23736 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 83 /Thursday, April 30, 1998 / Notices

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Global Markets Advisory Committee

Meeting

This is to give notice, pursuant to

Section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, § 10(a),

that the Commodity Futures Trading

Commission’s Global Markets Advisory

Committee will conduct a public

meeting on May 14, 1998 in the first

floor hearing room (Room 1000) of the

Commission’s Washington, D.C.

headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre,

1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington,

D.C. 20581. The meeting will begin at

1:00 p.m. and last until 5:00 p.m. The

agenda will consist of the following:

Agenda

A. Part 1

1. Introductory Remarks by Commissioner

Barbara Pedersen Holum, Chairman,

Global Markets Advisory Committee

2. Report on CFTC Activities of

International Interest by Chairperson

Brooksley Born

3. Discussion of Business Problems

Encountered during Asian Market

Volatility

4. General Discussion of the Impediments

to Conducting Business Abroad

B. Part 2

5. Discussion Regarding Placement of U.S.

Exchanges’ Terminals in Foreign

Countries and Foreign Exchanges’

Terminals in the U.S.

6. Other Topics of Concern to Advisory

Committee Members

The Advisory Committee was created by

the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

for the purpose of receiving advice and

recommendations on the myriad of complex

and novel issues raised by the everincreasing globalization of futures markets.

The purposes and objectives of the Global

Markets Advisory Committee are more fully

set forth in the Charter of the Advisory

Committee.

The meeting is open to the public. The

Chairman of the Advisory Committee,

Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a

fashion that will, in her judgment, facilitate

the orderly conduct of business. Any member

of the public who wishes to file a written

statement with the Advisory Committee

should mail a copy of the statement to the

attention of: The Global Markets Advisory

Commission, Three Lafayette Center, 1155

21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581,

before the meeting. Members of the public

who wish to make oral statements should

also inform Commissioner Holum in writing

at the foregoing address at least three

business days before the meeting. Reasonable

provision will be made, if time permits, for

an oral presentation of no more than five

minutes each in duration.

Issued by the Commission in Washington,

D.C. on April 27, 1998.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 98–11569 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Transmittal No. 98–25]

36(b)(1) Arms Sales Notification

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense

Security Assistance Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is

publishing the unclassified text of a

section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification.

This is published to fulfill the

requirements of section 155 of Public

Law 104–164 dated 21 July 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ms. J. Hurd, DSAA/COMPT/RM, (703)

604–6575.

The following is a copy of a letter to

the Speaker of the House of

Representatives, Transmittal 98–25,

with attached transmittal and policy

justification.

Dated: April 23, 1998.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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