Press Releases 2003

U.S. Delegation Holds Media Availability At OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

10 October 2003

The U.S. delegation will hold a news conference at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) now underway in Warsaw. The members of the U.S. delegation will brief the media on the meeting and discuss OSCE human rights issues such as human trafficking, religious freedom, freedom of the media and anti-Semitism. Attending will be:

• Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
  
• Ambassador Pamela Smith, Head of the U.S. Delegation
  
• Ambassador Stephan Minikes, U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
  
• Dr. Roberta Cohen, Co-Director, Brookings Institute-Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Project on Internal Displacement
  
• Dr. Ruth Wedgwood, Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
  
• Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director of International Jewish Affairs, American Jewish Committee

What: Media availability with the U.S. delegation to the OSCE human rights conference

Where: Press Briefing Room (Ground Floor)
Sofitel Victoria Hotel
Warsaw

When: Thursday, October 16, 2003, 11:00 CORRECTED DATE/TIME!!!

Contact: In-Mi Gosnell
Public Affairs Advisor
U.S. Mission to the OSCE
+43-1-31339-3422 (Vienna)
+43-664-811-7609 (mobile)
GOSNELLIK@state.gov