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Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector

United Nations Headquarters, New York 14-15 June 2010

In order to provide input to the preparatory process for the ‘MDG summit’ (High-level Plenary Meeting) on 20-22 September 2010, the UN General Assembly, in resolution A/RES/64/184 has asked the President of its 64th session, H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, to convene ‘Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector’. The Hearings will take place from 14-15 June 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York.

The themes and the speakers for the event can be found here: http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=amdg10&id_article=2432

To assist him in preparing the meeting, the GA President formed a ‘Task Force’ of representatives of civil society and the private sector to advise him on the format and participation at the Hearings. Membership of the Task Force can be viewed at: http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?art...

Following an open online application process, over 760 speaking nominations were received for only 52 available speaking roles. A second online process was open for registration to attend the meeting as an observer from 6 – 23 May.

More information is available in the logistics and background note

http://www.un-ngls.org/IMG/pdf_logistics_and_background.pdf