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• Department of State | Coordinator for Counterterrorism | Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs | Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor  | Human Rights Reports : 2007 MENA. The U.S. Department of State is the lead U.S. foreign affairs agency and is responsible for implementing the President's foreign policies. The U.S. has diplomatic relations with more than 170 countries and maintains about 260 embassies, consulates, and missions around the world. You may find bios of its principal officers.
• US Agency for International Development's strategic objective is the transition to and consolidation of democratic regimes throughout the world -- as an end in itself and because it is a critical element in promoting sustainable development. It was folded into the State Department. For the Middle East there is a special Middle East Partnership Initiative - MEPI.
• USIA's mission is to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest; and to broaden the dialogue between Americans, their institutions and their counterparts abroad. It was folded into the State Department.
• The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is responsible for the centralized coordination, direction, and performance of highly specialized technical functions in support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. communications and produce foreign intelligence information. It is not to be confused with the CIA (see below). It has a much bigger budget than the CIA but is under the overall direction of CIA director.
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