ADVISORY/AmCham Cuba Luncheon at National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to feature President of PWN Exhibicon International L.L.C. and President of U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, Inc.

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ADVISORY for ... Tuesday (May 16)

WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

Mr. Peter W. Nathan, President of Westport, Connecticut-based PWN Exhibicon International L.L.C., the company that organized the U.S. Healthcare Exhibition held in Havana, Republic of Cuba, in January 2000, and Mr. John S. Kavulich II, President of the New York City, New York-based U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, Inc., will be the speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club (13th floor, 529 14th Street, N.W.) in Washington, D.C., at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 May 2000,

The luncheon is sponsored by Washington, D.C.-based The American Chamber of Commerce of Cuba in the United States, Inc. (AmCham Cuba). For information, contact Ms. Phoebe Lansdale at telephone [phone]; Facsimile [phone]; or E-mail: [e-mail]

Mr. Nathan will give a presentation about genesis of the U.S. Healthcare Exhibition which included 97 United States-based companies and more than 300 business representatives. Mr. Kavulich will give a presentation on "Cuba Today From A United States Business Perspective."

For additional information on PWN Exhibicon International L.L.C., access http://www.cubaexhibitions.com on the Internet. For additional information about the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, access http://www.cubatrade.org on the Internet.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., licensed PWN Exhibicon International L.L.C., to arrange and to hold an exhibition within Cuba to promote the sale of United States-produced and United States-distributed healthcare products. The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) of the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., licensed the products to be exhibited at the U.S. Healthcare Exhibition. The U.S. Healthcare Exhibition was the single largest grouping of United States-based companies and single largest grouping of representatives of United States companies to visit the Republic of Cuba for a commercial exhibition in more than forty years.

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] Mr. Peter W. Nathan has more than forty-four years of experience in the exhibition industry, and previously organized the first trade shows for United States companies that were held within the People's Republic of China and within the former U.S.S.R. Mr. Nathan is a founding member and director of the Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) and Vice Chairman of the New York Area Chapter of the International Association for Exposition Management (IAEM).

The U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council's purpose is to provide an efficient and sustainable educational structure in which the United States business community may access accurate, consistent, and timely information and analysis on matters and issues of interest regarding United States-Republic of Cuba commercial, economic, and political relations. The U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council does not take positions with respect to United States-Republic of Cuba political relations.