The on-site Bucharest Conference press room features networked workspace, live video from the main plenary session, audio distribution multiboxes, press conferences, and printed materials including press releases and rush transcripts. Media, including individual cameras, will get access into the plenary sessions on a rotating and space-available basis. Individual video and photo cameras are welcome at the Bucharest Conference for press conferences and interviews. Prior registration is required.
Note: Media registration has been closed as of 9 am, March 28 local Bucharest time.
Bucharest Conference on-site press coverage is by pre-registration only. For registration information, please contact:
William Bohlen, +1 202 745 6691, wbohlen@gmfus.org, or
Elizabeth Boswell Rega, +32(0)2 238 5283, eboswellrega@gmfus.org
TECHNICAL AND LOGISTICAL INFORMATION
The Bucharest Conference April 1-3
~Headliners include: George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, Traian Basescu, Ellen Tauscher, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Hamid Karzai, Valdis Zatlers, Thomas Hendrik Ilves ~
ON-SITE COVERAGE OF THE BUCHAREST CONFERENCE
PRESS REGISTRATION CLOSED
Registration for working press at The Bucharest Conference has been closed as of 9 a.m. on March 28 local Bucharest time. Credentials may be picked up upon arrival to the Bucharest Conference. Press welcome desk opens Tuesday, April 1, at 5 p.m. NOTE: Registered working press must show their NATO accreditation to enter The Bucharest Conference
CONFERENCE LOCATION
Circul Militar National Library (“Biblioteca Militaria Nationala”)
Blvd. Regina Elisabeta,
Sector 1 – Bucharest, Romania
For a detailed map, click here.
PRESS SCHEDULE
A schedule of press room hours and all on-the-record sessions and press conferences is available here.
NOTE: Cameras will be allowed only in the press room as space is available. No cameras will be allowed in the plenary conference room.
FOR USE OF MATERIAL
- All free media material is provided by The German Marshall Fund of the United States as a public service to, and for unrestricted use by, news media and educators. The material may not be used for commercial or promotional purposes.
- Courtesy should be given for use of this material to The German Marshall Fund of the United States in print, onscreen, in text, and verbally in the applicable context.
LIVE STREAMING ON INTERNET and AUDIO FILES AND VIDEO FILES (WMV format) of public sessions and press conferences will be posted at www.buchrestconference.org the same day of each event, as quickly as the material can be processed.
TRANSCRIPTS will be posted in English within several hours of the conclusion of each event via www.bucharestconference.org.
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS will be posted at www.bucharestconference.org throughout the days of the Bucharest Conference. Photographs can be used free of charge for news, public affairs and educational purposes. For high resolution versions, please contact: Matt Wojtkun, mwojtkun@gmfus.org.
AT THE NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT MEDIA CENTER
VIEWING LIVE AT THE PEOPLE’S PALACE
A number of Bucharest Conference sessions from 1-3 April will be shown LIVE on the press room screens at the NATO Bucharest Summit Media Center. Please check with the NATO Press Services Information Center at the Media Center for that schedule.
RECORDING VIDEO/AUDIO OF THE BUCHAREST CONFERENCE AT THE NATO MEDIA CENTER
Video and audio in English, Romanian, and original language of all public sessions of Bucharest Conference can be obtained LIVE through Eurovision distribution at the NATO Bucharest Summit Media Center. For information, please contact Eurovision as detailed in the official NATO Bucharest Summit Second Media Advisory http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2008/p08-043e.html
FOR ROMANIAN TV AND RADIO
All video and audio is offered CLEAN by the German Marshall Fund. Audio is offered in (1) original sound, (2) English language, and (3) Romanian language. To connect to the video and audio in Romanian, please contact NATO Summit Host TV.
AUDIO: The working language of the Bucharest Conference is ENGLISH. The internet live stream will be ENGLISH at www.bucharestconference.org
Free live satellite of entire sessions will be Channel 1: Original sound (international sound), Channel 2: English; Channel 3: Romanian. Daily satellite feeds of video clips will be in English only.
Romanian language is also available via direct arrangement with Eurovision at NATO Media Centre and via direct arrangement with NATO Summit Host TV.