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

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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