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SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES COMPLETE COMPOSITION OF HIGH-LEVEL GROUP FOR ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS, NAMING TWO MORE MEMBERS

14/12/2005
Secretary-GeneralSG/A/962
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES COMPLETE COMPOSITION OF HIGH-LEVEL GROUP


FOR ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS, NAMING TWO MORE MEMBERS


UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is pleased to announce the complete composition of the High-Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations with the two following additional members:


Latin America:  Professor Candido Mendes ( Brazil):  Secretary-General, Académie de la Latinité.


East Asia:  Professor Pan Guang ( China):  Director and Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.


The final list of 20 members of the Group is as follows:


Alliance of Civilizations -- Members of High-level Group


CO-SPONSORS


1. Mr. Federico Mayor ( Spain; co-chair)

President of the “Culture of Peace” Foundation and former Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

2. Prof. Mehmet Aydin ( Turkey; co-chair)

Minister of State of Turkey and Professor of Philosophy

MIDDLE EAST


3. Seyed Mohamed Khatami ( Iran)

Former President of Iran


4. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah ( Qatar)

Consort of the Emir of the State of Qatar and Chairperson of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development


5. Dr. Ismail Serageldin ( Egypt)

President, Bibliotheca Alexandria


NORTH AFRICA


6. Dr. Mohamed Charfi ( Tunisia)

Former Education Minister of Tunisia


7. Mr. Andre Azoulay ( Morocco)

Adviser to His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco

WEST AFRICA


8. Mr. Moustapha Niasse ( Senegal)

Former Prime Minister of Senegal


SOUTHERN AFRICA


9. Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( South Africa)

The Rt. Hon. Archbishop of Cape Town


WEST EUROPE


10. Mr. Hubert Vedrine ( France)

Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of France


11. Ms. Karen Armstrong (United Kingdom)

Historian of Religion


EAST EUROPE


12. Prof. Vitaly Naumkin ( Russian Federation)

President of the International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, and Chair, Moscow State University

NORTH AMERICA


13. Prof. John Esposito (United States)

Founding Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding-Georgetown University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World


14. Rabbi Arthur Schneier (United States)

President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and Senior Rabbi, Park East Synagogue

LATIN AMERICA


15. Mr. Enrique Iglesias ( Uruguay)

Ibero-American Secretary-General and former President of Inter American Development Bank

16. Prof. Candido Mendes ( Brazil)

Secretary-General, Académie de la Latinité

SOUTH ASIA


17. Dr. Nafis Sadik ( Pakistan)

Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General

18. Ms. Shobana Bhartia ( India)

Managing Director of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi


SOUTH-EAST ASIA


19. Mr. Ali Alatas ( Indonesia)

Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia


EAST ASIA


20. Prof. Pan Guang ( China)

Director and Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

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