Fréchette

As Canada’s Louise Fréchette departed the United Nations today after serving for eight years as its first Deputy Secretary-General, Kofi Annan paid tribute to her for leaving behind a more effective Organization.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, appointed to the newly created post in 1998, will be leaving the United Nations early next year to become Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada, the UN spokesman announced today.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to achieving major development goals as well as many of the commitments made at all major United Nations conferences and summits since the 1990s, UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said in anticipation of this week’s World Summit in New York.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette is set to make official visits next week to Switzerland and Italy, where she will attend the official launch in Rome of the Global Compact, an initiative of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to encourage business and labour to support universal principles on human rights, work norms and environmental protection.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today headed to Vancouver for a foundation meeting, to be followed by a speech before the World Tourism Organization in China.

The Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette, met in Brussels today with officials from the European Union for talks on cooperation with the United Nations on crisis management.

With most of the challenges faced by the world related in one way or another to globalization, the international community faces the fundamental choice of collective or individual action in how it deals with those issues, the Deputy United Nations Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette, said today in Poland, where she is kicking off a weeklong visit to Europe.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette will embark next Monday on a weeklong visit to Europe where she is scheduled to meet with various national and regional officials to discuss issues of mutual concern.

Human rights in Afghanistan topped the agenda of activities today by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette as she continued her official visit to the war-ravaged nation.

A dialogue among cultures based on respect for the dignity of all can help to foster peace and international cooperation, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today in an address to a meeting of the Francophonie Organization in Beirut.