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[Max Pyziur <pyz@brama.com>]

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Subject: Media Note: Ambassador Carlos Pascual to Speak CSIS and Woodrow Wilson
     Center Joint Event

   Media Note
   Office of the Spokesman
   Washington, DC
   October 19, 2004



   Ambassador Carlos Pascual to Speak at The Center for Strategic and
   International Studies and Woodrow Wilson Center Joint Event


   On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Coordinator for the
   U.S. Department of State's Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization, will
   deliver remarks at an event jointly hosted by the Center for Strategic
   International Studies (CSIS) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
   Scholars. The event is open to the press.

   Ambassador Pascual, who was appointed Coordinator in July, will discuss the
   role and mandate of this new office as well as its planning for future U.S.
   responses to failed, failing and post-conflict countries. The office is charged
   with leading, coordinating, and institutionalizing U.S. Government civilian
   capacity to prevent or prepare for post-conflict situations. It will also
   direct assistance to stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from
   conflict or civil strife so they can reach a sustainable path toward peace,
   democracy and a market economy.

   This will be the office's first public event. Introductory remarks will begin
   at 2:00 p.m. and be delivered by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the
   Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, co-chair of the 9/11
   Commission, and former U.S. Representative.

   Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004
   Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: (CSIS)

   B-1 Conference Room
   1800 K Street, NW

   Note: Press may begin setting up at 11:30 a.m. through the main entrance.

   For more information, please contact the CSIS press office at 202-775-3242. For
   press inquiries about the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization, please
   contact Melanie Anderton at 202-663-0301 or scrs_pa@state.gov. You can also
   visit the S/CRS website at: www.state.gov/s/crs.

   2004/1132
   [End]

   Released on October 19, 2004

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