MONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2009

(Please note: This schedule is subject to change)

TODAY'S EVENTS
Time Location Assignment Details
10:00 am SCC Security Council Meeting:

The situation in the Great Lakes region

Security Council open sessions are webcast live at http://www.un.org/webcast/; archived at http://www.un.org/webcast/sc.html

Related Link: http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/
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Following the
above event
SCCR Security Council Consultations:

- The situation in the Great Lakes region

- Other matters

10:00 am GA Hall General Assembly:

1. The situation in Afghanistan

(a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/364)

(b) Draft resolution (A/64/L.8)

2. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies

(a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/372)

(b) Draft resolution (A/64/L.12)

3. Culture of peace

(a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/325)

(b) Note by the Secretary-General (A/64/312)

(c) Draft resolutions (A/64/L.5, A/64/L.13, A/64/L.14 and A/64/L.151)

Related Link: http://www.un.org/ga/
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11:00 am 38th Floor Presentation of Credentials:

The Secretary-General will receive letters of appointment and credentials from the following new Permanent Observers and Permanent Representatives:

-H.E. Mr. Roy S. Lee, Asian African Legal Consultative Organization;

-H.E. Mr. Tete Antonio, African Union;

-H.E. Mr. Francisco Carrion Mena (Ecuador);

-H.E. Sir Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom)

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12:00 nn S-226 Noon Briefing:

by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General

Guest: Mr. Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, to provide an update on the climate change negotiations.

The noon briefing is 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
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12:10 pm SC Stakeout Stakeout: Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on the Great Lakes Region; H.E. Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Permanent Representative of the Austrian Mission to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of November.
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6:30 pm Trusteeship Council Film Screening:

"As Seen through These Eyes", a documentary film about prejudice, bigotry and intolerance narrated by Maya Angelou and produced in association with Sundance Channel. A discussion with the film's director, producer and writer, Hilary Helstein, will follow the screening [organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme].

The event is part of the observance of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 9 November 1938.

Related Link: http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/
(INTERNATIONAL MEDIA)

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