Panel discussion: can the U.N. survive?
Opening remarks of Dr. Tlili (continued)
To my left is a former President of the Security Council, Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations. Ambassador Mahbubani served as Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Singapore from 1993 to 1998. He has also been a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard and is the author of numerous articles and a collection of essays published and entitled Can Asians Think?
To the right of Professor Glennon is Ambassador Pierre Schori, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations— both a committed European and a staunch internationalist. Previously, Ambassador Schori served as a member of the European Parliament, as a leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Group, and Spokesperson for the Socialist Group on Foreign Affairs, among other important roles in his career.
To the left of Ambassador Mahbubani is a senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Edward Mortimer. He is the Director of Communications and head of the Speechwriting Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. A native of the United Kingdom, he is on extended leave of absence from the Financial Times, where he was the main foreign affairs commentator from 1987 to 1998. He is the author of a number of books including, most recently, People, Nation and State: the Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Tonight, these four distinguished speakers will, I hope, guide us through the maze of difficult issues facing the United Nations that have been brought to light as a result of the war in Iraq. I have presented the issue to you in moral terms— the same moral terms in which the philosopher I admire most, Emmanuel Kant, wrote Perpetual Peace; the same moral terms used by Roosevelt, and Kofi Annan. Professor Glennon, Ambassador Mahbubani, Ambassador Schori, and Ed Mortimer may have different perspectives on the question. We will listen to them with great interest.
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“Miral: A Palestinian/Israeli Dialogue On and Off Screen”
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
(Reception to follow)
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