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S-1096-0328-08-00008.Pdf I UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES S. N.V. IOOI7 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL REFERENCE; 2 April 1998 Dear Mr. Picco, On behalf of the Secretary-General, who is currently out of the country, I am writing in reply to your letter to him of 13 March. The Secretary-General is very honoured to have been chosen as this year's recipient of the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic. He will certainly be among distinguished company and is greatly encouraged by this recognition of his efforts and those of the United Nations as a whole. Given the demands of his schedule in October 1998, the Secretary-General would like to know whether it might be possible for a representative to accept the medal on his behalf. I would be grateful for a reply at your convenience. Yours sincerely, /'•/^^"i> S. f IqbaLRiza—--/f I T\ • irffiJi " "" Chef de Cabinet £/ Mr. Giandomenico Picco Vice President Pio Manzu International Research Centre General Secretariat 47040 Verucchio Via Budrio, 35 Italy 57 51 Pjo Manzu International Research Centre E .6 B n f E HE Kofi Annan Secretary General MAR 1 3 1998 United Nations Organizatioi EXECUT VE OFFICE ,., , i ~< Consultative organ of the New York, NY 10017 OFTHESECRETARY-CENERAL Mai'Cil iJ, United Nations and UNIDO General Secretariat 47040 Verucchio Italy Via Budrio, 35 My dear Secretary General, Telephone: 0541-678.139-670.220 I am writing to you in my capacity as Vice Fax: 0541-670.172 Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzu Center in Rimini Italy to inform you that our committee has unanimously agreed to award you the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic on the occasion of our annual event in October 1998. Our Center was established 24 years ago and has since recognized Scientific Committee many personalities including your predecessors, HE Javier Perez De Cuellar, Honorary President Henry A. Kissinger when he was in office, former President George Bush, and former President President Mikhail Gorbachev for their achievements. The late Foreign Minister Hoist of Mikhail Gorbachev Vice President Norway was also awarded the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic Giandomenico Picco as were others. They all came to the Pio Manzu Center to receive their award. Members Every year, we focus on a theme for three days ofjdiscjj.s^onsjmongst Giuliano Amato experts"and personalities fronTall ovefthe vvofrdTThis year, under the title Enrico Boselli Giampiero Cantoni "TheTfonzon. of^^Hemies"'^ve'liit'eTi"d'To'fackle the theme of ecological and Claude Cheysson Luigi Coccioli health-care emergencies in the context of fundamental human values. We Furio Colombo Theo Crosby intend to draw attention to the relationship between ethical systems, on one Giuseppe De Rita Alain De Vulpian hand, and ecological disequilibrium as well as bio-technological and Federico Fellim Enrico Garaci information advances on the other. A reflection on human values, a search for Gary Hart Robert Hormats a new humanistic revolution, a look at the horizons of science as tools to Joseph LaPalombara Wassily Leontiel manage the ecological and health care emergencies predicted for the next Edward N. Luttwak Igor Man century. Gianlranco Miglio John Naisbitt The opening ceremony of our three-day conference will take place in Herbert Ohl Carlo Rubbia Rimmi1_on_Sunday October 18, 1998. It will be broadcast live on Italian Eugenio Silin Giampaolo Sodano television. WeTTaveinviLed other personalities to be present with you that day, Mario Guido Talamona Kenzo Tange including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gro Harlem Brunt land, the Italian Minister Jan Tinbergen Alvin Toffler of Health, Steven Spielberg and Stephen Gould from Harvard. I understand Heidi Toffler Victor Uckmar that the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Walter Veltroni will also be attending Ahmed Zaki Yamam your award ceremony. Sergio Zavoli I hope that you and Mrs. Annan will consider accepting our invitation President, Executive Board and Legal Representative which of course will be at no cost to the United Nations Organization. A draft Silvio Ceccato program is enclosed for your convenience. Secretary General Please accept, my dear Secretary General, the assurances of my highest Gerardo Filiberto Dasi consideration. Research and activities promoting the development . <Ts of interdependence ** ^c. between the geo-political Gianni areas of the world vat and fiscal code number 00282230408 PO Account 16223471 Cassa Rurale Artigiana Valmarecchia A/C 01/00033546/2 CIRSA Forll Chamber of Commerce 157096 11.MFIR.1998 18=47 CENTRO PIO MflNZLJ NR.8B4 P.5 XXIV International Conference promoted by the Pio Manzu Research Centre, Farmindustria, the Villa Maria Foundation and Tosinvest Healthcare The Horizon of Hermes Ecological and health-care emergencies in the context of fundamental human values Rimini - Novell! Theatre and Grand Hotel 17-20 October 1998 (provisional draft for internal use only) updated as on 11 March 1998 47826 Verucchio, Italy - Via Budrio, 35 - Telephone (0541) 678.139 - 670.220 