UN MILLENNIUM
ASSEMBLY : REGIONAL HEARING
ORGANIZED BY THE
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (UN/ECE)
" THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY "
Under the Chairmanship of
His Excellency Mr. Guido
de Marco, President of Malta
7 – 8 July 1999, Room
XX, Palais des Nations, Geneva
Web Site:
http://www.unece.org/press/press_h.htm
Wednesday, 7 July 1999
8:00-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:00 Opening
Statements
Mr. Yves Berthelot,
Executive Secretary, ECE
Mr. Miles Stoby, Assistant
Secretary-General
H.E. Mr. Guido de Marco,
President of Malta
10:00-13:00 Human Rights Segment
Moderator: Ms. Mary Robinson, High
Commissioner for Human Rights
10:00-11:00 Panel Discussion
Mr. Theodoor Van Boven,
Professor, Faculty of Law, Mastricht
University, Netherlands
Mrs. Anne-Marie Lizin,
Senator, Belgium
Mr. Anders B. Johnsson,
Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Geneva
Ms. Limanovska, Executive
Director, National Women Information Center,
Poland
Mr. Robert Davies, Chief
Executive, The Prince of Wales Business
Leaders Forum, United Kingdom
11:00-13:00 Open debate with invited
representatives of civil society and member
States
15:00-18:00 Sustainable
Development Segment
Moderator: Mr. Yves
Berthelot, Executive Secretary, Economic
Commission for Europe
15:00-16:00 Panel discussion
H.E. Ms. Birgitta Dahl,
Speaker of Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden
Ms. Marina Ponti, Mani
Tese, Milan
Ms. Vlasta Stepova,
Vice-President, Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe, Prague
Ms. Lena Kolarska-Bobinska,
Director, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw
Ms. Victoria Elias,
ECO-ACCORD, Moscow
16:00-18:00 Open debate with invited
representatives of civil society and Member
States
Thursday, 8 July 1999
10:00-13:00 Peace and Disarmament
Segment
Moderator : Mr. Vladimir
Petrovsky, Secretary-General, Conference on
Disarmament
10:00-11:00 Panel discussion
Ms. Mari Fitzduff,
Director, Institute for Conflict Resolution
and Ethnicity, United Kingdom
Ms. Maj Brit Theorin,
Chairperson, International Council of
Parliamentarians for Global Action, New York
Ms. Adrien-Paul Ancil,
International Alert, London
Mr. Vladimir Lukin,
Chairman, International Affairs Committee,
State Duma, Moscow
Mr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld,
Director, Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute, Stockholm
11:00-13:00 Open debate with invited
representatives of civil society and member
States
15:00-18:00 Conclusions: Strenghtening the United
Nations
Open debate
Concluding remarks
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Simultaneous interpretation
will be provided in english, french and russian.