Sen. Obama has done nothing meaningful as a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.<ref>http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/about.html</ref>
Obama has not even visited continental Europe as an official, and his only contact with the [[United Kingdom]] was when he joined Sen. Lugar in meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair.<ref>http://obama.senate.gov/press/050823-obama_to_visit</ref> In Russia and the former Soviet republics, he met with representatives of the International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute to discuss democracy in the former Soviet republics. He also met with Russian military officials and visited numerous nuclear/biological weapons destruction sites in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN). On the same tour, he visited London, UK, and met with Tony Blair, sitting UK Prime Minister.{http://obama.senate.gov/press/050823-obama_to_visit/]
Obama visited South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Chad; he discussed his tour of Robben Island prison, met with U.S. troops, and visited refugee camps of the people fleeing Darfur and addressed Africa's growing AIDS epidemic. <ref>http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060906-090606_africa_t/</ref>
During a ten day tour of the Middle East, he talked with government leaders in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Israel. <ref> http://obama.senate.gov/news/060113-obama_wraps_up/</ref>
== Accomplishments while serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ==