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Media Advisory No. 4089.10
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Contact:
Treasury Public Affairs (202) 622-2960
USDA Public Affairs (202)720-4623
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TOMORROW: Secretary Vilsack to Join Secretary Geithner, Bill Gates and Key Finance Ministers to Announce International Commitment to Fight Global Hunger and Poverty
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2010 – TOMORROW, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack will join Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, finance ministers from Canada, Spain and South Korea, and other senior government officials to announce an international commitment to fight global hunger and poverty. The announcement, scheduled to follow a closed press meeting at Treasury, comes in advance of this week’s G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and meetings of the International Monetary Fund’s International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee in Washington.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
11 a.m. |
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Tim Geithner, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
James Flaherty, Canadian Minister of Finance
Elena Salgado, Spanish Second Vice President and Minister of Finance
Yoon Jeung-Hyun, South Korean Finance Minister
Robert Zoellick, World Bank President |
| WHAT: |
Announcement on International Commitment to Fight Global Hunger and Poverty |
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11:00 a.m., Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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Cash Room
U.S. Treasury Department
1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
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MEDIA NOTES:
There will be a pooled camera spray at the top of the closed press meeting at approximately 10:00 am.
Expanded Press Pool
TV Pool: TBA
Stills: Open to one photographer each from AP, Reuters, AFP, EPA, Getty, Bloomberg
The announcement will be open press. Media without Treasury press credentials planning to attend must contact Frances Anderson in Treasury’s Office of Public Affairs at frances.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx or (202) 622-2960 with the following information: name, date of birth, Social Security number and country of citizenship. Congressional and White House press passes will not grant you access to Treasury. Please note if you have camera equipment.
US Press interested in attending must RSVP provide the appropriate information to the Department of Treasury ASAP in order to be cleared through security.
Press with camera equipment should arrive at the Moat Entrance (south side of the Treasury building, adjacent to the Hamilton entrance) no later than 9:00 a.m. to allow time for equipment sweeps and escorts to the Cash Room. No vehicles will be permitted onto Treasury grounds; equipment must be carried in. All other media can enter the Treasury building through the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and should allow 45 minutes to clear through security. Final access to the Cash Room will be 10:45 a.m.
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