UNAC-Greater Montreal is pleased to invite you to the Conference " The UN and Democraty in Lebanon", given by Mr Michel Duval, Ambassador of Canada Lebanon from 2002 to 2005. The lecture will focus on the the evolution of the role of the United Nations in Lebanon, and on the future for the Lebanon.

Mr. Duval has worked abroad with the Permanent Delegation of Canada to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at the Canadian Embassies in Budapest and in Bonn.  Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York, 1997-2002, he chaired the Working Group of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping. In Ottawa, he has held a number of positions and among them served on as Senior Departmental Assistant to the Minister for External Relations responsible for Development and Head of the NATO Section. 

In 1996, he served as Haiti Coordinator and in 1997 as Director of the International Security and Peacekeeping Division. Mr. Duval holds degrees Université de Montréal and is a graduate of École nationale d'administration, Québec. Since his retirement in 2006, Michel Duval works with the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.

The lecture will be in French. Mr Duval will answer questions in both English and French. 

Wednesday 13 February 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Monastère St-Antoine
1520, Ducharme av., Outremont, Lebanon Room
Parking on Dollard street
Cente communautaire intergénérationnel
Outremont Metro
Free admission

R.S.V.P. : tel : 514-987-3000 Ext. 7621; fax : 514-987-0249; e-mail : acnu@uqam.ca

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