18 May 2005

GPPi hosts Foreign Policy Debate on United Nations Reform on May 31st

Kofi's last Tango?

The United Nations reform plans and the German position

 

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

18:00-20:00

In the Schinkelsaal in the Palais am Festungsgraben

Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin

(between the German Historical Museum and the Maxim Gorki Theater)

 

(for description in German please click here)

 

In light of the report "In Larger Freedom" we would like to discuss the actual political manoeuvring room the United Nation has to reform—and what the position of the major players are in this debate.

 

Does Kofi Annan possess the necessary political capital to set the reform in motion? How important is a Security Council seat for Germany? Perhaps more to the point: How could Germany constructively contribute to the Council as a Permanent Member?

 

This and more will be discussed by the following speakers:

 

Friederike Bauer, Author of the new Kofi Annan biography ("Kofi Annan--Ein Leben") and journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung

 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Joscha Schmierer, Member of Foreign Office’s Policy Planning Staff

 

Moderator: Jan Martin Witte, GPPi

 

Please join us afterwards for a small reception.

 

To confirm please send an email to Claudius Furtwängler(cfurtwaengler@globalpublicpolicy.net) or  send a fax to 030-690 88 200.

 

Sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States

 

date: 18-5-2005

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