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EVALUATING PROGRESS AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS: NEW REPORTS

  January 27, 2003

The Chairman of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS), Attorney General of Mexico Rafael Macedo De La Concha, will release and discuss the 34 National Reports and the Hemispheric Report on Evaluation of Progress in Drug Control 2001- 2002 of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM).

Also participating in the National Press Club’s Newsmaker Event will be the Vice Chairman of CICAD, Deputy Solicitor General of Canada Paul Kennedy; OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi; U.S. Delegate to CICAD Paul Simons; Ministro de Gobierno de Nicaragua, Arturo Harding; Bahamas' MEM Expert, Sir Peter Deveaux Issacs, and CICAD Executive Secretary David Beall.



Press Conference
National Press Club (Zenger Room) 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045.
Wednesday, January 29, at 12:00 PM (Noon)


For more information please contact:

Lucrecia Baracat (202) 458 6824 ([email protected])
or
Luiz Coimbra, (202) 458-3508 ([email protected])

Reference: AVI-004/03