Posted on June 12th, 2007 by Marian Houk
There’s still time, for those of you who are die-hard Shashi Tharoor fans, to catch his come-back as he hits
the lecture trail:
McCloskey Speaker Series with Shashi Tharoor
July 10, 2007
“Globalization, Terrorism and the Human Imagination,” with Shashi Tharoor, award–winning author, former United Nations undersecretary-general for Communications and Public Information, and official candidate of India for the [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Journalists got this information in an exchange with a UN spokesperson at the regular UN Noon Briefing on Monday:
“Question: Shashi Tharoor is scheduled to speak on 1 March at Duke University and it identifies him still as Under-Secretary-General of Information. When does the new head of DPI start?
Spokesperson: I can check the [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
From the Highlights of the UNHQ/NY regular noon briefing:
Chef de Staff Vijay Nambiar announced that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted the offer of resignation of the following senior officials and has conveyed to them his deep appreciation for their services to the United Nations. In making this decision, the Secretary-General has taken into account various [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
DPI has taken the ball and run with it, after the 2005 UN General Assembly resolution “rejecting” Holocaust denial. After all, Shashi Tharoor, DPI’s Under-Secretary-General for “strategic” communications, was part of the engine that brought Holocaust-awareness to the UN, some 60 years after the end of World War two.
It is not completely irrelevant that [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2006 by Marian Houk
In the last few hours of Kofi Annan’s administration as UN Secretary-General, it is worth noting that his main achievements, according to him and his team, were (1) the Millennium Development Goals (which I treat elsewhere on this site), (2) getting the UN Security Council to proclaim that UN Member States have a responsibility to [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Salim Lone watch, Shashi Tharoor watch, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
