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Daniel Roth [ Profil ] |
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UN Speaker at Cornell - TOMORROW
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Feb 5th, 2007 - 22:18:12 |
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Anyone want to go with me?
Dan
Cornell hosts former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Gillian Sorensen, who
will speak on issues facing the new secretary-general, Feb. 6
* WHAT: Mario Einaudi Center Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series
* WHERE: Biotechnology Building, Room G10, on the Cornell University campus
* WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m.
* WHO: Gillian Martin Sorensen, former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General
* NOTE: Reporters who need more information about Gillian Sorensen's Feb. 6
presentation should contact Heike Michelsen at the Mario Einaudi Center for
International Studies, (607) 255-8926, or email: hm75 (at) cornell.edu.
Journalists are also invited to an informal roundtable discussion with
Sorensen at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, in the conference room at 153 Uris
Hall. To reserve a place at the Feb. 7 roundtable, contact Joe Schwartz at
the Cornell University Press Relations Office, (607) 254-6235 or email:
bjs54 (at) cornell.edu.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Gillian Martin Sorensen, former U.N. Assistant
Secretary-General and now Senior Advisor at the U.N. Foundation, will give a
talk, "Issues for the new United Nations secretary-general - an American
perspective," at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in Room G10 of Cornell's Biotechnology
Building. Sorensen's visit to Cornell is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi
Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. It is free and open to
the public. During her tenure at the U.N., Sorensen served as assistant
secretary-general for external relations from 1997 to 2003. She also served
as special advisor for public policy between 1993 and 1996. Prior to her
experience at the U.N., Sorensen served as the New York City commissioner
for the United Nations and consular corps. Her responsibilities included
matters related to diplomatic security and immunity. In the fall of 2002,
during a leave of absence from the U.N., Sorensen also was a Fellow at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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