Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Among those speaking at the event are international celebrities, such as Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and lesser-known entrepreneurs with a great idea to change the world.
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In addition, he spoke to Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the UN, and Lord Robertson, secretary-general of NATO.
African ministries of education welcome the Education First initiative of the UN Secretary General, but note the reported drop in external aid to education in the region in the wake of the global economic downturn.
While at U.N. headquarters, the Director-General, will, on 19 January, launch the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010, the flagship report of UNESCO in the field of education, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The conference is organized in support of the International Year for Sustainable Energy for All (2012) and the initiative of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, which sets the goals for improved energy efficiency, doubling the use of renewable energies and universal access to modern energy services by 2030.
Officially launched by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Michel Jarraud, Chair to UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, the event brought together government representatives, local communities, NGOs, UN organizations and eminent specialists in water security to discuss how to harness cooperation at all levels, from the local to the national and international levels, and across all socioeconomic sectors.
Under the leadership of Secretary-General Ban, the UN has opened its doors through unique collaborations such as its Creative Community Outreach Initiative, where key film industry players in Hollywood, New York, and other creative centers around the world are helping to tell the UN story.
In my first five years as Secretary-General, I have nearly doubled the number of women in senior UN positions, at the rank of Assistant Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General.
The United States is the chief backer of the agency, which was formerly known as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Secretary-General has named former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet the Executive Director of UN Women.
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The findings and conclusions of the expert group meeting will also provide the basis for a report of the UN Secretary-General on this theme early in 2003.
Mr Ban Ki-moon has placed education at the top of his agenda in his second term as UN Secretary General, and at the heart of the new global sustainability agenda currently being defined.
The full text of the agreement between the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz.
She noted also the importance of peace and human rights education, underlining that this stands at the heart of the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon's Education First initiative, to be launched on 26 September, where UNESCO is playing a leading role.
In addition, he demanded the right to call scores of high-level witnesses in his defence, including former American president Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany, Kofi Annan, the UN General Secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the former American secretary of state.
Mr Timerman presented his case at meetings with the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and the head of the UN Decolonisation Committee, Diego Morejon.
These issues will be at the heart of a High Level Debate on the Culture of Peace and Non Violence organized by UNESCO, in the presence of the UN Secretary-General, UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser and prominent intellectuals and peace advocates, including Wole Soyinka, Elie Wiesel and Forrest Whittaker.
Mr. HOLMES: I think it's very important that where you can find an African solution, we have an African mediator in the shape of Kofi Annan the former UN Secretary General.
When journalists inquired about the veracity of the Iranian news report, the UN Secretary-General's Office defended its position.
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Such challenges are likely to pale, however, by comparison with the edicts handed down by multilateral tribunals whose deciding votes are, in every instance, selected by international bureaucrats (in the case of one arbitral panel, by the UN Secretary General himself).
And to the disappointment of the greens such as the UN's secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the rich states' undertaking did not specify any short- or medium-term goals on cutting emissions, over which their leaders could have more control.
The objective of this Board will be to advise the UN Secretary General on science-related issues, and enable him to provide advice to UN Member States in these areas.
On the subject of Syria, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said on Friday he was "personally pained and distraught" by the ongoing violence and suffering of civilians.
The Secretary-General tasked Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, the UN specialized agency with a mandate for science, to take the lead on following up on the science-related recommendations of the report.
Michel Jarraud is currently the Chair of UN-Water and has been the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization since 2004.
The acknowledgement that the UN's strategy is fraught with problems comes from Jan Pronk, the special envoy to the WSSD of the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
The UN Secretary-General has entrusted UNESCO with the establishment of a Scientific Advisory Council, in consultation with the wider UN system.
Through this mechanism, the Secretary-General and UN agencies will be provided with comprehensive advice on all of the dimensions of science, technology and innovation for sustainable development, as well as on how to promote cooperation among various UN agencies and with the international scientific community.
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.
The Director-General held a private meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the wake of his trip to Asia.
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