[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 5308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01073]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 11323]


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

    The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) will hold a 
virtual public meeting from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m., Thursday, 
February 11, 2021. The meeting will showcase the Commission's 2020 
Comprehensive Annual Report on Public Diplomacy and International 
Broadcasting, and a panel of independent experts will examine the 
challenges and opportunities facing U.S. government public diplomacy in 
2021 and beyond. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the continuously 
evolving information and political environments at home and abroad are 
profoundly affecting public diplomacy policies and practices in the new 
decade.
    This meeting is open to the public, including the media and members 
and staff of governmental and non-governmental organizations. To obtain 
the web conference link and password and to request reasonable 
accommodation, please email ACPD Program Assistant Kristy Zamary at 
[email protected]. Please send any request for reasonable 
accommodation no later than February 4, 2021. Requests received after 
that date will be considered, but might not be possible to fulfill. 
Attendees should plan to enter the web conference waiting room by 11:50 
a.m. to allow for a prompt start. Since 1948, the ACPD has been charged 
with appraising activities intended to understand, inform, and 
influence foreign publics and to increase the understanding of, and 
support for, these same activities. The ACPD conducts research that 
provides honest assessments of public diplomacy efforts, and 
disseminates findings through reports, white papers, and other 
publications. It also holds public symposiums that generate informed 
discussions on public diplomacy issues and events. The Commission 
reports to the President, Secretary of State, and Congress. The Office 
of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs 
supports it.
    For more information on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public 
Diplomacy, please contact Executive Director Vivian S. Walker at 
[email protected] or Senior Advisor Shawn Baxter at 
[email protected], or please visit https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/united-states-advisory-commission-on-public-diplomacy/.

Kristina K. Zamary,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2021-01073 Filed 1-15-21; 8:45 am]
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