[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 48966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13884]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5521]


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

    The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will hold a 
meeting on September 15, 2006, in Room 840 at the U.S. Department of 
State at 301 4th St., SW., Washington, DC 20547. The meeting will be 
held from 9 to 10 a.m. The Commissioners will discuss public diplomacy 
issues and progress made in evaluating public diplomacy programs.
    The Commission was reauthorized pursuant to Public Law 109-108. 
(H.R. 2862, Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2006). 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 Pachios of Maine; Ambassador Penne Percy Korth 
of Washington, DC; Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley of Washington, DC; 
Charles ``Tre'' Evers of Florida; Jay T. Snyder of New York; and Maria 
Sophia Aguirre of Washington, DC.
    Seating is limited. To attend the meeting and for more information, 
please contact Carl Chan at (202) 203-7883, or (202) 203-7880.

    Dated: August 14, 2006.
Carl Chan,
Interim Executive Director, ACPD, Department of State.
[FR Doc. E6-13884 Filed 8-21-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4710-11-P