For information only - not an official document

UNIS/MA/126
Vienna, 14 January 2016

MEDIA ADVISORY

The United Nations lnformation Service (UNIS) Vienna

invites you to a

Press Breakfast on 2016 priorities and key events of the

Vienna-based UN organizations and agencies

on

Thursday 21 January 2016 at 11:00

at the

Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria (UNA-Austria)

Hofburg/Stallburg, Reitschulgasse 2/2 (first floor), 1010 Vienna

 Introductory remarks by:

Martin Nesirky
Director, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna

Welcoming remarks by:

Gerhard Pfanzelter
Board member of Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria (UNA-Austria)

Speakers include:

David Dadge
Spokesperson, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Fredrik Dahl
Spokesperson, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Mikhail Evstafyev
Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Gill Tudor
Chief of Communications and Outreach, Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4ALL)

Elisabeth Wächter
Chief of Public Information, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Information on 2016 highlights from other Vienna-based United Nations organizations will also be available at the briefing, including from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Vienna, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) and the Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention - United Nations Environment Programme Vienna (UNEP-ISCC). Representatives of some of these organizations will be present.

Please register for the breakfast by writing to press@unvienna.org by Monday 18 January 2016.

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For further information please contact:

Reka Furtos
Public Information Officer, UNIS Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-83019
Mobile: (+43-699) 1458-3019
Email: reka.furtos[at]unvienna.org

or

Veronika Crowe-Mayerhofer
News and Media Liaison Unit, UNIS Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-3342
Email: press[at]unvienna.org