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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL

25 March 2002

Dear Mrs. de Loayza,

Thank you for your letter of 7 February 2002 enclosing a letter to the Secretary-General from His Royal Carlos de Borbon Parma.

The Secretary-General is happy for his lecture to be reproduced in the forthcoming book by His Don Carlos de Borbon Parma. He would be grateful, however, if you could ensure that our standard caveat for the use of book forewords is observed, namely that the Secretary-General's name does not appear on the cover of the book.

I enclose a personal letter from the Secretary-General to His Royal Highness.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Elisabeth Lindenmayer Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General

Mrs. Isabel de Loayza Secretary to His Royal Highness Don Carlos de Borbon Parma Rue des Bouleaux, 16 1170 Brussels Belgium D I f i t 11 APR-92Q02 THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

25 March 2002

Your Royal Highness,

I would like to thank you for your letter of 7 February 2002 recalling our conversation on the felicitous occasion of the wedding of your nephew.

I very much appreciated your kind remarks on my Harvard lecture, and would be happy for you to use the text as an introduction to your book.

Do please return my warm greetings to Carolina. I know she left recently for service with UNMEE, and I hope that she is settling in well there.

Yours sincerely,

"KofTA. Annan

His Royal Highness Don Carlos de Borbon Parma Brussels g B I V B -42002

EXECUTIVE OFFICE' OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

H.E. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Brussels, 7 February 2002

Having had the great pleasure of exchanging a few words with you at the Amstel > Hotel on the occasion of the wedding of my nephew, Wilhelm-Alexander of the Netherlands, I would like to ask you a favour. Would you allow me to use the texyrfthe lecture you gave on 17 September 1998 at Harvard , entitled "The Politics of Globalisation" as the introduction to a book I am writing on the same subject and which should be published at the end of this year?

Maybe the future reader of the book will stop reading after having read the introduction. Not very much more can be said, he will think. In my opinion, those six pages

are the best brief on this subject that I have ever had in my hands and that, after working for nearly twenty years with Harvard University on the problems of development in a world in which nations have become fundamentally interdependent.

One of my daughters, Carolina, who worked with OCHA for nearly three years in New York and now in Asmara, asked me to send you her warm greetings.

Yours very sincerely,

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5:*\A C5>— *^v®\ACMi_ To the Private Secretary cf His , Kofi Annan, Secretary-Genera! of the United Nations United Nations, New York, NY 10017

Brussels, 7 February 2002

Dear ,

On behalf of His Royal Highness, Don Carlos de Borbon Parma, I would be most grateful if you could make sure that His Excellency, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations receives the enclosed letter.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should the need arise.

Thanking you in advance for your kind cooperation, I remain,

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Isabel de Loayza Secretary to His Royal Highness, Don Carlos de Borbon Parma, Rue des Bouleaux, 16 1170 Brussels Belgium