<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers 45 Light";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Univers 45 Light";color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Antarctica 2009: A
Continent in a State of Alert</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Univers 45 Light";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Univers 45 Light";color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">HSH Prince Albert II of
Monaco</span></font></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Univers 45 Light";mso-bidi-font-family:"Univers 45 Light";
color:black">Tuesday, April 13<sup>th</sup></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Univers 45 Light";mso-bidi-font-family:"Univers 45 Light";
color:black"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">4:00 PM</span></sup></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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color:black"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=10">10-250</a></span> (77 Massachusetts Avenue)</span></sup></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">His
Serene Highness, Prince Albert II of Monaco, will be featuring his film, </span></font></span><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Antarctica 2009: A Continent in a State of Alert</span></font></span></i><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, and will be providing remarks about his 17-day trek to meet researchers
and to learn about the scientific projects being conducted in Antarctica. His
journey was facilitated in response to an invitation by the scientific
community to ‘bring Antarctic Science to the public eye’, according to Jose
Retamales, Director of the Chilean Polar Institute. A panel discussion and
question and answer session will follow.</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font></span></span></p><p class="Pa0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">About the Speaker</span></p><p class="Pa0"><span class="A1"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">H.S.H. Prince
Albert </span></font></span></span><span class="A1"><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">has
travelled all over the world including visits to France, Italy, the United
States, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, and China. In these countries he
was received by the principal heads of State and political and economic
leaders. At the same time, he receives credentials from over fifty countries
which now maintain diplomatic relations with the Principality. Since May 1993,
the Prince has led the Monegasque delegation to the General Assembly of the
United Nations. Since the opening of the 48th Session in September 1993 in New
York, His Highness has regularly taken the floor on behalf of the Principality
of Monaco.</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A1"><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">At the 36th Plenary Assembly of the Mediterranean
Science Commission (CIESM) held in the Principality from September 2001,
representatives of the member states unanimously elected Monaco to head the
Commission. The Prince, Head of the Monegasque delegation, chairs this
Commission. Created at the beginning of the century on the initiative of
Prince Albert I, the CIESM is an intergovernmental body with 23 member states,
20 of which are located along the Mediterranean coast. Its objectives are to
promote multilateral international research and facilitate the exchange of
information, in particular between countries on the north and south sides of
the Mediterranean Sea. The CIESM cooperates with 500 specialised institutes.
In October 2004, the Prince presided over the delegation of Monaco in
Strasbourg for the official ceremony of accession of the Principality to the
Council of Europe as the 46th member state of that organization.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></span></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font><span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">H.S.H. Prince Albert II has proved to be
particularly concerned with the Principality’s economic development in a spirit
of ethics and transparency. He is committed to a policy of developing
facilities and conducting major works, enabling in particular the construction
of a new hospital (the Princess Grace General Hospital), the creation of
community facilities (hotel school, new secondary school) on “abandoned”
railway tracks and the launch of many operations, accommodating social housing
and offices.</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#221E1F"></font></p></body></html>