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OAS MEETING TO REVIEW SUMMIT IMPLEMENTATION

  March 31, 2003

The Organization of American States will host the twenty eighth meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group, known as the SIRG, on Wednesday, April 2, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Among dignitaries scheduled to address the meeting to review the implementation of Summit of the Americas mandates are OAS Secretary General César Gaviria; the Canadian Prime Minister’s Personal Representative for the Summit of the Americas, Marc Lortie; and Canada’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Paul Durand, who chairs the OAS Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities.

Mr. Lortie will chair the meeting that will review, among other issues, the work of Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities and hear a report by the Joint Working Group of the Partner Institutions with the participation of the World Bank as well as reports from civil society organizations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The meeting will be held at the Hall of the Americas, and the morning session will be open to representatives of civil society and the media.


WHAT: XXVIII meeting of the SIRG

WHEN: Wednesday, April 2, 2003

TIME: 10:00 a.m.

VENUE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17TH Street & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC


The open (morning) session will be webcast live, via the Internet at: www.oas.org.

Reference: AVI-024/03