[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 17, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 28348]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-9789]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5064]


U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; Closed Meeting

    The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will hold a 
meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 9 a.m. in Room 840 of the U.S. 
Department of State at 301 4th Street, SW., Washington, DC. Pursuant to 
5 U.S.C. 552b [c], the meeting will be closed to the public. During its 
discussion, the Advisory Commission will discuss information that, upon 
premature disclosure, would likely frustrate implementation of proposed 
Department of State action and that relates solely to internal 
personnel rules and practices of the Department of State. The 
Commissioners will review efforts that expand interagency coordination 
of public diplomacy programs to increase their effectiveness in 
communicating with foreign audiences.
    The Commission was reauthorized pursuant to Public Law 106-113 
(H.R. 3194, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000). Its Charter was 
renewed February 18, 2005. 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 Chairman, Barbara M. Barrett of 
Arizona; Harold Pachios of Maine; Jay T. Snyder of New York; Maria 
Sophia Aguirre of Washington, DC; Charles ``Tre'' Evers III of Florida; 
Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley of Washington, DC and Ambassador Penne 
Korth Peacock of Washington, DC.
    For more information, please contact Barbara Barrett at 202-203-
7880.

    Dated: May 11, 2005.
Katherine Yemelyanov,
Deputy Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public 
Diplomacy, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-9789 Filed 5-16-05; 8:45 am]
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