[ESSD] Day at the United Nations - New York - September 30, 1998 - General Correspondence
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THE WORLD BANK GROUP ARCHIVES PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AUTHORIZED Folder Title: Conferences and Seminars - Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network [ESSD] Day at the United Nations - New York - September 30, 1998 - General Correspondence Folder ID: 1832591 Series: ESSD Vice President's conference attendance and participation Dates: 5/15/1998 - 9/25/1998 Fonds: Records of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network ISAD Reference Code: WB IBRD/IDA 92 WBIBRD/IDA_92-03 Digitized: 8/31/2019 To cite materials from this archival folder, please follow the following format: [Descriptive name of item], [Folder Title], Folder ID [Folder ID], ISAD(G) Reference Code [Reference Code], [Each Level Label as applicable], World Bank Group Archives, Washington, D.C., United States. The records in this folder were created or received by The World Bank in the course of its business. The records that were created by the staff of The World Bank are subject to the Bank's copyright. Please refer to http://www.worldbank.org/terms-of-use-earchives for full copyright terms of use and disclaimers. THE WORLD BANK Washington, D.C. @ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / International Development Association or The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000 Internet: www.worldbank.org PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AUTHORIZED ArG~i~w~i1832691 R2004-012 Othe#: 20 207HO Cornce and Senfnsr - EnvlronMWmay sad S04MOV Sutalnabit Devlopmt e ESSDI Day a the Unied Nations - New York - September 30, 1 M6- Geral World Bank at the United Nations From: Clare Fleming on 09/25/98 09:48 AM To: Nick Van Praag/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Maria Elena Matheus-Atchley/PersonWorld Bank@WorldBank, M. Caryl Jones-Swahn/Person/World Bank@WorldBank cc: Ian Johnson/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Gloria Davis-SDV/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Alfredo Sfeir-Younis/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Milagros Benedicto/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Julie A. Tumer/Person/World Bank@WorldBank Subject: More on ESSD's visit to the UN Greetings, everybody. Yesterday I sent you an em detailing the status of your upcoming visit next Wednesday, and today you should receive three copies of the briefing book (for Ian, Gloria and Nick). I'd like you to note the following change, however, which isn't yet in your briefing books. We've arranged a meeting for Gloria with John Langmore, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development and Aurelio Fernandez, Chairman of the Commission for Social Development. Because the schedule for your day is pretty tightly packed, we've scheduled this meeting for Gloria at 12:15-12:45 (during which time Ian will meet separately with Patrizio Civili). We regard this as an important meeting. As you know, the preparations are beginning here for the follow-up to the Social Summit. We've begun discussions at the UN with the various players about the Bank's social agenda, which we believe still needs to be highlighted in more detail here to have a more positive impact on the UN's understanding of our work in this arena. Gloria met with both of these men in her last visit here, and they are interested in continuing the dialogue, this time focusing in particular on the Social Summit follow-up. Alfredo met with them yesterday also, and will brief you on that conversation when you arrive on Wednesday morning. A point you might want to note: this year is the follow-up to the Vienna conference on human rights; and we are also shortly facing the 5-year follow-up to the Beijing Conference on women. The UN is seeing the "horizontal" cross-cutting nature of these three concerns - social, gender, human rights - in their consideration in all the follow-ups. When Joanne Salop was here speaking on gender, she also discussed this cross-sectoral link with some of the people involved in the follow-up to Beijing. Caryl, with regard to your attached em about meetings for Ian and Nick on Thursday, Oct. 1, we're happy to arrange those. I'm asking Julianne to follow up with you on arranging these two meetings. Nick, given that you're meeting with the post-conflict people (excellent idea!), we'll also brief Ian and you on some of the crisis response/post-conflict issues when you come on Wednesday. Could you clarify if this means you and Ian are staying for two full days? Are you set with your own agenda for Thursday morning? Should we assume Gloria will go back to Washington after the September 30 events? Regards, Clare M. Caryl Jones-Swahn 09/24/98 11:11 AM Extn: 32874 ESDVP To: Clare Fleming cc: