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PANEL OF EXPERTS DISCUSS IADB’S PRESIDENT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
PRESENTATION AT THE LECTURE SERIES OF THE AMERICAS

In a pre-recorded program to be transmitted on Tuesday, February 15 2005, via radio, television and Internet a panel of experts will examine the issues discussed last week during the second Lecture Series of the Americas by the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, (IADB) Enrique Iglesias in his presentation entitled “The Americas: From Economic Integration to Full Cooperation.”
Those participating in the panel discussion that followed the keynote lecture held at the Hall of the Americas on February 8, 2004, were Inés Bustillo, Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Richard Webb, President of San Martín de Porres University’s Economic Research Institute; and José Manuel Salazar, Head of the OAS Office of Trade, Growth and Competitiveness. 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.
IADB’s President Enrique Iglesias asserted last Tuesday that trade agreements are a very important vehicle for full cooperation in the Americas, as he headlined the second monthly event in the Lecture Series of the Americas, launched last month by the Organization of American States. He added that “trade agreements can spur full cooperation in the economic, political, social and cultural areas,” citing the European experience as an example.

Media organizations interested down-linking the signal of the transmission may do so using the coordinates in the attached technical bulletin.


EVENT: Panel discussion focused on IADB’s President Enrique Iglesias’s speech at the OAS
WHEN: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
3:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time

The Lecture will be transmitted via satellite and on the Internet http://www.oea.org



TECHNICAL BULLETIN:
A) 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 Organization of American States website will provide a webcast of the panel discussion at www.oas.org by clicking at Live Transmission.

The webcast will be provided in English and Spanish.
VIDEOS (on demand) will also be available through: http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosondemand/home_spa/videos.asp

B) RE-BROADCAST

At a later date, the program will be re-broadcasted through a number of cable and satellite networks; among then are Hispanic International Television Network (HITN-TV), and EDUSAT.


For more information please contact:
Mario Martinez y Palacios [email protected] Tel. (202) 458-3984
Gabriel Gross [email protected] Tel. (202) 458-3752

Reference: AVI-021/05