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Viewing cable 06PARIS137, UNESCO: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON INVITATION TO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06PARIS137 2006-01-10 09:37 2011-08-24 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Paris
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100937Z Jan 06
UNCLAS PARIS 000137 
 
SIPDIS 
 
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