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Reed & Wyman greet Consular Corps

Reed & Wyman greet Consular Corps

From left: Irish Consul General John Keane, Hungarian Consul General Helen Szablya, Secretary Reed, Secretary-elect Wyman, and Mrs. Keane (Photo courtesy of Patrick McDonald) Secretary of State Sam Reed and Secretary-elect Kim Wyman, in their first official joint appearance since Wyman’s election two weeks ago, greeted the Consular Corps Tuesday. It was Reed’s last meeting with a group that includes many old friends — and the first for Wyman. The Secretary of State, along with the Governor and Lieutenant Governor,…

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Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

(Secretary of State Reed stands with former Secretary of State Munro (left) and WTC Tacoma President/CEO Anthony Hemstad after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.) The World Trade Center Tacoma has honored Secretary of State Sam Reed for his long years of work on behalf of international trade and tourism to benefit the nation’s most trade-dependent state. The center, a fast-growing member of the international network of trade centers, gave Reed its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.   The 19th Annual Globe…

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Promoting trade between India and Washington State

Promoting trade between India and Washington State

Hemant Sonawala of Mumbai, India, with Secretary Reed Hoping to increase trade and tourism between Washington State and India, good friend of Sam Reed, Hemant Sonawala, met in the Secretary of  State’s Office today with colleagues from the Department of Commerce and the Lieutenant Governor’s Office.  Hemant is on a two-week trade mission, promoting India and the vast opportunities for small- to medium-sized Washington businesses to invest in that market.

Taj Mahal. Elephants. And You!

Taj Mahal. Elephants. And You!

Time is running out to sign up for the 2009 trade and cultural mission to exotic and fascinating India with Secretary Reed and friends! You only have till the end of the month to put your name on the list and join Reed on a 8-day blitz through Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad in September. It will be a Taj-Mahal-touring, curry-sampling, hand-shaking, international-networking, elephant-spotting trip of a lifetime. Anyone is welcome to sign up, but local business owners are especially encouraged…

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UN Iraq election experts visit Oly

UN Iraq election experts visit Oly

Secretary of State Sam Reed and election officials recently had high-level United Nations election experts as visitors at the Capitol — and it all came about by local connections. Sandra Mitchell, an American who serves as chief technical adviser to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Baghdad, and Robert Langridge, an Aussie who serves as elections security adviser, are on furlough and visiting Mitchell’s Seattle-area friends and family.  They came to Olympia to talk elections with Reed, one of the country’s senior state…

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