Monday, March 22, 2010

UN Media Alert for Tuesday, March 23, 2010

TUESDAY, 23 MARCH 2010

(Please note: This schedule is subject to change)

TODAY'S EVENTS


Time Location Assignment Details

10:00 am Trusteeship Council General Assembly: 76th plenary meeting. Fourth High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development.

Overall theme: 'The Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration: status of implementation and tasks ahead'

Opening remarks by the Secretary-General

Opening address by H.E. Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the General Assembly

Statement by H.E. Mr. Hamidon Ali, President of the Economic and Social Council

Related Link: http://www.un.org/ga/

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11:15 am Dag. Ham. Auditorium Press Conference: by H.E. Mr. Oqil Oqilov, Prime Minister of Tajikistan, on the Millennium Development Goal Awards and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Tajikistan.

Participants include H.E. Mr. Zachary Muburi-Muita, President of the High-Level Committee of South South Cooperation; H.E. Mr. Jean Marie Ehouzou, Permanent Representative of Benin; Mr. Chris Wangro, producer of the MDG Award Committee; Intel; and South South News corporation. Moderator will be Hiro Ueki, United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI).

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12:00 nn Dag. Ham. Auditorium Noon Briefing: by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Related Link: http://www.un.org/News/ossg/
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1:00 pm Dag. Ham. Auditorium Press Conference: by the Coalition for the International Criminal Court on the resumed session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Participants include Ms. Cecilia Nilsson Kleffner, moderator and Head of the Legal Section of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC); Mr. David Donat Cattin, Director of the International Law and Human Rights Programme at Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA); and Mr. Mohammed Ndifuna, Executive Director of Human Rights Network, Uganda.

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3:00 pm Trusteeship Council General Assembly: 77th plenary meeting

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference: High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development

Related Link: http://www.un.org/ga/

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3:00 pm NL Building, Room NL-03000 Photo Opportunity: The Secretary-General with H.E. Ms. Tzipi Livni, Minister of Knesset and Leader of the Opposition, Israel

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3:45 pm NL Building, Room NL-03000 Photo Opportunity: The Secretary-General with Baroness Glenys Kinnock of Holyhead, Minister of State for Africa and United Nations, United Kingdom

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6:30 pm NL Building, CR-2 Film Screening: On the occasion of the 2010 International Day of Remembrance of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March) on the theme 'Expressing our freedom through culture' (co-organized by the Caribbean Community and the African Group, in collaboration with the Department of Public Information (DPI))

Screening of the film: 'Slave routes: Resistance, abolition and creative progress'

Related Link: http://www.dev.un.org/en/events/slaveryremembranceday.

(INTERNATIONAL MEDIA)