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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4488]

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; Notice of Meeting

A meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will
be held in Mexico City on November 24, 2003. The Commission will
approve its budget and examine its course of study for FY 2004, in
addition, it will meet with public affairs officers to review public
diplomacy programs in the Western Hemisphere.
The Commission was reauthorized pursuant to Pub. L. 106-113 (H.R.
3194, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000).
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is a bipartisan
Presidentially appointed panel created by Congress in 1948 to provide
oversight of U.S. Government activities intended to understand, inform
and influence foreign publics. The Commission reports its findings and
recommendations to the President, the Congress and the Secretary of
State and the American people. Current Commission members include
Barbara M. Barrett of Arizona, who is the Chairman; Harold C. Pachios
of Maine; Ambassador Penne Percy Korth of Washington, DC; Ambassador
Elizabeth F. Bagley of Washington, DC; Charles ``Tre'' Evers III of
Florida; Jay T. Snyder of New York; and Maria Sophia Aguirre of
Washington, DC.
For more information, please contact Matt Lauer at (202) 203-7880.

Matthew J. Lauer,
Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 03-28221 Filed 11-7-03; 8:45 am]

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