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UNA-UK Climate Change Conference Series

Join the UNA-UK for a free one-day conference on climate change. Click here for more information and here to register for this event.

UNA-UK partners with UNDP, ODI and APGOOD to host UK launch of the UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007

On Thursday, 19 July UNA-UK co-hosted an event titled 'MDG Midpoint: too little progress?', which served as the UK launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2007, which assesses progress made towards achieving the Goals.

Click here to hear audio recordings and read more about this event

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'The Oxford Handbook on the UN' launched in London and Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The UK launch of 'The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations' took place on 5 July and was hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in its beautiful Locarno Rooms. Chaired by Lord Hannay, the event featured a speech by new FCO Minister Sir Mark Malloch Brown and presentations by Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Ambassador Nick Thorne and Dr Ngaire Woods. Professor Tom Weiss and Sam Daws - the editors of the Handbook - made closing remarks.

Click here to view photos and find out more about the event

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UNA-UK and partners host UK launch of NGO report assessing the Peacebuilding Commission's first year

On Tuesday, 10 July, UNA-UK co-hosted a seminar at the Foreign Press Association in London to present findings from three major NGOs on the UN Peacebuilding Commission's (PBC) first year and its pilot interventions in Sierra Leone and Burundi.

The event served as the UK launch of a major research report by ActionAid, CAFOD and CARE International UK, entitled ‘Consolidating the peace? Views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission’.

Click here to read the report, view photos from the event and find out more

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UNA-UK Co-hosts launch of Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2007

On 26 June, for the second year in a row, UNA-UK partnered with the Canadian High Commission and the Centre on Internation Cooperation at New York University to host the UK Launch event of the Annual Revew of Global Peace Operations at Canada House in Trafalgar Square.

The Review is a project of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, with the support of the Peacekeeping Best Practices Section of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the International Peace Academy.

Click here to read more about the review and the UK Launch event.

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Conference on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament

On 2 December 2006, UNA-UK held a conference on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff, in partnership with UNA Wales and the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Click here for details of the conference and to watch the event online.

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Annual Conference keynote speech: Shashi Tharoor

United Nations Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor delivered the keynote address on 'The future of the UN' in Durham Cathedral on Saturday, 22 April 2006. In addition to members of UNA-UK , local parliamentarians, postgraduate students and academics were in attendance. Click here to read the text of the speech.

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Kofi Annan addresses UNA-UK

In an historic speech on 31 January 2006 at Central Hall Westminster, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered a wide-ranging address to a large audience of UNA-UK members, diplomats and civil society. The event commemorated the 60th anniversary of the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, which was itself held in Central Hall Westminster in January 1946.

Click here to read more about the address and to watch the event online

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In Larger Freedom: public debates

In early 2005 UNA-UK was tasked by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to conduct a public and expert engagement process on UN reform in the lead-up to the UN Millennium Review Summit in September 2005.

A series of national and regional public debates were undertaken to examine the recommendations made in the UN Secretary-General's report, In Larger Freedom. T
he purpose of the debates was to ensure the widest possible public input into the development of the UK government's priorities for the UN World Summit. Click here to find out more about the consultations.

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UK government launch of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel Report

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeared together at the commencement of a half-day conference, at the Banqueting House in Whitehall on 10 February 2005, to mark the government’s launch of the UN High-level Panel report: 'A more secure world: our shared responsibility'.

UNA-UK was given a major role in this high-level event. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and FCO Minister Bill Rammell MP used the occasion to announce that UNA-UK would be conducting, on behalf of the Foreign Office, a series of regional public debates on the report and its recommendations. Click here to read more about the event.

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"Britain has a major role to play"

"If we are to have a UN capable of coping with today’s crises and tomorrow’s...a real effort of statesmanship and confidence-rebuilding is required. And Britain has a major role to play. Yours is a unique position, given your ties of language and friendship with the United States, your link to many developing countries through the Commonwealth, and your role as a leading member of the European Union"

Kofi Annan speaks to UNA-UK. Read more here.

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