(This is USAID’s news advisory about this event Monday in Senator Leahy’s office.  Senator Leahy chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, which oversees the agency, and Leahy was chief Senate sponsor of a resolution passed by the Senate in November urging Administration action to address the coffee crisis.   Contact: David Carle, 202-224-3693)

USAID TO ANNOUNCE COFFEE ALLIANCE WITH GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS
 

ADMINISTRATOR NATSIOS TO DISCUSS
BUSH ADMINISTRATION RESPONSE
TO GLOBAL COFFEE CRISIS

WHAT:           Signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Agency for International Development and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (of Vermont).  The goal of the MOU is to provide assistance to coffee producers affected by the global coffee crisis.

WHEN:           Monday, December 9, 2002
                        3:30 pm

WHERE:        433 Russell Senate Office Building (Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy)
                        The United States Senate               
                        Washington, DC 20510

WHO:             Senator Patrick Leahy;

Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development;
 

Adolfo Franco, Assistant Administrator, USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau;

                        Robert P. Stiller, Chairman, President and CEO, Green Mountain Coffee, Inc.             

Note:               Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the event.

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