PROGRAMME
International Day of Peace
19 September 2003, United Nations, New York
Videoconference in Conference Room 4 - Webcast by UN Television & Web site section
Organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information
in association with The Executive Office of the Secretary-General,
Pathways to Peace & the World Peace Prayer Society
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Musical welcome by Ms. AlySun Panichi,
Youth for Peace
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Introductory remarks by Mr. Shashi Tharoor,
Under-Secretary-General, DPI
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Welcome by Mrs. Nane Annan,
Lawyer, Painter and wife of Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
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Remarks and introduction of UN Messengers of
Peace by Mrs. Gillian Sorensen,
Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Office of
the Secretary-General
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Presentation by Tiffany Lewin at United Nations
Headquarters, New York
Response by Dr. Jane Goodall
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Presentation by Alex Dixon at United Nations
peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)
Response by Mr. Michael Douglas
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Presentation by Mohammad Idrees at United
Nations peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan
(UNAMA)
Response by Ms.Anna Cataldi
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Presentation by Kuwaiti student Mohammed
Al-Ghanim at United Nations Headquarters, N.Y.
Response by Mr. Muhammad Ali
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Presentation by Rwandese student Jacqueline
Murekatete at United Nations Headquarters, N.Y.
Response by Dr. Elie Wiesel
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Exchange of views among youths at UN
Headquarters, NY; UNAMA, Afghanistan;
UNAMSIL, Sierra Leone; UNDOF, Syrian Golan
Heights AND the UN Messengers of Peace.
Moderated by Mrs. Gillian Sorensen
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Dialogue among students in New York and youth at peacekeeping missions.
Moderated by Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief,
Civil Society Service, DPI
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Moment of Silence led by Mr. Nickolai Parker,
International Day of Peace Steering Group;
Ms. Deborah Moldow, World Peace Prayer Society
and Mrs. Monica Willard, Pathways to Peace
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Flag raising ceremony led by Mr. Arthur Romano
and Ms. AlySun Panichi, Youth for Peace
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Closing remarks by Ms. Audrey Kitagawa,
Office of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
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