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OAS AND GWU HOST CONFERENCE ON ARMS, DRUGS AND TERRORISM

  March 8, 2004

The OAS Office of External Relations and The George Washington University’s Center for Latin American Issues (CLAI) are jointly hosting a conference by a panel of experts to explore how the hemisphere is addressing terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking as closely interrelated problems.

Scheduled for Thursday, March 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the session will examine issues ranging from facilitation to direct trafficking by terrorist organizations to finance operations and how inter-American institutions such as the OAS, the Inter-American Defense College and the Inter-American Commission on Ports are addressing the challenges.

Panelists:

Ambassador Carmen Marina Gutierrez Salazar, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS David Beall, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission
Richard Dawson, Consultant to the Inter-American Committee on Ports
Major General Carl Freeman, President, Inter-American Defense Board
Steven Monblatt, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism

Moderator:

Christopher Hernandez-Roy, Advisor on Security Issues to the OAS Assistant Secretary General

WHAT: Conference of experts on arms, drugs, and terrorism
WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 2004,
TIME: 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Ruben Darío Conference Room, 8th Floor
OAS Building of the Americas
1889 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006

The conference is free and open to the public.
[email protected]; fax: 202-458-6319; phone: 202-458-3720.
The session will also be webcast live, on the Internet, at: www.oas.org.


Reference: AVI-017/04