Secretary General lecture series - Stephen Schlesinger

From the opening remarks given by Secretary General Kofi Annan: 

"This is a period of transition for the United Nations. The handover from one Secretary-General to another is approaching. Many assessments of our work are being written and debated. At such a time, I thought it would be good for us to go back to the beginning, and hear about our origins. For the circumstances of birth -- whether of people, institutions or ideas -- can be quite illuminating, especially if revisited from the vantage point of age and experience. And as you will see, there is far more to the story of our Organization’s founding than most of us know. Our guest today is Stephen Schlesinger, the author of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations. Stephen is an acclaimed historian and expert in foreign policy. In the 1990s, I am pleased to say, he was one of us, serving as an advisor to Habitat. Today he runs the World Policy Institute at the New School University here in New York." 

Lecture Date: 10 November 2006