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US Treasury Secretary postpones Tanzania trip
2006-03-15 13:22:06
By Guardian Reporter
US Treasury Secretary John Snow’s visit to Tanzania planned for this week has been postponed.
Reports reaching The Guardian yesterday quoted Tony Fratto, Snow’s chief spokesman, as saying that Snow has postponed his visit to Tanzania, which was part of the secretary’s planned weeklong tour of Africa, in order to deal with various congressional issues.
’The Secretary has decided that a variety of issues pending before Congress this week made it necessary for him to delay a trip he had scheduled to meet with finance officials in Tanzania and South Africa,’ Fratto said.
Snow planned numerous meetings with members of the Senate and House over the next week to discuss what types of changes the administration favored in the law governing reviews of national security interests when a foreign company purchases a US asset.
Fratto said the trip would be rescheduled, but no new date had been selected.
Snow was scheduled to tour Tanzania a few months after British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown visited the country.
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