Eritrean Ambassador Addresses Conflict Resolution in Region
Ambassador Araya Desta, permanent representative of Eritrea to the United Nations, will lecture on “Conflict Resolution in the Region of Eritrea” on Wednesday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 100, Robison Hall Annex, Metropolitan Campus.
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Ambassador Desta has been the permanent representative of Eritrea to the United Nations since 2005. He has more than a decade of experience in foreign affairs and relief work. He was his country’s ambassador to the Nordic countries with residence in Stockholm, Sweden, from 2002–05. From 1994–2001, Desta was minister counsellor of Eritrea’s Embassy in Beijing, China.
He has served on the board of the Eritrean Relief Association in Khartom, Sudan, and was executive director and chair of the Eritrean Relief Association - Canada Board of Directors in Ottawa.
Prior to his diplomatic career, Desta headed the Meteorological Application Section in the Ethiopian Meteorological Services in Addis Ababa. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a master’s degree in atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
The ambassador’s lecture is free and open to the public and is part of FDU’s United Nations Pathways Lecture Series. It is presented by the Ambassador’s Club at the United Nations and co-sponsored by The Record and HeraldNews.
For further information call 201-692-7360.
The next U.N. Pathways Lecture will feature Milos Prica, permanent representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations, on Wednesday, November 29, at 6:30 p.m. in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham.
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October 2006
| · | Academic Convocation Opens New Year |
| · | Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Symposium |
| · | Faculty Status Report 2006–2007 |
| · | U.N. Exhibit Features Adams’ Quotes, McCurry’s Photos |
| · | Family Weekend and Homecoming |
| · | Editor Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’ to Speak |
| · | Dining in the Gilded Age |
| · | Eritrean Ambassador Addresses Conflict Resolution in Region |
| · | Division I Hall of Fame Induction |
| · | Faculty/Staff — Update, Announcing, Welcome |
| · | College Happenings |
| · | Spotlight — Charlebois, Kovacs, Philips, Stiner |
| · | This & That |
| · | Photo Stories — New Faculty Welcomed, Copies Plus, Wellness Fair. |
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