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Panel to Discuss Global Nuclear Security and Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Panel to Discuss Global Nuclear Security and Preventing Nuclear Terrorism Date and Time: April 6 at 10 a.m.Place: Zenger Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th floor With the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran a concern of many world leaders, particularly those in the United States and Israel, a panel of foreign policy practitioners will speak at a Press Club Newsmaker on global nuclear security and ways to prevent nuclear terrorism. Panel participants will be: • Robert Gallucci, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and former chief U.S. negotiator…
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Chief Gotbaum
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. chief Gotbaum to discuss retirement crisis for baby boomers, need for better pensions Some 10,000 people will retire every day for nearly the next two decades. Most are not ready, and they know it. Josh Gotbaum, director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC), will discuss the looming retirement crisis facing baby boomers who will outlive their savings in the absence of traditional pensions to sustain them. The event begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the club’s Zenger Room. Reporters may participate by teleconference by dialing 800 407-3269.…
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Reps. Rohrabacher and Gohmert to speak on Baluchistan
Reps. Rohrabacher and Gohmert to Speak on Baluchistan U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 12:00 p.m. (noon), Tuesday, March 27, in the Zenger Room of the National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, DC. Reps. Rohrabacher, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in February introduced a House Concurrent Resolution that the Baluchi nation has a historic right to self-determination. Reps. Gohmert and Steve King (R-IA) also signed on as original…
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Dr. Mohammad Nakibur Rahman and Attorney Toby Cadman
Dr. Mohammad Nakibur Rahman, son of Bangladesh opposition leader Motiur Rahman Vizami, and international war crimes attorney Toby Cadman will discuss questions concerning the current international crimes tribunal in Bangladesh against political leaders alleged involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide since 1971.
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Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, President, DC-Based Center for the Study of Islam
Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, President, DC-Based Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, just returned from two months in the Middle East where he was in his native Tunisia and conducted workshops in Egypt, Jordan and Algeria. His topic: “Will Democracy Succeed in the Arab World – Tunisia As a Model?” Contacts: Robert Webb: 703-329-1960, [email protected]. Masmudi: [email protected]
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State Minister for Finance of Portugal, Mr. Vitor Gaspar
The State Minister for Finance of Portugal, Vitor Gaspar, will discuss "the truth about the Portuguese financial situation." Contacts: Minister Gaspar: ANTONIO CARNEIRO JACINTO (Embassy of Portugal)[email protected]
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Pakistan Ambassador Sherry Rehman
The New Pakistan-U.S. RelationshipPakistan Ambassador Sherry Rehman to discuss her country’s new bilateral strategy (Washington, DC) –Pakistan’s Parliament is nearing completion of a review to provide new guidelines for future relationships with the United States. Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S. Sherry Rehman will discuss the new plan during a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference, 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 20, 2012, National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C. Contact: Patti Giglio, NPC Newsmakers Committee/Host 202-903-7869, [email protected]
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Stephen Johnson
The Senior Fellow and Director of The Americas Program Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), STEPHEN JOHNSON, will release and discuss "A MAJOR CSIS REPORT ON IRAN'S INFLUENCE IN THE AMERICAS" Contacts: National Press Club: PETER HICKMAN301/530-1210 (H&O/T&F), 301/367-7711 (CELL), 202/662-7540 (NPC), [email protected] Mr. Johnson: 202/775-3220 (tel), 240/515-1524 (cell) [email protected] EDDIE WALSH: [email protected]
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Andrea Chalupa
Ukrainian-American journalist Andrea Chalupa will discuss how George Orwell's Animal Farm was translated into Ukrainian & distributed free in displaced persons camps in Germany before being discovered by the Soviets, who destroyed as many copies as possible. Miss Chalupa's uncle was given a copy in the camp. She will present a copy to the National Press Club.
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T. Kumar
The Director for International Advocacy of Amnesty International USA,T. Kumar, will discuss the current challenges in Afghanistan and releasea report: "Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The plight of the internally displaced in Afghanistan." The report says about a half million people have fled the war, and that children and women are the worst affected. in january, 28 children were found frozen to death in a camp in Kabul. Additional Contacts: Mr. Kumar: 202/544-0200, [email protected]
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