Secretary's Open Forum - 06.25.2002

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Shai Franklin (202-898-2500)

Jackson-Vanik: NCSJ Chair to Address Secretary of State’s Open Forum Wednesday

June 25, 2002 – NCSJ Chairman Harold Paul Luks will be addressing the Secretary’s Open Forum tomorrow on the Jackson-Vanik Amendment and the former Soviet Union. 

Jackson-Vanik Legislation:

Do human rights and U.S. trade policy go together?
How has the Jackson-Vanik Amendment succeeded?
What comes next?

Wednesday, June 26
11:00-12:00 noon
Room 1105, Harry S Truman Building
Department of State

This event is open to the press and on the record.

Click here for additional information on the Open Forum
Click here for background on Jackson-Vanik

NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia – a voluntary, not-for-profit agency created in 1971, is the mandated central coordinating agency of the organized American Jewish community for policy and activities on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews in the former Soviet Union. NCSJ comprises nearly 50 national organizations and over 300 local federations, community councils and committees across the United States. Through this extensive network, NCSJ mobilizes the resources, energies and talents of millions of U.S. citizens, and also represents the American Jewish community in dealings with similar national groups abroad, and at international fora.

 

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