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OAS to Host Seminar on Combating Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering

  August 17, 2012

The Organization of American States (OAS) will host, on August 21, a seminar on “Terrorism Financing and Money Laundering, Challenges for the Americas.”

The seminar, organized by the OAS Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) and the OAS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) and the Executive Secretariat of the Financial Action Task Force of South America (GAFISUD), will bring together experts from the OAS, GAFISUD, the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to discuss the universal and regional legal frameworks and the operational framework used in combating terrorist financing and money laundering.

Among the speakers will be Elizabeth Joyce of the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, who will speak on the implementation of relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, and John Tobon, Section Chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who will discuss bulk currency smuggling.

An agenda of the seminar is available here.

This Seminar will be held in the Ruben Dario Conference Room, of the OAS GSB Building (1889 F Street, Washington, DC), on August 21, 2012, from 9:00 EDT to 16:15 EDT.

Those media representatives interested in attending the event, please RSVP to [email protected].

WHAT: Seminar "Terrorism Financing and Money Laundering, Challenges for the Americas"

WHEN: August 21, 2012, from 9:00 to 16:15 EDT (13:00 to 20:15 GMT)

WHERE: Ruben Dario Conference Room
OAS GSB Building
1889 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Reference: AVI-158/12