International Organizations

These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus.

This publication covers foreign missions (embassies, interest sections) in the United States. It contains the names of members of the diplomatic staffs of these missions and their spouses.

The United States Department of State Dispatch has provided key speeches and testimony by senior State Department officials as well as current U.S. treaty actions since 1990. However, all speeches, briefings, and testimony from State Department officials and the current U.S. treaty actions are now available on the web site at www.state.gov upon release. Hard copy distribution of this publication ended with the December 1999 issue.

Information for assistance to US citizens abroad.

Selected material from before 1945. Complete volumes 1945-1976.

The Foreign Relations of the United States available online, from v.1 1861 to 1960.

199-2009. See also earlier reports.