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JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA TO BE INSTALLED AS OAS SECRETARY GENERAL ON MAY 26

  May 24, 2005

José Miguel Insulza, the Interior Minister of Chile, will be formally installed as Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday, May 26. The swearing-in ceremony will take place during a special session of the OAS Permanent Council . Mr. Insulza will lead the thirty-five country hemispheric organization for five years.



WHAT: Special Permanent Council session to install the new OAS Secretary General, followed by a press conference

WHEN: Thursday, May 26, 2005

TIME: 10:00 a.m.

VENUE: Hall of Americas
OAS Main Building
17th Street & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC. 20006


A Media Center will be set up on the first floor. It will open at 8:00 a.m.

The session is open to the media, and a photo opportunity will precede the swearing-in ceremony. No television cameras will be permitted into the Hall of the Americas, but live pool television transmission of the ceremony will be provided at the Media Center.

Journalists with television, radio and camera equipment must use the “C” Street entrance of the OAS Main Building.

The press conference will be held on the first floor of the OAS Main Building.

Both the swearing-in ceremony and the press conference will be webcast live over the Internet, (www.oea.org).

Reference: AVI-067/05