Copyright 1993/Centro Plo Manzti - Vsrucchio (FIN) MR.884 P.6 ll.MflR.1998 18=48 CENTRO PIO MflNZU Foreword The birth of the new millennium human being and his ability to brings with it a whole series of far- interact on a moral footing with the reaching issues regarding the future world around him. of man, the ecological balance of the The launch-pad for this second earth, relations between peoples, humanistic revolution - capable of and, last but not least, our very integrating patchy or antagonistic concept of humanity. Our human value systems, of accommodating history in these years, revolutionised, them so as to release man's creative as it has been, by the rapid potential, and of rediscovering a development of biotechnology and fruitful convergence of different computer science, is undergoing a cultures, periods and interests - must breathtaking acceleration, as necessarily be a new educational evinced, on the one hand, by the project aimed at restoring proper swift decline in established practices dialogue between the individual and and habits and, on the other, by the society, between the northern and dramatic evolution taking place in the southern hemispheres and between biosphere, with its ecological, man and the rest of the universe. climatic and demographic changes. Restoring trust in knowledge - the Mankind is thus faced with an light of Hermes of Renaissance uncertain and subtly shifting horizon tradition - means being able to view as a result of a state of upheaval this horizon with renewed hope. characterised by political and social Believing in man means making situations of major instability where every effort to enhance his ethical sudden changes in conceptual awareness, giving free rein to his frameworks give rise to situations talent and staking everything on his which prove by no means easy to authenticity so that well-being can understand and govern. Now that become a contagious form of energy our millenarian fears have been and generosity can have an allayed, we find ourselves facing irresistible magnetic appeal, capable these uncertainties with an of achieving the right blend of awareness of the risks and the commitment and satisfaction, of opportunities inherent in any phase individual development and public of non-equilibrium. At the same time, virtue. however, we are becoming We need a system of Knowledge increasingly aware of the impelling which embraces potentiality and need for reflection, encompassing moderation, capable of creating for man in his totality so as to itself a fabric which is more elastic strengthen his inner resources and and selectively permeable to the renew the very fabric of his well- flows of change implicit in a being, taking as our starting point computerised, globalised world, those qualities of empathy, creativity, Space and time are shrinking, mutual respect and intellectual undermining the significance of the honesty which alone enable us to concept of hie etnunc which has safeguard the realisation of the dominated the scene of western Copyright lS3S/C«nira Pie Manzto - V&rucchh (RN) P.7 ll.MflR.1998 18=49 CENTRO PIO MflNZU NR.884 Saturday 17 October culture for two thousand years. Our from 10.00-24.00 success in meeting the challenge of tomorrow's world hinges, in fact, on Grand Hotel, Rimini (Marina Centra) our ability to break the bonds of the here and now. The emergencies of the new millennium can be Registration of officially invited successfully tackled only if human guests kind is able to rebuild the foundations of its existence by Conference Secretariat creating a constructive synergy Loretta Valloni between fundamental human values and avant-garde research. 16.00-20.00 Sala Leonardo Grand Hotel Congress Centre Talk show Human and post-human: changing identities on the verge of the new millennium Human chimeras, produced by the fusion of two embryos, eugenics projects related to the development of practices of genetic manipulation of germ cells, the cloning of animals and projects for a human clone, xenotransplants with the formation of human mosaics harbouring cell populations of different species, prosthetic and cybernetic grafts, head transplants, transgenic practices, embryo splitting - these are but a few of the highly controversial developments which the dizzying advances in biotechnology are rapidly transforming into feasible propositions. These issues, which are largely unfamiliar to the lay public, except in their more general, sensationajfstic aspects, are not only bringing about a crisis among those whose job it is to debate their implications in terms of ethics and Copyright 1998/Gentrv Pio ManzCi - Veruochlo (RN) ll.HnR.1998 18:50 CENTRO PIO MANZU NR.884 P.8 Saturday 17 October values, but are seriously science fiction models of the Cyborg undermining our very concept of to the practical use of endocranial humanity. sensors for the blind, particularly if To this we should add that, over the we think that a substantial proportion last decade, there has been a of biological studies today are based substantial philosophical and artistic specifically on the supersenses of revolution regarding the idea of post- animals.
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