Special U.S. Advisor for Children's Issue to Visit India

WASHINGTON: America's Special Advisor for Children's issues Susan Jacobs will travel to India this week to hold talks with Indian officials on cooperation as partners under Hague Adoption Convention.

During her visit to India from May 11 to 14, Jacobs would meet with "government officials to discuss further cooperation as partners under The Hague Adoption Convention," the State Department said in a statement yesterday.

"She will also continue our regular discussions on international parental child abduction," it added.

Susan S. Jacobs is the first person to fill the newly created role of Special Advisor for International Children's Issues. This new foreign policy position and assignment for Jacobs was created by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and announced on July 1, 2010.

Jacobs has previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs. A former U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, she also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Issues in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bucharest, and San Salvador.

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