| Wednesday, 8 September
2004
Morning Session 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This year’s DPI/NGO Conference aims to support national
efforts around the world to mobilize civil society to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is a Conference
with a practical, substantive and activist agenda arising
from urgent concerns and pressing deadlines to which the United
Nations and more than 3,000 affiliated Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) are deeply committed. on the session's forum
Participate
in the Ongoing Discussion
Your comment may be read on
the conference floor.
Welcoming Address:
Kofi A. Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (by video)
Opening Addresses:
Brown Chimphamba, Acting President of the Fifty-eighth Session
of the United Nations General Assembly
Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications
and Public Information of the United Nations
Keynote Address:
Eveline Herfkens, Executive Coordinator, United Nations Millennium
Development Goals Campaign, United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
NGO Welcome:
Joan Levy, Chair, NGO/DPI Executive Committee
Renate Bloem, President, Conference of NGOs in Consultative
Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)
Joan Kirby, Chair, 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference
FILE DOWNLOADS:
Full Conference Programme: (English)
- (Spanish) - (French)
57th DPI/NGO Conference Opening Session: (RealOne Video - English) -
(Spanish)
Kofi Annan's Message to the Conference: (RealOne Video - English)
Kofi Annan's Message to the Conference: (English - pdf)
Eveline Herfkens' Speech (English - Word Document)
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