Media Advisory
2nd Preparatory Meeting Begins for UN Special Session
on Children
Read UNICEF Executive Director Carol
Bellamy's 29 January statement or
visit Special Session
pages.
WHO: More than 2,000 Government and NGO Representatives
WHAT: The second of three preparatory meetings for the 2001
UN Special Session on Children, which will take place September 19-21
in New York.
WHEN: Monday 29 January – Friday 2 February, 2001
WHERE: UN Secretariat, Conference Rooms 1 & 3
WHY: The 2001 UN Special Session on Children in September
will assess global progress on goals set at the groundbreaking 1990
World Summit for Children. More than 3,000 delegates including Heads
of State and a record number of NGO representatives will also embrace
a new agenda for improving the survival, health, education, development
and protection of children and youth.
The second of three preparatory meetings will take place this week
and involve Government delegates, a number of Special Representatives
sent by Heads of State, and representatives of more than 400 NGOs.
The three main items on the agenda for this week are:
Review of progress on the end-decade goals
Review of draft outcome document
Organizational arrangements for the Special Session in September
A third preparatory meeting will be held in June 2001. The first was
held in June 2000.
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For further information, queries, or daily updates,
please contact:
Liza Barrie, UNICEF Media, New York (212) 326-7593
lbarrie@unicef.org
Alfred Ironside, UNICEF Media, New York (212) 326-7261
aironside@unicef.org
Sally Burnheim, UNICEF Media, New York (212) 326-7566
sburnheim@unicef.org
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