SECRETARY OF STATE RICE:
10:15 a.m. Attend the President’s bilateral with His Excellency Ferenc Gyurcsany, Prime Minister of Hungary
(MEDIA TO BE DETERMINED BY THE WHITE HOUSE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE ZOELLICK:
NO PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
SPECIAL BRIEFINGS:
9:30 a.m. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns will brief the media on background on his October 10-14 trip to Brussels and the Balkans, in the State Department Press Briefing Room, room 2209.
This briefing will be on the record, on camera.
2:15 p.m. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Sheeran Shiner, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, and Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca will brief the media on Secretary Rice’s upcoming trip to Central Asia and Afghanistan in the State Department Briefing Room, room 2209.
This briefing will be on-camera and on-the-record.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
8:30 a.m. Senior Officials Meeting of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza
(OPEN PRESS/CAMERA SPRAY IN LOY HENDERSON AUDITORIUM)
Final call for all press: 8:15 a.m. at the 23rd Street Entrance
THERE WILL BE A DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
(at approximately 12:30 p.m. with Sean McCormack)