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Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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you every have to give a small speech <strong>of</strong> about two<br />

or three seconds, that's the speech to give, they<br />

have done 52. Because let me tell you, nothing else<br />

in the grand scheme <strong>of</strong> things, we are about getting<br />

people out <strong>of</strong> harm's way. Remember our mandate from<br />

the very beginning. And the real question is, have<br />

you done that? And so that's where we are with<br />

that.<br />

And you can see the projections even<br />

through 2008 where we expect to be. We will be<br />

close to 16,000 at the end <strong>of</strong> '08.<br />

Now, in addition to the 52 that we have<br />

done and in the process <strong>of</strong> passing the last two or<br />

three over to post, we have 29 that are under<br />

construction, design or construction. And you can<br />

see the value there. It's slightly over three<br />

billion dollars. We have other projects, as I<br />

mentioned, some rehabs, you see the number there,<br />

and so on. I'm not going to go through all <strong>of</strong><br />

these.<br />

But you also see that there are 76 new<br />

projects, just like we have just talked about, that<br />

are in our plan going forward. So, you can see, we<br />

still have work to do. We have done about 42<br />

percent <strong>of</strong> the identified problem. When we arrived<br />

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