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SAFE TRIP ABROAD

Foreword

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10942
Bureau of Consular Affairs
March 2002

When you travel abroad, the odds are in your favor that you will have a safe and incident-free trip. However, crime and violence, as well as unexpected difficulties, do happen to U.S. citizens in all parts of the world. No one is better able to tell you this than the U.S. consular officers who work in more than 250 U.S. embassies and consulates around the globe. Every day of the year, U.S. embassies and consulates receive calls from American citizens in distress. ( more )

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