Press Briefing on the Release of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report and the Compact with the Cuban People

Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry will brief Friday, July 7, 2006 at 12 noon in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State on the release of the second report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and the Compact with the Cuban People.
 
The Report and the Compact were presented to the President earlier this week.
 
The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba is co-chaired by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez. 
 
This on-the-record, on-camera briefing is open for press coverage.  Members of the press who do not have a State Department building pass should arrive at the 23rd Street entrance by 10:30 a.m. for clearance through security and access to the briefing room.
 
Media representatives may attend this briefing upon presentation of one of the following: (1) a U.S. Government-issued 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).