Deputy Secretary-General travels to Vienna and Brussels

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro is currently in Vienna, where she will be meeting with senior United Nations staff as well as Austrian officials, before travelling to Brussels on Wednesday.

Ms. Migiro will attend a meeting on achieving greater coherence and effectiveness across the UN system, convened by the Vienna-based UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

While in Vienna, she will also meet with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik.

After arriving in Brussels on Wednesday, Ms. Migiro will attend an extraordinary joint meeting of the European Parliament’s External Relations and Development Committees, and hold a private meeting with the Crown Prince and Princess of Belgium.

On Thursday, she will attend a high-level conference entitled “Women: Stabilizing an Insecure World,” before travelling back to New York.