Digital Video Conference with U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe James D. McGee
U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe James D. McGee will brief reporters on the current political impasse in the power-sharing
talks between Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, as well as that country’s
dire humanitarian situation. The on-the-record, on-camera briefing will be via video from Harare, Zimbabwe, on Thursday,
November 20, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in the State Department Press Briefing Room (2209).
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).
Members of the press who do not have a State Department building pass should enter through the 23rd Street lobby for
escort to the Press Briefing Room no later than 9:45 a.m.
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