Note to Correspondents

Dag Hammarskjöld conversation on ‘the international civil servant’

to take place on Thursday, 2 February

Secretary-General, General Assembly President,

Former Under-Secretary-General Brian Urquhart to Participate

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library/Department of Public Information is organizing the fifth and final event of the Lectures and Conversations Series to conclude the year-long commemoration of the centenary of the birth of former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

It will be held on Thursday, 2 February, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in Conference Room 3.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to open the event, titled “The International Civil Servant:  Then and Now, Theory and Practice”.  Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, will interview Brian Urquhart, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, and Jan Eliasson, President of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

The series is being organized with the support of the Government of Sweden.

Members of permanent missions, media and staff are invited.

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

* *** *

For information media • not an official record