A pre-recorded program to be transmitted on Tuesday, August 2, 2005, via radio, television and Internet will examine the issues discussed during the 7th conference in the monthly Lecture Series of the Americas by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, in his presentation entitled "Hemispheric Integration: An Overview of Challenges and Perspectives."

Those participating in the panel discussion that followed the keynote lecture held at the San Martín de Porres University in Lima, Peru, this past July 15, were Michael Shifter, Vice President for Policy at the Inter-American Dialogue; José Antonio García Belaunde, Advisor to the Andean Community of Nations; and Rafael Roncagliolo of IDEA International. Irene Klinger, Director of the OAS Department of Communications and External Relations and Coordinator of the Lecture Series of the Americas program, moderated the panel discussion.

During the lecture OAS Secretary General Insulza said that "poverty and unemployment are to blame for the problems of governance and instability in Latin American countries."


EVENT: Panel discussion focused on OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza’s speech during the 7th Conference in Lecture of the Americas

WHEN: Tuesday, August 2, 2005
3:00 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Standard Time)


Media organizations interested in down linking the signal may do so using the coordinates that are in the attached Technical Information Bulletin.


TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN
TELEVISION *
To down-link the signal from satellite:
NEWSKIES 806
319.5 Degrees East
DL Freq: 3980.5 MHz
L Band DL Freq: 1169.50 MHz
FEC: 3/4
Symbol Rate: 17.8 MS/s Network ID: 2
Virtual Channel 322
* Satellite frequencies provided courtesy of VOA Television

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 webcast of the panel discussion can be followed live from the OAS website, www.oas.org under Live Transmission. The webcast will be in English and Spanish.

VIDEOS on demand will also be available from the following website: Lecture Series of the Americas http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosondemand/home_spa/videos.asp
For further information please contact:
Mario Martínez y Palacios MMartinez@oas.org, Tel. (202) 458-3984
Gabriel Gross GGross@oas.org, Tel. (202) 458-3752.

Reference: AVI-089/05