<?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 ]]></description><item><title><![CDATA[Feb. 15, 2010: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Ghana & Sudan, Feb. 5-13, 2010]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/ghana-sudan-Feb-2010.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rosalynn, John Hardman, Nancy Konigsmark, and I were fortunate to travel with Carter Center Trustee Richard Blum in his new Gulfstream. The purpose of this trip was to promote health programs in both countries, to attend a regional conference on Access to Information (ATI) in Accra, and help to prepare for April elections in Sudan and a referendum in Southern Sudan scheduled for next January.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dec. 14, 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Cyprus, Dec. 8-11, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/cyprus-120809.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[On The Elders' third trip to Cyprus, I joined Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Lakhdar Brahimi. This concentration of our visits on Cyprus was because of the importance of a successful effort to bring peace and unity to the troubled island, and the growing likelihood of success.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 November 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, Oct. 18-30, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/saudi-arabia-101809.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal in visiting the Arab nations was to describe work of The Carter Center and seek financial assistance for our health programs in Africa. At each stop, our hosts were also quite interested in our efforts to promote peace between Israel and its neighbors.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[9 October 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Dominican Republic and Haiti, Oct. 6-8, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/hispaniola.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group representing The Carter Center flew to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to help finalize and publicize an agreement between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from the Island of Hispaniola. Our International Task Force for Disease Eradication had identified this as a worthy project, as this is the only island in the Caribbean on which the two diseases still exist.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[31 August 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the Elders Visit to the Middle East: August 22-29, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/elders-middle-east-aug2009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rosalynn and I arrived in Jerusalem before the other Elders, and on Monday we met with Ahmed Tiki, an Arab-Israeli who is a member&#150;and deputy speaker&#150;of the Knesset. He reminded us that 20 percent of Israeli citizens are Arabs: they hold about 10 percent of the legislative seats, are severely restricted from acquiring additional property or traveling to Palestine, have only six percent of government jobs, and no Arab is among the 600 employees of the Central Bank.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[17 June 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank, and Gaza - June 2-17, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/middle-east-2009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of this trip was to join other Carter Center observers during the Lebanese election and to visit leaders involved in the overall peace process in Syria, Israel, and Palestine. In Lebanon, approximately 60 Carter Center observers from 23 nations were led by David Carroll, and former Yemeni Prime Minister Abdulkarim al Eryani was my co-chairman.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[6 May 2009: Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil:  April 27 &#150; May 5, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/latin_america_2009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Along with Rosalynn, John Hardman, Jennifer McCoy, Francisco Diez, and Melissa Montgomery, I visited leaders in these four nations to pursue the following objectives of The Carter Center...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[22 January 2009: China Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: Jan. 10-16, 2009]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/china_jan2009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rosalynn and I flew from Atlanta to Shanghai and then to Beijing to commemorate the 30th anniversary of normalizing diplomatic relations with Deng Xiaoping and to expand our Center's working relations with government ministries. Accompanied on the trip by Melissa Montgomery, we were met by John Hardman and Yawei Liu, and the next day joined Henry Kissinger, Zbig Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, six former U.S. ambassadors, and other Americans who have played important roles in China.]]></description></item></channel></rss>