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"Licence to write" Interview with Shashi Tharoor

Mr. Shashi Tharoor, is perhaps the youngest Under-Secretary-General appointed in the history of the United Nations. Apart from being highly skilled and a fine diplomat, he got his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University at an early age of 22, Mr. Tharoor is also a successful author of 8 novels and has more than a thousand articles published to his credit all (...)

Interview with Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Senegal

It is not often that a Minister of Foreign Affairs comes walking into a Press Conferences without any bodyguards or surrounded by a huge bevy of people, but His Excellency Cheikh Tidian Gadio is one of them. He walked in the rain from his hotel to the Swiss Press Club. Despite his busy schedule, I was fortunate to be granted an interview. So let us just give His Excellency the floor … You (...)

Ban Ki-Moon, candidate for the post of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations

As you might be aware Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, concludes his term at the end of this year. However, the process of electing his success will take place before the end of his term and it’s expected that the Security Council will start the "examine" the different candidates. It is a general practice that the Security Council recommends to the General Assembly the (...)

Interview with Aleu Ayieny Aleu, Minister of State for the Interior, Sudan

You are a Minister of the Government of Sudan. What are your reasons for coming to Geneva today? I actually came here to take part in the Conference on Landmines. As you have correctly pointed out, I am a Minister in the Government of National Unity of Sudan, but this does not stop me from conducting other business. The main purpose of my mission to Geneva was to attend this Conference on (...)

Jan Eliasson, President of the General Assembly and a serving Minister of Foreign Affairs

Jan Eliasson is one of the leading players of diplomacy and foreign relations. We may briefly say that he has served as the Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sweden’s Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, the Secretary-General’s Personal Representative on Iran/Iraq, Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s working group on emergency relief, Vice-President of the Economic and (...)

A distinguished peacemaker in the United Nations - Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun

For almost forty years Ambassador Sahnoun, a native of Algeria, has travelled all over Africa devoting his life to making peace among peoples. He says of himself: I started my career with the African Union and immediately I found myself involved in conflict resolutions. In the 1960s and 1970s, many African countries became independent states. Quickly they found themselves confronted with (...)

Interview with Anders Johnson Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Anders B. Johnsson, a national of Sweden, is the Secretary General of the oldest political international organization in the world, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Anders Johnsson is a quiet, reserved man who speaks about his passion for promoting democracy and helping politicians in each country to build up perhaps the most significant democratic institution the world has ever known-the (...)

Meanwhile: How Tom Luke said ’never again’ By Shashi Tharoor

Whenever I think of Auschwitz - or Birkenau, or Mauthausen, or Theresien stadt, the names that, in this season of Holocaust remembrance, are coming back to haunt us from 60 years ago - I think of a retired Australian United Nations official called Tom Luke. Tom wasn’t born Australian, and he wasn’t born Tom Luke. He was born Tomas Lowenbach in 1926 into a bourgeois Jewish family in Hronov, (...)

Interview with Dr Margarita Cede?o de Fern?ndez, First Lady of the Dominican Republic

She is one of the dynamic women of the 21st Century, not only pretty but also intelligent...The First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Dr Margarita Cede?o de Fern?ndez, despite her tight schedule has kindly accepted to grant us an exclusive interview to talk about being a woman of today, her commitment to the Digital Solidarity Fund and the Common Technology Centres... Q: How does it feel to (...)

Interview with Jonas Gahr St?re, Foreign Minister of Norway (United Nations, October 05)

Three weeks earlier, Jens Stoltenberg had set up his coalition government in Norway. To many, it came as a surprise when Jonas Gahr St?re was appointed as Foreign Minister. This man in his early 40s has never been a professional politician, but has rather excelled in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo where he was the former head of the international department of the Prime Minister’s (...)

POISSON AU GROS SEL ET MOULES CRUSTILLANTES

4 personnes MOULES CRUSTILLANTES 1 kg de moules bouchot 1 ?chalote 1 dl de vin blanc Cr?me Curry Basilic Citron 1 tomate pel?e, ?p?pin?e et coup?e en brunoise Nettoyer les moules. Emincer l’?chalote et la faire suer avec un peu d’huile. Ajouter le vin blanc et chauffer puis faites ouvrir les moules ? feu vif. Les d?coquiller, filtrer le jus et le remettre en casserole. Incorporer 1 demi (...)

MILLE-FEUILLE AUX AUBERGINES ET MOZARELLA ET FILETS DE BAR

MILLE-FEUILLE AUX AUBERGINES ET MOZARELLA Mille-feuille de aubergines et mozzarella 2 aubergines 2 mozzarella 1/2 baguette au levain 4c ? soupe d’huile d’olive truff?e 2c ? soupe de Vinaigre balsamique sel Lavez les aubergines, puis d?taillez-les en rondelles.. Fait-les dorer des deux c?t?s,jusqu’? ce qu’elles soient bien tendres, ?gouttez-les sur un papier absorbant. Coupez les boules de (...)

