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63rd UNA-UK Annual Conference: Exeter University, 28-30 March 2008 UNA-UK Annual Conference 2008 took place at Exeter University. You can read the report of Lord Hannay, Chair of the UNA-UK Board of Directors, to Annual Conference by clicking 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. Read the Secretary-General's message here. To read the letters from the leaders of the UK's three main political parties, please click below: Prime Minister Gordon Brown One of the key outcomes of this year's Annual Conference was a resolution, unanimously passed, urging the UK government to cease defending distinctions between types of cluster munitions. The resolution calls for a comprehensive treaty banning all forms of the weapon. UNA-UK's Chair, Lord Hannay, has written to the Foreign Secretary to relay this message ahead of the next meeting of the Oslo Process - the Norwegian initiative aiming to set up an international convention outlawing the possession and use of cluster munitions. The UK will be among around 100 states participating in the conference, to take place in Dublin from 19 to 30 May, at which the text of the treaty is expected to be finalised. Click here to read the letter, and here to read the resolution. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote address: Lord Malloch-Brown Lord Malloch-Brown is former UN Deputy Secretary-General and now Foreign Office Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN. Brief biography of Mark Malloch Brown: Lord Malloch-Brown brings to the government extensive international experience, including in the top echelons of the UN, where he served as Deputy Secretary-General, as head of the UN Development Programme, and as Kofi Annan’s chef de cabinet. After stepping down as UN Deputy Secretary-General in 2006, he briefly took up the role of Vice-Chair of Soros Fund Management. Lord Malloch-Brown worked from 1996 to 1999 at the World Bank, first as Director of External Affairs and subsequently as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for UN Affairs. From 1986 to 1994, he was the lead international partner in a strategic communications management firm, the Sawyer-Miller Group. In the 1980s Lord Malloch-Brown was political correspondent for The Economist. He founded The Economist Development Report and served as its editor from 1983 to 1986. Prior to this he worked for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which included a three-year posting in Thailand, where he was in charge of field operations for Cambodian refugees. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Videos: Lord Malloch-Brown's Keynote Address Click on the image to play the file on this page, or on the link to view a larger version on a new page.
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Read the 2008 UNA-UK Policy Document as agreed at the conference (PDF)
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Annual Conference 2008 © UNA-UK/Benedict Parsons
Annual Conference 2008 © UNA-UK/Benedict Parsons
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