Paul Heinbecker, June 9, Canadian Foreign Policy....

[Sherilee Diebold-Cooze]

Paul Heinbecker will be appearing at the University of Waterloo on Wednesday
June 9th, 2010 to discuss Canadian foreign policy, his time on the UN
Security Council as well as the recent events in Gaza such as the Israeli
raid on the aid flotilla, followed by a Q & A.  This event will take place
from 2:00-3:30 in DWE 3522 and will be open to all University of Waterloo
students, as well as the wider community.  Please join us for what is sure
to be an interesting and informative event. 

 http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts/documents/PaulHeinbeckerFlyer.pdf

Please direct all inquiries to  <mailto:jessicarussell8 at gmail.com>
jessicarussell8 at gmail.com.

 

Paul Heinbecker, former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to
the United Nations and former Ambassador to Germany, is the Director of the
Laurier Centre for Global Relations, and a Distinguished Fellow,
International Relations, at the  Centre for International Governance
Innovation (CIGI).

>From 1989 to 1992, Heinbecker served as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor and
speechwriter for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and as Assistant Secretary
to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy.

In 1992, he was appointed ambassador to Germany. In the late 1990s, he
organized the task force on the Kosovo conflict, and served as head of the
Canadian delegation to the Climate Change Convention in Kyoto.

In 2000, Heinbecker was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations. There
he was a strong proponent of the International Criminal Court and argued for
compromise in the lead-in to the 2003 attack on Iraq.

 

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