Ambassador Colin Keating, Executive Director of Security Council Report, gave his talk in a packed Grand Committee Room in the House of Commons, and was chaired by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Vice-Chair of the UN APPG, former British Ambassador to the UN and current chair of UNA-UK.
Biography
Colin Keating was New Zealand’s Ambassador to the UN in New York between 1993 and 1996, serving on the Security Council in 1993 and 1994, and as Council President during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. In 2005, Colin became the founding Executive Director of Security Council Report, an independent non-profit organisation based in New York which produces reports and analysis about the work of the Council.
A key aim of the organisation is to improve the Council’s performance by acting as an objective, accurate and timely information resource for the body’s ten elected, non-permanent members. Click here to view Colin Keating's biography.
Presentation
Ambassador Keating's presentation shed light on the key obstacles to an effective international solution to the crisis in Darfur, and was followed by a stimulating question and answer session. Participants included a number of MPs and Peers, a former Under-Secretary-General of the UN and a large number of ambassadors and high commissioners, including the Ambassador of Sudan to London. "
