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EX - PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL JORGE SAMPAIO WILL LECTURE AT OAS ON INTEGRATION, TOLERANCE AND DIVERSITY

  September 9, 2009

The ex-president of Portugal and High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Jorge Sampaio, will be the keynote speaker at the XVIII Policy Round Table of the Organization of American States (OAS), which will take place this Friday, September 11, under the name, “Learning to live together: Promoting integration, tolerance and diversity in the Americas.”

Two panels will be conducted following welcoming remarks by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and ex-president Sampaio’s presentation. One of the panels will be devoted to the subject of Ethnic Diversity and Minority Rights, while the other will focus on the Promotion of Tolerance and Social Inclusion.

The first panel will be moderated by the Director of the Department of International Affairs of the OAS, Irene Klinger, and will have as participants: Hazel Law, a judge of the Appellate Court of the Autonomous Region of the Northern Atlantic of Nicaragua, and Óscar Gamboa, the Executive Director of the National Association of Mayors of Municipalities with Afro-descendant Populations of Colombia.

The second panel will be moderated by the Director of the Department of International Law of the OAS, Dante Negro, and will have as participants: Sean C. Carroll, the Program Director of the Club of Madrid; Dina Siegel Vann, the Director of the Latino and Latin American Institute of the American Jewish Committee; and Mark Bromley, the President of the Council for Global Equality. The event will end in a question and answer session.


The XVIII Round Table Hill be transmitted live via the Internet (www.oas.org)



WHAT: XVIII Policy Round Table of the OAS: “Learning to live together: Promoting integration, tolerance and diversity in the Americas”

WHEN: Friday, September 11, 2009, 3 pm (Washington time) 7 pm GMT

WHERE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th Street and Constitution Ave., NW
Washington D.C. 20006

Reference: AVI-052/09