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19 January 2000 (a.m.) - Opening Plenary
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| Chair/Moderator: Hans van Ginkel, UNU Rector
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| 10:00
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Welcome Remarks
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Hans van Ginkel
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Welcome Remarks
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Hideaki Ueda, Director-General, Department of Multilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Introduction
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Ramesh Thakur, UNU Vice-Rector
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| 10:30
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Keynote Speech:
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Confronting the Millennium: The Future UN
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
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| 11:15
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Questions and Answers
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| 12:00
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Lunch Break
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19 January (p.m.) - 20 January (a.m./p.m.) - Parallel Closed Working Sessions
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| Human Development |
Security |
Governance |
Environment |
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21 January 2000 - Public Plenary
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A Better Life in a Safer World:
The United Nations and Global Governance in the New Millennium
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Chair/Moderator: David Malone, President of the International Peace Academy
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| 09:15
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Opening Remarks
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| Presentations by Group Chairs
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| 09:30
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Human
Development
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Makoto Taniguchi, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
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Commentators
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Walden Bello, University of the Philippines
M.S. Swaminathan, Swaminathan Research Foundation
Anara Tabyshalieva, UNU Visiting Scholar
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| 10:05
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Security
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Andrew Mack, Director, Strategic Planning Unit, Executive
Office of the UN Secretary-General
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Commentators
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Mwesiga Baregu, Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies
Ramiro Piriz Ballon, Ambassador of Uruguay
James T.H. Tang, University of Hong Kong
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| 10:40
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Coffee Break
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| 11:00
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Governance
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Hideo Sato, Senior Adviser to the Rector, UNU
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Commentators
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Samuel Makinda, Murdoch University, Australia
Valeria Merino-Dirani, Corporación Latinoamericana para el Desarrollo, Ecuador
Akiko Yamanaka, Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
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| 11:45
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Environment
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Motoyuki Suzuki, UNU Vice-Rector
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Commentators
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Adel El-Beltagy, International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria
Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Quan Hao, China-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection
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| 12:20
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General Discussion
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| 13:00
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Lunch Break
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| Keynote Speeches - Chair: Hans van Ginkel - Chair: Hans van Ginkel
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| 14:30
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Education
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Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye, Minister (Special Counselor), Senegal, former Rector of the University of Gaston-Berger de Saint-Louis
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| 15:00
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Environment
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Norman Myers, Professor, Oxford University
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| 15:30
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Governance and
Development
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Yoginder Alagh, Member of Parliament, former Minister of State,
India
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| 16:00
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United Nations
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Yasushi Akashi, Chairman of the Japan Centre for Preventive Diplomacy, former UN Under-Secretary General
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| 16:30
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Coffee Break
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| 17:00
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Panel Discussion - Chair: Louise Fréchette
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Akashi, Alagh, Fresco, Myers, Ndiaye, van Ginkel
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| 17:55
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Closing Remarks by Louise Fréchette
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