Secretary Clinton calls unprecedented meeting of top envoys

Secretary Clinton arrived in Haiti yesterday.

Having largely ignored Secretary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, the upheaval in Egypt has called the media's attention to the fact that she plays a major role in US foreign policy. On  Sunday, the secretary was a guest on five talk shows, and today's headlines shout that she called an  unprecedented meeting of top envoys that began in Washington today.

From an AP report at the Huffington Post:

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.

The top envoys from nearly all of America's 260 embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries will be gathering at the State Department beginning on Monday. Officials say it's the first such global conference.

The gathering comes at a time of crisis in Egypt that could reshape dynamics in the Middle East, fallout from leaked diplomatic documents and congressional calls for sweeping cuts in foreign aid.

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