Politics & Government
UN President Coming To Visit Seton Hall University
As far as foreign dignitaries go, they don't get much loftier than the president of the United Nations. Here's how to attend the free event.
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As far as foreign dignitaries go, they don’t get much loftier than the President of the United Nations.
On Friday, Dec. 1, Seton Hall University in South Orange will get a high-profile visit from Miroslav Lajčák, president of the 72nd Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Lajčák, a national of the Republic of Slovakia, has served as his country’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since 2012. His priorities for the UN’s 72nd session include “peace and conflict prevention, migration, a sustainable planet, human dignity and modernizing the United Nations.”
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The free event will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Chancellor’s Suite of the Bishop Dougherty University Center, 400 South Orange Avenue in South Orange. The public is invited but due to limited space, an RSVP is recommended and can be done online here. For those unable to attend, the address will be live streamed at Facebook.com @shudiplomacy.
Seton Hall will be the first stop in a series of visits that Lajčák intends to make to college campuses to “engage with young people and experience a two-way dialogue on the United Nations,” administrators said.
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Lajčák is the latest in long line of distinguished visitors that Seton Hall has hosted as part of its “World Leaders Forum.” Established by the School of Diplomacy in 1999, the series has presented Nobel Peace Prize laureates, former heads of state, public officials and political leaders, journalists and labor leaders, business executives and philanthropists, ambassadors and diplomats.
Among the roster of notable speakers at the series: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tony Blair, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, the late Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and former President of Poland Lech Walesa.
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