ISSUE 45: MARCH-MAY 2007
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Secretary-General's role discussed at New York event
The UNU Office at the UN in New York (UNU-ONY) organized a panel discussion entitled UN Leadership and Multilateralism in Times of US Primacy.
Attended by an audience of over 150, the event saw the launch of two new publications: Secretary or General? The UN Secretary-General in World Politics, edited by Simon Chesterman and published by Cambridge University Press, and Beyond the National Interest: Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in Times of US Primacy, a forthcoming book by Jean-Marc Coicaud, to be published by the United States Institute of Peace Press.
The purpose of the book launch was to address the role of the UN Secretary-General, the overall political and institutional context in which he or she works and the process by which the world's highest-ranking diplomat is selected.
The panel was composed of
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Shahi
Tharoor; Director of the United Nations University Office at the UN in New
York, Jean-Marc Coicaud; Director of the New York University School of Law
Singapore Programme, Simon Chesterman; and Executive Director of the
Security Council Report, Colin Keating. The event was moderated by Linda
Fasulo, UN correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
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Can we afford the MDGs?
As part of a series that aims to offer an intimate and informal setting for the exchange of ideas and experiences, UNU-ONY organized a Midday Forum under the heading “Can We Afford to Pay to Achieve the MDGs?”
Following introductory remarks by Peter
J. Marcotullio, Research fellow, UNU-Institute of Advanced Studies, Robert
Vos, Director of Development Policy and Analysis Division, Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), presented a paper entitled
“Constraints to Achieving the MDGs through Domestic Resource
Mobilization.” In his presentation, Vos emphasized the importance of
macroeconomic tradeoffs associated with MDG strategies. The forum was
chaired by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General, UNDESA.
UNU-ONY’s Midday Forum series is an opportunity for academics and
policy-makers from the UN and beyond to meet and discuss important topics
relating to the work of the United Nations.
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