ISS Seminar, Pretoria: South Africa`s Return to the UN Security Council

Date: 2010-11-04

Venue: ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, (Parking in Brooklyn Mall and ABSA court)

RSVP: Job Hlongwa
Tel: (012) 346 9500
Fax: (012) 460 0997
E-mail: Job Hlongwa [email protected]

ISS Seminar: South Africa’s Return to the UN Security Council

With South Africa set to take up its second term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in 2011, many are asking what will be different about South Africa’s efforts on the Security Council in this second term. This seminar will reflect on this question, as well as developments in the Security Council since South Africa first term on the council, and consider what has changed and what challenges remain.      

Speakers:

• Ambassador Colin Keating
• Speaker from the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (to be confirmed)

Ambassador Keating is the Executive Director of the Security Council Report which operates under the auspices of Columbia University and is producing regular reports on the work of the United Nations Security Council. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. Ambassador Keating was formerly a New Zealand diplomat. He served as Legal Adviser of the New Zealand Foreign Ministry and also as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry responsible for management. He was the New Zealand Ambassador to the UN between 1993 and 1996 and served on the Security Council in 1993 and 1994. He was Council president during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and led the Council Mission to Somalia. Also, he chaired the Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Iraq and was actively involved in UN reform, serving as Co-Chair of the General Assembly working group dealing with reform at that time.  Subsequently, he was appointed as the Secretary of Justice of New Zealand.  From 2000-2004 he worked in the private sector as a partner in legal practice.