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United Nations Association
“Working Together for Peace, Freedom and Justice”
Kelly.miliziano@sdhc.k12.fl.us Tel: 813-453-5003
From the President’s Desk
Dear Members,
I would like to take this opportunity to tell
you about the many programs our Chap-
ter is working on. First, I would like to
thank his Honorable Maurice Williams,
former United Nations Assistant Secre-
tary-General and Executive Director of
the UN World Food Council, for his pres-
entation, and for all of you who attended
our February program at the lovely Co-
lumbia Restaurant at the St. Petersburg
Pier. It was moving to hear from such a
distinguished individual whose experi-
ences go back before the formation of the
United Nations. He gave us much to think
about as we plan our chapter activities.
April 14, 2009 is the date of the
UNAUSA Tampa Bay Area Global Class-
rooms Model United Nations Conference.
This year marks the first year our chapter
is responsible for facilitating the confer-
ence. As many of you know, the Tampa
Bay Chapter’s luncheon is held in con-
junction with the model UN conference.
Both of these events will be at the Mar-
shall Center, on the Tampa campus of
University of South Florida. I hope you
will attend this luncheon in support of our
Global Classrooms Program. Details can
be found in this newsletter and on our
website.
Mark your calendars! It is with
great enthusiasm that I ask for you help
with our first golf tournament fundraiser
on May 31, 2009 at the Bay Palms Golf
Course on MacDill Airforce Base. You
can participate even if you don’t golf. We
are in need of sponsors, prize donations,
and many volunteers to help. If you would
like to volunteer, please call John at 813-
962-8058.
Regards,
Kelly Miliziano
of the USA
Tampa Bay Chapter
http://www.unatampabay.org
Vol. XXXV No.2 MARCH/APRIL 2009
Ambassador’s Luncheon
You are cordially invited to attend our Annual Ambassador’s Luncheon,
which will be held on Tuesday, April 14, from 11:30 a.m. until at the Marshall Cen-
ter, located at the University of South Florida. The $22 registration fee includes a
buffet lunch.
The featured speaker is Daniel D. Barks, Esquire. Born in Shreveport, Lou-
isiana, he spent the first two years of his life in Hamburg, Germany, where his father
was pursuing a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Hamburg. From the age
of 8, Mr. Barks grew up on the college prep school campus of the Baylor School in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his grandfather and father spanned 60 years of
service as Headmasters of that institution.
He attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he was
awarded a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a Middle Eastern concen-
tration, majoring in political science, with a minor in Asian and Russian language
studies. After college, he entered the United States Navy, serving on active duty
and in the reserves until 2000. Designated a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1986, then
Lieutenant Barks flew the A-6E Intruder Attack Aircraft. After serving in Desert
Shield and Desert Storm, he returned from the Middle East, leaving active duty as a
decorated Lieutenant Commander to pursue a legal degree.
Mr. Barks attended law school at the University of South Carolina, and was
awarded a Juris Doctorate with Honors. He was recruited by the law firm of Speiser
Krause Nolan and Granito in its Metro Washington, DC, offices. Mr. Barks practiced
as a partner with Speiser Krause in the New York and D.C. offices, litigating in the
fields of Aviation and International Law. Mr. Barks worked with a broad range of
aviation concerns and sovereign nations during his time at the firm.
In 2005, Mr. Barks left Speiser Krause to pursue broader interests in both
the public and private sectors relating to security and economic growth in emerging
markets. Since then, Mr. Barks has worked in the field of international consulting,
handling a diverse client base ranging from U.S. Departments of State and Defense
to numerous governments of our NATO Allies, new and old. Mr. Barks currently
works in Russia, South Africa, Jordan, Ukraine, the United States, the Czech Re-
public, Latvia, Austria, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and Belize, both
with commercial and public interests.
RSVP and pay online by April 9, 2009 at
RSVP by email at kelly.miliziano@sdhc.k12.fl.us or phone 813-453-5003
Mail check to: UNA-USA Tampa Bay Chapter
Carol Zavarella
1238 East Kennedy Blvd., Unit 601
Tampa, Florida 33602
For a map and directions to the Marshall Center, University of South Florida
Go to http://msc.usf.edu/directions.htm
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Night of A Thousand Dinners:
Cook for Cartagena!
Help us with our membership drive!
t’s that special time of year again to join the
global community by hosting your very own Night of It's that time of the year again to remind all members, friends and
A Thousand Dinners® (N1KD) event. N1KD is an community of our annual membership drive which will go on until
annual initiative that brings thousands of individuals May 31, 2009.
together to raise awareness and funds for minefield
clearance and survivor assistance. 2009 is a special Two ways to enter the contest:
year for UNA’s Adopt-A-Minefield (AAM) Campaign
as it marks the 10th anniversary of the Campaign as 1) For each member who brings a guest to a UNA event your name
well as the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty.
will go into a drawing for a prize. The more guests you bring the
As planned and in alignment with the 10th anniver-
sary, UNA-USA will successfully cross the finish line
more times your name will be added for the drawing.
and conclude its Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign on
December 31, 2009. 2) Any guest that comes to a UNA event will also be entered into a
There are lots of reasons to celebrate! UNA drawing for a prize.
-USA is very proud of AAM's accomplishments over
the past ten years, accomplishments that were only Two drawings will be held at our Ambassador's Cup Golf Tourna-
made possible because of the unfaltering support of ment on May 31st, in which a “member prize and a guest prize” will
our donors, UNA chapters, friends and advocates be given away for two lucky winners.
around the world. Together, we have raised over
$26 million for mine action, cleared over 1,000
This has already proved to be a very busy and enthusiastic year for
minefields, and helped thousands of survivors re-
gain their lives. Globally, the landmine casualty rate
our chapter. We have been successful in adding to our membership,
fell to 5,000, down from 25,000 when we first we have held a series of interesting and well attended programs and
started. And, 156 countries have signed the Mine we are looking forward to continuing to increase our membership
Ban Treaty—that’s 80% of the world’s nations! Only throughout the Tampa Bay community.
two countries used landmines last year—rather than
the previously widespread use in over 80 countries. Please refer your colleagues, friends, and family as your membership
To celebrate our final year, we made N1KD or recruitment to our membership will allow us to extend our mes-
a bit different. This year, in an effort to galvanize sage deeper within the community and also support the UNA and the
massive action for the 10th Anniversary of the UN organizations.
Treaty, these dinners will not occur on a single night
– or even over a month. Instead, N1KD events will
be hosted from March 1 until December 4, when Feb./March Renewed Members:
world leaders meet in Cartagena, Colombia to re-
view the progress made over the last 10 years of Alana Cefaratti Shirley Gingery
the Mine Ban Treaty. Marjorie Hile Michael Pulos
Now more than ever we need you by our Alexandra Koutsogiannopoulos Christiane Peckdenere
side. Please help us finish out the last year of AAM James Knox
with the greatest show of support yet. Click here to
register to host your own dinner or to donate, and Feb./March New Members:
help the world fulfill one of the most important disar-
mament treaties in history.
Susan Thomas
Here’s to a world free of landmines!
Mireille Torjman
For more information, please visit David Varela
http://www.unausa.org//view.image?Id=498 Kimberly Williams

