Promoting Security in Haiti

Delegation visit of Haitian-American community leaders

to the United Nations

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

1:45 p.m. Assemble at U.N. visitors' desk, 46th Street and 1st Ave.

2:00 p.m.

Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber

Acting director, Europe and Latin America division, Office of Operations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations

Hermina Van Hoye, political affairs officer, Europe and Latin America division

Rafael Peralta, political affairs officer, Europe and Latin America division

Contact person: Kevin Doyle, (212) 963-8495

 

4:00 p.m.

Amb. Henrique Valle

Acting ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations

Amb. César Mayoral

Ambassador of Argentina to the United Nations

Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations

1 U.N. Plaza, 25th floor

Contact person: Agnes Kovacs, (212) 688-6300, ext. 203

 

5:00 p.m.

Amb. Alejandro Wolff

Deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations

U.S. mission to the United Nations

140 East 45th St., eighth floor

Contact person: Mary Metzger, (212)415 4410

5:30 p.m.

Prem Kumar

Political adviser for Security Council affairs: Latin America and South Asia

U.S. Mission to the United Nations

 


Members of the delegation

James R. Morrell, executive director, Haiti Democracy Project, Washington Jean A. Orneus, community radio, Lawrence, Mass.
Vicki Carney, founding board member of Haiti Democracy Project, Washington Stanley Vincent, Boston Medical Center
Gerald Gourdain, Jr., businessman, Beltsville, Md. Rev. Philius Nicolas, Evangelical Crusade Church, Brooklyn
Ronel Odatte, program director, Radio Tropicale, Brooklyn Dr. Dan Faustin, Alliance of Overseas Haitians, Manhasset, N.Y
Wilby Louis, Union des Jeunes Progressistes, Brooklyn Molton Michel, financial analyst, New York
Dr. Mona Dorsinville-Phanor, lecturer in French at Boston and Brandeis universities, Boston, Mass. Wesley Pierre, Union des Jeunes Progressistes, Brooklyn
Nicole Limage-Amisial, nurse, St. Joseph's Center, Boston Valerie Emmanuel, pre-school teacher, Queens, N.Y.
Marie Jeanne Vincent, former secretary of the chamber of deputies of the Haitian legislature, Boston Dr. Bernier Lauredan, president of the Haitian League, Trenton, N.J.
Rev. Garry Theodate, Golgotha Church, West Roxbury, Mass.
 Leon Pierre, president of Men-Haiti, Philadelphia

.This delegation visit is in fulfillment of the grant proposal "Engaging the Haitian Diaspora in the U.S. Policy Process," funded by the Open Society Institute.