UNESCO: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON INVITATION TO

UNCLAS PARIS 000137

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FROM USMISSION UNESCO PARIS
STATE FOR IO/UNESCO DOUGLAS ROHN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TPHY SENV TSPL EAID UNESCO KSI
SUBJECT: UNESCO: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON INVITATION TO
U.S. OFFICIAL TO LECTURE ON HURRICANE KATRINA



1. This is guidance request, see paragraph three.


2. The UNESCO Secretariat has asked permission via
letter to Ambassador, to invite U.S. official Eugene
Stakhiv (Army Corps of Engineers) to deliver a public
lecture at the 8th Kovacs Colloquium. The Kovacs
colloquium, entitled "Frontiers in Flood Research",
will take place at UNESCO Paris June 30-July 1 2005; it
will be organized jointly by the International
Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and UNESCO.
According to the letter, signed by Water Sciences
Director Andras Szollosi-Nagy, Dr. Stakhiv would be
asked use his lecture to "present the case of the
Katrina Hurricane and its consequences." The letter
was delivered to the Charge by a Water Sciences
Division staffer, who stressed the "non-political"
nature of the colloquium and the lecture.


3. Post wants to confirm previous email message from
IO/UNESCO that UNESCO is welcome to invite Dr. Stakhiv
to deliver a public lecture at the June 30-July 1
Kovacs Colloquium on the consequences of Hurricane
Katrina.
OLIVER