Nick Van Praag Subject: Meetings for Ian Johnson HiClarel Ian and Nick van Praag would like to meet the following persons on Thursday, October 1, in the afternoon - starting at 2:30 pm. Mr. Sergio Veirra de Mello, Under Secretary, OCHA Mr. Bermard Miyet, Under Secretariat for Peacekeeping. It is primarily a courtesy visit, but as Ian is VP for the Post Conflict Unit he would welcome an opportunity to sit and talk to them for half-an-hour or so. Would you be good enough to arrange the meetings for them. If you prefer, I could do it from here, but I don't know their telephone numbers, etc. Many thanks, Caryl Cka Fkw~ng Condr, F.XIUN phwle 2 1-9M6-424C fmz 212-697-70.1D World Bank at the United Nations From: Clare Fleming on 09/24/98 12:33 PM To: Nick Van Praag/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Maria Elena Matheus-Atchley/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, M. Caryl Jones-Swahn/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Milagros Benedicto/PersonlWorld Bank@WorldBank cc: Ian Johnson/PersonWorld Bank@WorldBank, Gloria Davis-SDV/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Alfredo Sfeir-Younis/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Julie A. Tumer/Person/World Bank@WorldBank, Kent McDaniel/Person/World Bank@WorldBank Subject: ESSD Day at the UN, Wednesday, September 30, 1998 - update By way of this em, I'd like to outline where we stand on ESSD Day at the UN next Wednesday so that we can finalize all details. I'm attaching the current agenda and a stage-setting briefing note here, but we will pouch full briefing books with bios, etc., by tonight for Ian, Gloria and Nick. Timing: The day begins here at 10:00 and finishes around 5:30 p.m. Participation: Ian Johnson, Gloria Davis. Nick Van Praag will likely accompany. When you arrive, we will have your passes here for you or will take you to get them if you don't have them. I believe all three of you are already in the system. Agenda: The day will consist of 5 principal events: * Bilateral morning coffee meeting with Ambassadors * Bilateral meeting with Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination, Inter-Agency Affairs Patrizio Civili * UN-wide seminar entitled "At the Nexus of Social and Environmental Policy: Making Sustainable Development Work" * Media interviews (Ian - World Chronicle TV; Gloria - UN Radio) * Bilateral meeting with agency representatives, hosted by UNEP AGENDA.DOBRFBK DO Nick, please let me know if you want me to help arrange any additional media events, or let me know if you've made any arrangements separately, so that we can factor them into the timing. Current status of each event: Ambassador meeting: We are now following up with the missions to confirm acceptances. We can anticipate probably 15-20 Ambassadors from a range of countries, including reps of Small Island States. As you know, however, the General Assembly general debate is in full swing with Presidents and Prime Ministers arriving by the handful, and many of the missions are very caught up in hosting their national leaders. This may affect the attendance a bit. We will provide you with the list of confirmed Ambassadors by Monday COB so that you can anticipate which countries, and therefore which issues, you will be addressing. This is an informal dialogue with this group, however, so no prepared statement is necessary. Instead, opening remarks of about 5 minutes would work well, followed by an invitation to them to share their concerns. Meeting with ASG Civii: Mr. Civili is a long-standing figure at the United Nations and is very supportive of the Bank and its programs. This will be a friendly, relaxed meeting with an informal conversation about the ESSD agenda. You might want to take the opportunity to discuss the ESSD/Bank-UN relationship with him. He has had a very active role in the reform at the UN, and obviously works closely with the agencies on building the relationship between the operational work and the intergovernmental process. We are including his bio in the briefing book. Seminar: We have around 30 acceptances on the seminar already, which indicates based on our past experience that we will have a full house of 100+. For this 1 1/2 hour meeting, we need from ESSD: * presentation: in overhead format if you like (that's the general approach by our VPs) of about 25 minutes which combines both Ian's and Gloria's messages. We always allow a solid hour for dialogue and Q&A. If you would like us to help you print out the overheads on this end, we're happy to do it with lead time. If so, we'd like to get the presentation electronically by Tuesday noon. * handouts: we can distribute whatever you would like, including at the least copies of the presentation. We recommend that you send 120 copies of each. We can do the reproduction of copies of the presentation if we have it by Tuesday noon.