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LATEST MEDIA ALERT
MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2009

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Time Location Assignment Details
10:00 am SCC Security Council Meeting:

-The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Letter dated 12 November 2009 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2009/588)

(UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA,WEBCAST)

11:00 am S-226 Press Conference: H.E. Ms. Ulla Tornaes, Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark, to brief on the Africa Commission's recommendations and initiatives for achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa.
Related Link: www.africacommission.um.dk
(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA,WEBCAST)
12:00 nn S-226 Noon Briefing:

by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.

Guest: Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to brief on his recent trip to Sri Lanka.

The press conference will be webcast live at http://www.un.org/webcast; archived at http://www.un.org/webcast/pressbriefing.html

Related Link: http://www.un.org/News/ossg
(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA,WEBCAST)
12:15 pm 38th Floor Photo Opportunity: H.E. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, former Prime Minister of Japan.
(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA)
1:15 pm Trusteeship Council Special Events:

Presentation of the Recommendations of the African Commission.

Secretary-General to make remarks.

(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA)
3:00 pm S-226 Press Conference: Mr. Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao, Manager of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Area at the Pan American Health Organization; Mr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist at the International Energy Agency; and Mr. Olav Krjoven, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Development Policy at UNDP, to brief on the need for a new climate deal that will tackle energy poverty.
(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA,WEBCAST)
4:30 pm Trusteeship Council Special Events:

Twelfth Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture on "Challenges for sustainable development in a new era: Population, climate change and global security" (organized by the United Nations Population Fund).

Speakers include H.E. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, former Prime Minister of Japan.

(UN PHOTO,UN TV,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA,WEBCAST)