BROCHETTES DE PORC AUX EPICES & SALADE DE MELON AUX AVOCAT ET MOZZARELLA

BROCHETTES DE PORC AUX EPICES Pour 4 personnes 500 g de filet de porc le jus de 2 citrons 5 gousses de cardamome ? c. ? caf? de cumin ? c. ? caf? de curry 3 gousses d’ail Cayenne 1 brin de thym 1 c. ? s. d’huile La veille, versez dans le bol du mixer le jus de citron avec c. ? s. d’huile, les gousses d’ail pel?es, les graines des cardamome, le Cayenne, le cumin, le curry, le brin de thym (...)

POUPIETTES DE VEAU AUX LEGUMES DE PRINTEMPS

Pour 4 personnes 4 escalopes de veau grandes et tr?s fines 60 g de tomates s?ch?es (conserv?e dans l’huile d’olive) 2 c. ? s. d’ huile de tournesol 60 g de beurre Farce: 150 g de jambon du pays 100 g de mie de pain 4 ?chalotes 4 gousses d’ail 30 g de beurre 10 cl de lait 1 oeuf 1/2 bouquet de persil 1 bouquet d’estragon sel, poivre Garniture: 1,5 kg de petits pois frais 1 botte de petites (...)

Jean Gazarian, un fonctionnaire international optimiste et enthousiaste

Il ?tait parmi les premiers fonctionnaires recrut?s pour travailler ? l’Organisation des Nations Unies. Depuis 1946, il est un t?moin privil?gi? des ?v?nments marquant l’histoire des relations internationales. Il a connu tous les Secr?taires g?n?raux, il a ?cout? les discours flamboyants d’une multitude de chefs d’?tat. Il nous a chaleureusement re?us dans son bureau de l’Institut des Nations (...)

A truly devoted peacekeeper - Interview with Hany Abdel-Aziz

He is an unassuming man whose tall figure is hard to miss if you frequent the Palais des Nations here in Geneva. His name—Hany Abdel-Aziz—and he is the Director of General Services of the UN’s office in Geneva, otherwise known as UNOG. An Egyptian by birth, Hany Abdel-Aziz considers himself above all else an African. Those who know him closely see him as a principled man of honour and a truly (...)

Interview with Edward Mortimer, Director of Communications, United Nations

Edward Mortimer is one of Kofi Annan’s trusted men. For more than eight years this former journalist from The Financial Times, who travelled all over the world in his previous job, has been in charge of making the world understand Kofi Annan’s message in a simple and broad manner. He has a double job-Head of the Speech-Writing Unit and Director of Communi-cations. It’s a challenging position, (...)

The World Meteorological Organization and International Council for Science launch the International Polar Year - 2007-2008 Interview with “WMO Polarman” Eduard Sarukhanian

Eduard Sarukhanian, a Russian national, has dedicated most of his life to Arctic and Antarctic research — either here in Geneva, in Russia or in the Polar regions themselves. His passion is the polar areas and, despite the cold and harsh climate, he talks about it with so much enthusiasm that even a “snow hater” would become a devoted “Polar fan” after spending an hour in his company. Eduard (...)

Interview with Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)

Ross Mountain, a national of New Zealand, was appointed Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in November 2004. In this capacity, he also serves as Resident Co-ordinator and Humanitarian Co-ordinator in charge of the reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the preparations leading up to the election that has just taken place. For more than (...)

CARPACCIO DE FOIE GRAS & LANGOUSTES GRILLEES

CARPACCIO DE FOIE GRAS 4 Personnes 250 g de foie gras cru 4 petits poireaux 1 tranche de jambon de Parme Cerfeuil, gros sel, poivre ? salade fris?e Cuire les poireaux dans de l’eau bouillante sal?e. Les rafra?chir aussit?t pour pr?server leur couleur. D?tailler le jambon en petits morceaux. Tailler les poireaux en fines bandes, Confectionner la vinaigrette. La verser dans une assiette (...)

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The Morpeth Roll, Ireland Identified

In a chronology of Irish history, the first accurate census of Ireland in 1841 records a population of 8,175,124. It coincides with the gigantic goodbye signed by 160,000 people and presented to the popular Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Morpeth, when he left Dublin in 1841. On the first sheet the testimonial contains the names of nobility, first being that of the Duke of Leinster and the rest of the organising committee. Most of the signatories were from the aristocracy, gentry and professional and merchant classes. Further research may show that other socio-economic groups were also (...)

Achill Island: Co. Mayo, Ireland

World Economic Forum: An ILO Perspective 2013

Wagner and Verdi: Bicentenary Year 2013

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