PEORIA -- Here's a nice gesture from the Peoria Area World Affairs Council: its program on the United Nations is now free to high school and college students, and presumably their teachers who bring groups of students.
The event, "The United States and the United Nations" is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 19 at Barrack's Cater Inn, 1224 Pioneer Parkway in Peoria.
The speaker, Gillian Sorensen, was the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations under Kofi Anan. She has retired to the post of Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation.
"Her high level experience and access will provide an exciting background for our discussion of the often contentious relations between the US and the UN" the council says.
Students should arrive by 6:45 p.m., and the council would like to know in advance if possible how many will attend, says council executive director Angela Weck, who added others can call her to register, or register at:
http://artstix.artspartners.net
Angela can be reached at (309) 677-2454, or (309) 645-2580 (cell) or through these websites:
www.pawac.org <http://www.pawac.org/
pawac@bradley.edu <mailto:pawac@bradley.edu
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