The President of the Inter-American Development Bank, Enrique Iglesias, will speak at the second “Lecture Series of the Americas” this Tuesday at the Organization of the American States (OAS).

Iglesias will offer his views on “Americas: from Economic Integration to Full Cooperation,” thus continuing with the series of monthly conferences sponsored by the OAS on the main issues of the hemispheric agenda. At the inaugural conference, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter spoke on “The Promise and Peril of Democracy.”

Following the presentation by Iglesias, a panel will be held with the participation of Ines Bustillo, Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Richard Webb, President of the Economic Investigation Institute of the San Martin de Porres University; Jose Manuel Salazar, head of the OAS Office for Trade, Growth and Competitiveness; and Robert Devlin, head of the IDB Integration Department. Irene Klinger, Director of the OAS Department of Communications and External Relations and coordinator of the Lecture Series of the Americas, will moderate.

The Iglesias presentation will be broadcast live by Internet, radio and television (please find technical information below). The panel will be rebroadcast at the same time on February 15, 2005.


WHAT: Conference of the Lecture Series of the Americas featuring Enrique Iglesias.


WHEN: Tuesday, February 8
3:00 p.m. EST

WHERE: OAS Headquarters
17th Street & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, D.C.

TECHNICAL BULLETIN


A) LIVE BROADCAST


TELEVISION
To down-link the signal from satellite:
NEWSKIES 806
319.5 Degrees East
DL Freq: 4123.25 Mhz
L Band DL Freq: 1026.75 MHz
FEC: 3/4
Symbol Rate: 8.90 MS/sNetwork ID: 2


RADIO
To down-link the signal from satellite:
NEWSKIES
40.5 deg W, 319.5 deg E. LA NET, WHA Region
Band: C/Downlink Freq. Network ID: 2
FEC Rate: ¾ Video Standard:
525, NTSC
Symbol Rate: 8.90 ms/S C Band L.O. 5150 mHZ
Polarity H, Receive polarity is RHC.


WEBCAST
The OAS website will provide a live webcast of the Lecture Series of the Americas at www.oas.org by clicking at Live Transmission.

The webcast will be provided in the four official OAS languages (English, French, Portuguese and Spanish).


VIDEOS (on demand) will also be available through: http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosondemand/home_spa/videos.asp


B) RE-BROADCAST


The lecture will be re-broadcasted through a number of cable and satellite networks; among then are Hispanic International Television Network (HITN-TV) and EDUSAT.


There will be a photo opportunity immediately before the start of the program


For more information please contact:
Mario Martinez y Palacios Mmartinez@oas.org
Tel. (202) 458-3984

Gabriel Gross GGross@oas.org
Tel. (202) 458-3752


LECTURE SERIES OF THE AMERICAS

Reference: AVI-019/05