(21 October 2011) To mark 66th anniversary of the United Nations, authorities and representatives of agencies of the United Nations System in Chile will celebrate United Nations Day on Monday 24 October, at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago.
United Nations Day 2011 will be dedicated to the memory of Dag Hammarskjöld, the former Secretary General of the United Nations (1953-1961) 50 years since his death. Hammarskjöld died on 18 September 1961 while on an official mission in the Congo.
The event will take place at 11 a.m. and will be led by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, who will deliver the message sent especially for the occasion by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.
Other participants include Eva Zetterberg, Ambassador for Sweden in Chile, and Ove Bring, Professor of International Law, who will give a magisterial conference entitled "Dag Hammarskjöld's perspective of the United Nations and international law".
This will be followed by the inauguration of a memorial monument of the former Secretary General of the United Nations located outside the building for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
At the same time, from 10 a.m. recreational and educational activities will be organized in front of the Latin American School for Social Sciences (FLASCO) -beside ECLAC headquarters- for children at a municipal school in the Municipality of Vitacura and those at the República de Colombia, Santiago, United Nations and Llay-Llay schools. This is the place where the agencies of the United Nations System in Chile will have stands with information documents.
Any queries should be addressed to the ECLAC Public Information and Web Services Section. E-mail: dpisantiago@cepal.org; Telephone: (56 2) 210 2040.
