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Note No. 5968

CONVERSATION ON PEACEKEEPING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION TO TAKE PLACE ON 5 OCTOBER

04/10/2005
Press ReleaseNote No. 5968
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Note to Correspondents


CONVERSATION ON PEACEKEEPING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION TO TAKE PLACE ON 5 OCTOBER


The third in a series of lectures and conversations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld will be held on Wednesday, 05 October 2005 from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium.


Titled “Peacekeeping and conflict resolution:  then and now”, the event will feature a conversation with Lakhdar Brahimi, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General and Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in the office of Mission Support, DPKO.  The discussion will be moderated by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Shashi Tharoor.


The series is being organized by the UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library with the support of the Government of Sweden.


Members of Permanent Missions, Secretariat staff and the media are invited to attend.


For further information contact: Nasra Soud, tel:  212-963-0521.


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