61st UNA-UK Annual Conference: Durham University, 21-23 April 2006

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2006 took place at Durham University's Trevelyan College on 21-23 April. Click here to read the address by UNA-UK Chair Lord Hannay to Annual Conference.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK, and UNA Sri Lanka sent messages of support to Annual Conference 2006. Read these messages here.

UNA-UK conducted an evaluation process in order to collect feedback on the format, content and venue of Annual Conference. Read the complete summary of the feedback received here.

You can read more about about Annual Conference 2006, including a letter from Annual Conference chair Andrew Boakes, in the July-September 2006 issue of New World.

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Keynote address: Shashi Tharoor

Then United Nations Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor delivered the keynote address on 'The future of the UN' in Durham Cathedral on Saturday, 22 April. Attending alongside members of UNA-UK were local parliamentarians, postgraduate students and academics. Click here to read the text of the speech.

Mr Tharoor has a wealth of UN experience, having occupied senior positions in peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs and serving as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General. He headed the UN's Department of Public Information until early 2007. In this capacity he led the reform of one of the largest departments in the UN Secretariat, with some 750 staff and field offices in 63 countries around the world. Click here to read a more comprehensive biography of Shashi Tharoor.

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