On November 8th, the Institutional Relations Section of the Department of External Relations organized an OAS briefing for 17 participants from the Phelps Stokes Fund on “International Strategies for Defense and Security”. The visitors received a tour of the Historic Main Building by Aline Hommes, Specialist, Department of External Relations and a comprehensive OAS briefing by Irene Klinger, Director, Department of External Relations. James Mack, Officer in charge of the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security and Executive Secretary, Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), gave a complete briefing on the specific units of his Department; Carol Fuller, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, gave an articulate briefing on the creation of CICTE and stressed the importance of the work and programs being carried out by the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism.