Sergio Vieira de Mello – International Diplomat America

Memorial Lecture: Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation

10/21/2009

On 17 March 2008 Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, delivered the first Memorial Lecture of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation at the International Conference Centre (CCIG) in Geneva. In partnership with The Graduate Institute of International Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, an Annual Memorial Lecture will be delivered on or around 15 March each year. It coincides with the birthday of Sergio Vieira de Mello who would have been sixty in 2008. Kofi Annan is Patron of the Foundation…

Sergio Vieira de Mello: Resting place in Geneva

02/17/2008

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With the tragedy that continues in Iraq, the fourth anniversary of the attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad falls on 19 August 2007. It is a time to remember the brutal and unwarranted death of colleagues including one of the UN’s charismatic ambassadors of all time. News of an explosion that hit the United Nations building in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 provoked stunned shock around the world. The deaths of UN and other personnel evoked outpouring…