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SEMINAR ON THE RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY

  December 2, 2003

The Organization of American States’ (OAS) Office of External Relations and The George Washington University’s Center for Latin American Issues are jointly hosting a seminar this Thursday on the results of the OAS Special Conference on Security, held in Mexico City in late October.

The two-hour seminar, which includes a “dialogue with the audience,” begins at 10:00 a.m. and will be held in the Ruben Darío Conference Room, at the OAS Building at 1889 F Street NW, Washington, DC. It will be opened by Paraguay’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Luis Chase Plate, Chair of the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security.

Panelists include Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS, Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas; Joseph Tulchin, Director of the Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; Brazilian Ambassador Valter Pecly Moreira; and Mr. Tim Dunn, the U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the OAS.

Jorge Mario Eastman, Advisor to the OAS Secretary General, will moderate the panel discussion, which will cover such topics as new approaches to security in the hemisphere; hemispheric security and the OAS; and the importance of subregional perspectives in building a new hemispheric security architecture.

WHAT: Seminar: Results of Special Conference on Hemispheric Security
WHEN: Thursday, December 4
TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
VENUE: Ruben Darío Conference Room, 8th Floor
OAS General Secretariat Building
1889 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

Reference: AVI-077/03