2003IAUC.8202....2G

R. Gonzalez-Riestra, M. Santos-Lleo, L. Tomas, and R. Perez- Martinez, XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, Madrid, report that IGR J17544-2619 was clearly detected (countrate 0.41 counts/s; EPIC-pn + thin filter) in the field-of-view of V4643 Sgr during a 10000-s XMM-Newton observation on Sept. 11.92 UT, five days before the INTEGRAL discovery (Sunyaev et al., http://atel.caltech.edu/?read=190). The source coordinates are R.A. = 17h54m25s.7, Decl. = -26o19'58" (equinox 2000.0; uncertainty about 10"), within the reported INTEGRAL error box. The spectrum was consistent with a hydrogen column density of 1.3 x 10**22 cm**-2. The observed flux in the range 2-10 keV was 4.5 x 10**-12 erg cm**-2 s**-1.