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OAS Secretary General to Attend Funeral of President Chávez

  March 7, 2013

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, left Washington, DC, today for Caracas to attend tomorrow’s state funeral for the late President Hugo Chávez.

The leader of the hemispheric organization, who will attend at the invitation of the government of Venezuela, will return to Washington, DC on Saturday.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-077/13