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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                            (Moscow, Russia)
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For Immediate Release                                       June 4, 2000

OFFICIAL DELEGATION ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT TO RUSSIA

Official Delegation
The President
Ambassador James F. Collins, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State William Richardson, Secretary of Energy John Podesta, Chief of Staff to the President Steve Ricchetti, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief

of Staff
Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security

Affairs
Gene Sperling, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

and Director of the National Economic Council Sidney Blumenthal, Assistant to the President Bruce Lindsey, Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the

President
Joseph Lockhart, Assistant to the President and Press

Secretary Ambassador Mary Mel French, Chief of Protocol Strobe Talbott,Deputy Secretary of State John Holum, Special Adviser to the President on Arms Control, Department

of State
Walter Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ernest Moniz, Under Secretary, Department of Energy Steve Sestanovich, Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the

Secretary of State for the Newly Independent State Edwin Truman, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs,

Department of the Treasury
James Steinberg,

Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Douglas Band, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of

Advance
James Kennedy, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press

Secretary
Jennifer Palmieri, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press

Secretary
Lieutenant General Donald L. Kerrick, USA, Senior Military

Advisor to the Secretary of State Mark Medish, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs,

National Security Council
Gary Samore, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for

Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council Steve Andreasen, Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control,

National Security Council
Elaine Shocas, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State Richard Boucher, Spokesman, Department of State

Travelling Staff
Brooke D. Anderson, Special Assistant to the President and

Senior Director for Communications, National Security Council Nanda Chitre, Special Assistant to the President and Assistant

Press Secretary
Heather Davis, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director

of Presidential Scheduling
Anne Edwards, Special Assistant to the President and

Director, Press Advance
Kirk Hanlin, Special Assistant to the President

and Trip Director
Marisa Luzzatto, Special Assistant to the President

and Deputy Director of Advance
Tomasz Malinowski, Special Assistant to the President and Senior

     Director for Foreign Policy Speechwriting, National Security 
     Council
Robert Wescott, 
     Special Assistant to the President for International Finance, 
     National Economic Council 
Edward Widmer, Special Assistant to the President and Director for 
     Speechwriting, National Security Council 

Christine Anderson, White House Press Office Manager Wendy Arends, Director of Surrogate Scheduling, Cabinet Affairs Jeannie Bull, Director, Office of Presidential Travel Support,

Department of State
Justin Coleman, Associate Staff Secretary Sheba Crocker, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Assistant to

the President for National Security Affairs Betty Currie, Personal Secretary to the President Charles Duncan, Director, Office of White House Liaison, Department of

State
Kris Engskov, President's Aide Lee Feinstein, Deputy Director of

Policy Planning, Department of State Sarah Gegenheimer, Assistant Press Secretary Suzanne George, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of

State
Cynthia Gire, Director for Strategic Planning and Advance,

National Security Council
Michael Hammer, Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Director for Public Affairs,

National Security Council
Laura Marcus, Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff Connie Mariano, Physician to the President Penny Price,

Protocol Gifts Officer
Tom Rosshirt, Director for Speechwriting, National Security Council Jason Schechter, Special Assistant to the Press Secretary David Stockwell, Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and

Director for Public Affairs, National Security Council James Timbie, Senior Adviser on Arms Control, Department of State Andrew Weiss, Director for Russian Affairs, National Security Council

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