UN in Focus Newsbrief N0. 3/2014 Quick Links FES NY Highlights FES NY Publications More About Us April 2014 Dear Friends, With this month's Newsbrief I would like to draw your attention two two very timely upcoming events: On April 9, FES New York, together with the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture(PIJ) will host a half­day conference with high-caliber panelists to debate how weapons of mass destruction can be abolished in the Middle East. The same day, in the context of the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, FES joins with erlassjahr.de and Jubilee USA in a discussion of how to make external debt sustainable. On April 11, FES New York and AFL-CIO join forces in Washington D.C. for an expert group meeting to discuss how to fight inequality and achieve shared prosperity. We then bring that discussion back to New York for the special high-level meeting of ECOSOC with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. As always, I hope this Newsbrief will make for informative reading and I look forward to receiving your feedback. With best wishes from New York, Michèle Auga Director Friedrich Ebert Stiftung- New York Office Upcoming Event:"Advancing a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the