And he has been focused from the beginning on ensuring that adequate security reinforcements be brought to bear at embassies and consulates and diplomatic facilities where that's deemed necessary.
In late May the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates worldwide informing them they "may invite representatives from the government of Iran" to their July Fourth celebrations.
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Starved of cash, the department has had to close over 30 embassies and consulates, cut more than 2, 000 employees, and shut down a quarter of the libraries maintained abroad by its information agency.
Meanwhile, I think all Americans should give thanks to the heroic work that's being done by our foreign service officers and the men and women serving in our embassies and consulates around the world.
Many U.S. embassies and consulates are closed in around the world while others are on "authorized departure, " which means the State Department will allow and pay for the departure of family members and non-emergency personnel at a particular post on a voluntary basis.
We are working with governments around the region to remind them of their responsibilities to provide security to diplomatic personnel and facilities, and we are ensuring that more resources are put in place to protect our embassies and consulates and our personnel in these parts of the world where unrest is occurring.
Security was also tightened at embassies, consulates and foreign offices of the Jewish Agency, officials said.
He also noted that the National Counterterrorism Center had identified some 281 threats to U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities, embassies, ambassadors and consulates during the six months before the attack in Benghazi.
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Opening the debate, Mr Hague told MPs that, far from shrinking, the FCO's presence overseas would be bolstered by "up to 11 new British embassies and eight new consulates for trade offices" by 2015.
And that is why it is so important that embassies, consulates, other facilities, and personnel are protected.
Since all U.S. consulates and embassies operate under the same laws and regulations, the data raise legitimate questions about what is happening to U.S. company applications to transfer important personnel into the United States from India.
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And I am saying that when it comes to the number of personnel who are in place at consulates and embassies and other diplomatic facilities around the world, those decisions are appropriately made at the State Department by security personnel.
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