communique from the jpk support committee

COMMUNIQUE soutienjpk.org

Papeete, December 5, 2007

To all the friends, members and supporters of the Support Committee,

Hosting of our AGM

All members and sympathisers of the Support Committee are cordially invited to our annual general meeting to be held Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 17:30 at the Hotel Sheraton in Fa'aa to deliberate on the following items listed on the agenda :

1. Situation report and contents in the inquiry dossier.
2. Examination of accounts of the association
3. Renewal of office bearers
4. Other business

Rendevouz with the Press

To all our friends residing in France, we remind you of the dissemination on France Inter radio of the programme "Interception" by Benedict Collombat, Sunday, December 16th at 9:10am French time.

France Inter being broadcast live on RFO Polynesia every night (from 22:00 Saturday), the program can also be heard Saturday, Dec. 15 at 22:10am in French Polynesia, day of the tenth anniversary of the death of Jean-Pascal Couraud.

Based on interviews done by Benoît Collombat throughout realization of his report, it should portray particular interests, and it is possible it will attract significant spin-offs in other French media.

Finally, an investigative journalist of the newspaper "Le Monde" with whom we were in close relations for several months, in Polynesia, arrives back in a few days and will conduct on this occasion a story on the disappearance of Jean-Pascal and ongoing investigations. He is scheduled to be present at our general meeting on 11 December.

Thank you for all your support

Philippe Couraud

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