the International Year of the Mountains Focus Group
in cooperation with the Department of Public Information
cordially invite you to
Global Launch of the International Year of Mountains 2002
Tuesday, 11 December 2001 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00
p.m.
Conference Room 2, UN Headquarters, New
York
Overland's "Mountain diary"
WELCOMING REMARKS
Adolf Ogi, former President, Swiss Confederation
OPENING REMARKS
Murari Raj Sharma, Acting President, 56th
session of the General Assembly
Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs on behalf of the Secretary-General
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jacques Diouf,
Director-General, FAO
BRIEF STATEMENTS
Kurmanbek Bakiev, Prime
Minister, Kyrgyz Republic
Alan Wagner, Ambassador of Peru to the United States and former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Antonio Gagliardi, Under-Secretary of State for Regional Affairs, Prime
Minister's Office, Italy
Gerhard Pfanzelter, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United
Nations
on behalf of
the Minister for Environment, Austria
Louis Besson, Member of Parliament and Mayor of Chambéry, France
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SUSTAINABILITY IN MOUNTAIN
DEVELOPMENT
Nitin Desai, Moderator
Jim Enote, Leader, Zuni Nation
Yolanda
Kakabadse, former Minister of Environment, Ecuador and
President,
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Uma Lele, Senior
Adviser, World Bank
MUSICAL INTERLUDES
Franz Hackl, contemporary
Austrian composer and trumpet soloist
Members of permanent missions, Secretariat staff,
representatives of non-governmental organizations
and the media are invited
to attend.
