HAVANA, (acn) Nineteen individuals involved in U.S. policy making and government are accompanying Secretary of State John Kerry for the official ceremony opening the U.S. Embassy in Havana, August 14, according to a communiqué issued by the State Department
The last U.S. Secretary of State to visit the island was Edward Stettinius Reilly, in March of 1945.
The list includes:
1. John Kerry, Secretary of State
2. Bruce Andrews, Deputy Secretary of Commerce
3. Karen Bass, Congressional Representative
4. Sarah Bloom Raskin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
5. Barbara Boxer, Senator
6. Steve Cohen, Congressional Representative
7. Marcos Feierstein, Chief Director of National Security Council
8. Jonathan Finer, Chief of Staff of the Secretary of State
9. Jeff Flake, Senator
10. Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs
11. John Kirby, State Department spokesperson
12. Amy Klobuchar, Senator
13. Patrick Leahy, Senator
14. Barbara Lee, Congressional Representative
15. Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
16. Jim McGovern, Congressional representative
17. David McKean, Director of the Office of Policy Planning
18. Peter Selfridge, Head of the Protocol Office
19. David Thorne, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State
20. Kurt Tidd, Assistant Chief of the Joint Staff.
