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Notice to the Press
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 2, 2002


Special Press Briefing on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan

Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Alan J. Kreczko, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration will hold an on-the-record, on-camera briefing on Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 2:30 p.m. in the Department of State Press Briefing Room (2209), on humanitarian assistance into Afghanistan.

The briefers will discuss the impact of food deliveries on averting a famine in Afghanistan, and the recent distribution of 30,000 radios into Afghanistan under USAID’s and the International Organization Afghanistan Humanitarian Information Program.

Media representatives may cover this event upon presentation of either (1) a U.S. government-issued identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense, or Foreign Press Center), (2) a photo ID issued by the employing media organization, or (3) a letter on official letterhead from their news organization verifying their employment as a journalists, accompanied by an official photo ID (driver’s license or passport).

For further information, please contact USAID Press Office at (202) 712-4320 or the State Department Press Office at (202) 647-2492.


Released on January 2, 2002

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