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Amb. Valenzuela, head of EC delegation to the UN, to speak on Climate Change at Columbia University

Summary: 28 October 2008, New York - The Alliance Program, the Earth Institute and the European Institute of Columbia University will host an address by Ambassador Fernando M. Valenzuela, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations, on "Climate Change Challenge, the European Perspective"

The Alliance Program, the Earth Institute and the European Institute of Columbia University are pleased to invite you to attend a keynote address by:

Ambassador Fernando M. Valenzuela
Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations

"Climate Change Challenge, the European Perspective"

Introduced by John Coatsworth, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs

Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:00p.m - 8:00p.m.

International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street, 15th floor

Please RSVP to mj2412@columbia.edu

This event is part of a series of events at Columbia University to celebrate the French Presidency of the European Union. France has assumed presidency of the European Union from July 2008 until December 2008.

H.E. Ambassador Fernando M. Valenzuela has been the Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations since 2005. Prior to that, he served as the Political Director of the European Commission and Deputy Director General responsible for CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy) and Multilateral Affairs. Prior to that, this Spanish Diplomat was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Head of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (UNPREDEP), Ambassador of Spain to Canada (1996-1999) and Ambassador of Spain to the United Nations in Geneva (1991-19999).

For more information on the Alliance Program, please visit our website: www.columbia.edu/cu/alliance

  • Ref: PRESS08-014EN
  • EU source: European Commission
  • UN forum: 
  • Date: 28/10/2008


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