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H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations wishes to meet representatives of NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC or affiliated with DPI.

The meeting will focus on the issues before the 66th session of the General Assembly, particularly the priority areas that the President mentioned in his opening speech, UN reform and revitalisation, improving disaster responses, sustainable development and global prosperity as well as the theme of the High-level debate "The role of mediation in the settlement of disputes by peaceful means," followed by a substantive exchange with the NGOs on the key challenges before the United Nations and the role and contribution of civil society in addressing them.

(The opening speech of the President of the General Assembly can be found here.)

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 4 October 2011, from 3pm to 5pm, at the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, and is organized in collaboration with the OPGA Special Coordinator for Civil Society, the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS), the NGO Branch, DESA, and the NGO Relations, DPI outreach Division 

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