ATF Announces Speaker List For International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade

International Group includes Law Enforcement and Health Experts

The ICITT conference open sessions will begin promptly on Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 9:45 a.m., in conference room 4 at the United Nations. The roster of speakers and tentative times are as follows:

• Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, New York City Police Department
  9:45 a.m.- 10:05 a.m.
  
  
• Bradley A. Buckles, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
  10:05 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
  
  
• His Excellency L.F. de Seixas Corrêa,
  Brazilian Ambassador to UN Geneva
  Chairman, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  10:25 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
  
  
• Derek Yach, Executive Director,
  Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health,
  World Health Organization
  10:45 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.
  
  
• Kunio Mikuriya, Deputy Secretary General,
  World Customs Organization
  11:05 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.
  
  
• Joy de Beyer, Tobacco Control Coordinator, World Bank
  11:25 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
  
  
• Jimmy Gurulé, Under Secretary for Enforcement,
  United States Treasury Department
  11:45 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
  
  
• Eve Slater, Assistant Secretary for Health,
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  12:05 p.m. - 12:25 p.m.

The ICITT runs from July 30 through August 1, 2002, and will bring together representatives from the law enforcement and revenue offices of 191 Member States of the World Health Organization to discuss and identify best practices to address illicit tobacco trade around the globe. The ICITT will advance the international negotiations of the WHO's proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a new international legal instrument that could address issues as diverse as tobacco advertising and promotion, agricultural diversification, illicit trade, taxes, and subsidies.

For more information, please visit www.atf.treas.gov.