Daily Appointments Schedule for August 24, 2007

SPECIAL BRIEFINGS:
11:00 a.m.   Kristin Hagerstrom, Team Leader, and Major Lee Suttee, USMC, Civil Affairs Chief, both of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) located in Ramadi, Anbar Province, will brief the press via satellite from Anbar Province on reconstruction progress in Ramadi, Iraq.  This on-the-record, on-camera briefing will take place in the State Department’s Press Briefing Room (2209).  The video feed of the briefing will be of broadcast quality, barring technical difficulties.

12:30 p.m.   Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Ambassador Donald A. Mahley and Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Dr. James A. Tegnelia will brief the press on Albania becoming the first nation to complete destruction of its declared chemical weapons stockpile under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, with assistance from the United States and funds through the Nunn-Lugar Chemical Threat Reduction Program.  This briefing will be off-camera, on-the-record.  Reporters will be escorted to the Conference Room from the 23rd Street Lobby at 12:25 p.m.

MORNING PRESS GAGGLE:
9:45 a.m. with Gonzalo Gallegos
Pick up time for all press: 9:40 a.m. from room 2310 / no late escort

THERE WILL NOT BE A DAILY PRESS BRIEFING