| Notice to the Press Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC September 6, 2007 Special Digital Video Conference Briefing on Reconstruction in Diyala, IraqCounselor John Melvin Jones, Team Leader for the Diyala Province Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), will brief reporters at the Department of State via video from Diyala Province on reconstruction progress in Iraq. This on-the-record, on-camera briefing will take place on Friday, September 7, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT). Reporters will be seated in the State Department’s Press Briefing Room, room 2209; the video feed of the briefing will be of broadcast quality, barring technical difficulties.
Media representatives may attend this briefing upon presentation of the following: (1) a U.S. Government-issued media identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense, or Foreign Press Center), (2) a media-issued photo identification card, or (3) a letter from their employer on letterhead verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied by an official photo identification (driver’s license or passport). For broadcasters interested in a direct feed of the backhaul signal from Iraq, please downlink the following DVIDS signal: DVIDS Sideband 2 Information on the Provincial Reconstruction Teams is available at: http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/20060223_prt_fact_sheet.html 2007/735 |
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