62nd UNA-UK Annual Conference: Warwick University, 13-15 April 2007

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2007 took place at Warwick University. You can read the report of Lord Hannay, Chair of the UNA-UK Board of Directors, to Annual Conference by clicking here.

On behalf of UNA-UK Annual Conference, Lord Hannay wrote to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan thanking him for his lifetime of commitment to, and achievement at, the United Nations. You can read the letter here.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK sent messages of support to Annual Conference 2007. Read the Secretary-General's message here and here to read the letters from the UK political parties.

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Keynote address: Dame Margaret Anstee

Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General Margaret delivered the Conference keynote address on 'a surivor's tale: a personal account of life and work at the United Nations.

A brief biography:
Margaret Anstee served the United Nations for over four decades, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary-
General. Over the course of her career she lived in 15 countries and visited over 130 on official missions.

From 1952 to 1987 Anstee directed operational programmes of economic and social development in every region of the world. She was then appointed Director-General of the United Nations in Vienna, and until 1992 served concurrently as Head of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and as the coordinator of all UN narcotic drug control programmes. From 1992 to 1993 she was the Secretary-General's Special Representative to Angola and head of the UN peacekeeping mission there (UNAVEM II: the UN Angola Verification Mission). Since leaving the UN in July 1993, Dame Margaret has worked ad honorem as an independent consultant and as a special adviser to the president and government of Bolivia on matters relating to development and international finance. Her book Orphan of the Cold War: the Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process 1992-3 was published in October 1996. Her autobiography, Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations, was published in 2003. Dame Margaret was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and at London University.

Click here to listen to Dame Margret's keynote address in full.
(NOTE: this is a large file and may take some time to download, file size: approx 50mb)

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