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April 9, 2008

German Foreign Minister Steinmeier Visiting Washington and Boston, April 10 to 13

Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit the United States beginning today, Thursday, to Sunday, April 13.

His appointments in Washington will include a meeting with his American counterpart, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Their talks will focus on topical issues of bilateral and international affairs.

On Friday afternoon on the occasion of the official opening of the Newseum, Federal Minister Steinmeier will visit the Berlin Gallery in the museum. The Newseum is the latest museum complex to be erected near the National Mall, and is dedicated to freedom of the press and other freedoms protected under the First Amendment.

On Saturday, April 12, Federal Minister Steinmeier will be in Boston to attend a Conference on Energy organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the Conference, the Freiburg Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will announce the establishment of a joint Center for Sustainable Energy Systems.

After this, the Minister will go on to Harvard University, where he will give a speech on transatlantic relations, drawing on themes already mentioned in his speeches in California (August 2007) and in the House of World Cultures in Berlin (September 2007).

To round off his trip, Foreign Minister Steinmeier will have the privilege of throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.

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