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Top diplomat off to States
2007-01-25 10:22:31
By Guardian Reporter
The Centre for Foreign Relations Director, Prof. Abillah Omar has left for the United States to participate in a three-week study tour on U.S. foreign policy, which runs from today.
The study tour is part of the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Programme run by the U.S. State Department on behalf of the American people, and is intended to facilitate personal and professional contacts between the people of the United States and Tanzania.
A statement issued by U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam yesterday said the programme aims at explaining the U.S. foreign policy decision-making process, examine the process of formulating, articulating and implementing foreign policy in the U.S. democratic system, to review U.S. foreign policy priorities and goals and examine the U.S. position on these issues.
Prof. Omar will join 22 other participants from different countries, and the tour will take them to various cities throughout the United States, including Washington, D.C, New York City, New York, El Paso, Texas, and to either Indianapolis, Indiana, Lincoln, Nebraska or Springfield, Illinois, where the participants will split into three groups.
Commenting of the programme, Prof. Omari said he was going to the U.S. with high hopes and expectations, since he has often come across or been tasked to comment on issues regarding U.S. foreign policy.
“I have been a student of foreign policy but I have not seriously paid special attention to the U.S. I have been in a maze regarding U.S foreign policy, which I see as very complex, says Prof. Omari said.
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