<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--If you see this error message then you do not support RSS v2.0.--><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Carter Center]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carter Center Trip Reports 2008]]></description><item><title><![CDATA[31 December 2008: Re-subscribe to Carter Center RSS feeds]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/current_rss.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Carter Center is reorganizing its RSS feeds. Please re-subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds. New URLs are listed here.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[18 December 2008: Paris, Lebanon, and Syria Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: Dec. 5-16, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/paris_lebanon_syria_2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[I flew to Paris with Jeffrey and met with other Elders at Le Bristol, an excellent hotel. Since Desmond Tutu and Gra&#231;a Machel had to attend a funeral in S. Africa, Mary Robinson & I shared the chairmanship. We reviewed our previous experiences in Sudan (Darfur), Cyprus, and S. Africa (Zimbabwe), and my substitution for the Elders in the April Middle East trip.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 November 2008: South Africa and Zimbabwe Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Nov. 20-24, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/south_africa_nov2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[As president, I worked actively with African leaders and the British to change the apartheid regime of Rhodesia into a democratic Zimbabwe in 1980.  Eight years later, The Carter Center established one of our first Global 2000 agriculture projects in Zimbabwe &#150; so successful that we soon shifted our emphasis to more needy countries.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[13 October 2008: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Cyprus:  Oct. 7-10, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/cyprus_2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Representing the Elders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lakhdar Brahimi, and I visited Cyprus, hoping that our expression of interest would encourage the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in their effort to resolve the long-standing dispute over the division of the island. I was involved in this challenging diplomatic task even before becoming president in 1977.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[23 July 2008: Report of Trip to the Arctic Region by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Observations on Global Climate Change: July 10-18, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/arctic_July2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[We flew with Ted Turner and Sally Ranney from the Americus airport to Goose Bay, Newfoundland, where we re-fueled and then went to the northernmost airport in the world at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, at 78&#186; N latitude. We first visited the newly constructed seed storage vault, where 500 seeds of as many agricultural crop species as possible will be stored indefinitely, replaced as the germination time expires.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[22 April 2008: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan: April 13-22, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/middle_east_2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rosalynn, Jeff, and I arrived in Israel Sunday, 4/13/08, after a very exciting and successful election monitoring mission in Nepal (see prior trip report). Since Israel had declined to approve a previously planned visit by three of us Elders (Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, and me), I expected a similar negative reaction when I substituted this trip on behalf of The Carter Center. Sure enough, all my requests to meet with ministers of the government were publicly rejected and, more seriously, three requests from our Secret Service detail to work with Israeli security were rejected. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 April 2008: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Nepal: April 6-14, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/nepal_2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Carter Center has been deeply involved in Nepal since 2003 in attempting to assist with ending a 10-year revolutionary war and find a peaceful resolution of differences among the political factions. I visited Nepal in June and November 2007 to help encourage an election for a constituent assembly to write a new constitution, and our team gathered these last few days to monitor the twice-postponed event. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 April  2008: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Accra, Ghana, and Abuja, Nigeria: March 30 - April 3, 2008]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/africa_2008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary purposes of our trip were to enhance the long-stalled eradication of Guinea worm in Ghana, to conduct our annual Guinea worm eradication meeting in Nigeria, and to induce the Nigerian government to acquire 9 million treated bed nets to combat malaria and lymphatic filaria. In addition, I wanted to have political discussions with Presidents Kufuor and Yar'Adua concerning their electoral processes.]]></description></item></channel></rss>