Equal Sharing of Care Giving
Roslyn S. Linnen of the GFWC,
Woman’s Club of Tarpon Springs at-
tended the 53rd Session of the Commis-
sion on the Status of Women that was
held at the United Nations in New York
from March 2 to March 13, 2009. The
theme was ―Equal Sharing of Care Giv-
ing Between Women and Men Including
in the Context of HIV/AIDS‖. She was a
delegate for the National Council of
Women and also represented the
Women’s Club of Tarpon Springs and
the United Nations Association of
Tampa Bay. The Work Shops that Ros-
lyn attended included women from Af-
rica, Sweden, North and South America,
Japan and many other countries. The
discussions were enlightening and posi-
tive concerning resolutions to the prob-
lems facing women around the world as
they pertain to the theme of the session.
Thank you Roslyn for representing the
Tampa Bay Chapter at this important
conference.
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The UNAUSA Tampa Bay Chapter public. Miramar is

a community within
First Annual Golf Tournament Miches, in the
May 31, 2009 at Bay Palms Golf Complex, province of El
1803 Golf Course Avenue Seibo, one of the
MacDill AFB, FL 33621-1604 poorest provinces
in the Dominican
Funds raised from this event will enable our chapter to Republic. Cur-
contribute to programs and organizations that support rently, the resi-
the fulfillment of the dents of Miramar
Millennium Development Goals. have no estab- Children gathering water at local water
lished water tower in Miches. 04/08
A portion of the proceeds will source. Many
directly benefit Water for Miches gather water flowing from fractures in a distant water tower,
despite this untreated water being a source of disease and
Engineers Without Borders at USF is currently engaging unsuitable to meet the needs of these families. The purpose
in an effort to develop a clean water supply for an underde- of the project is to design and install a potable water source
veloped community in the Dominican Republic. The goal in Miramar capable of meeting World Health Organization
of this project, titled “Water for Miches,” is to bring clean (WHO) standards by providing 20 liters of clean water per
water to the 500 residents of Miramar in the Dominican Re- day to each of these 500 people.

UN Peacekeeping Shortchanged even made noise (ill-advisedly) about creating new UN

Yes, the world is in a financial crisis, and yes, valu-
able projects are losing funding the world over. Some priori-
ties, though, aren't going to diminish in urgency even if it's
hard to find the money to pay for them. Fighting is going to
continue in Congo, Haiti is going to continue to build its nas-
cent government, and Lebanon is going to continue to try to
ward off destabilization, no matter how far the markets
plummet. And UN peacekeepers, in these countries and a
dozen others, are still going to be trying to do their jobs, in
some of the hardest hit areas of the world, even if donor
nations do scrounge up the money to pay them.
That's why it is discouraging that the United States,
by far the wealthiest country in the world, and the largest
contributor to UN peacekeeping, is again going to fall be-
hind in paying its dues. It's extra frustrating because the
Obama Administration, and its UN ambassador, Susan
Rice, have stressed at great lengths the importance of sup-
porting UN peacekeeping, of re-
engaging with the rest of the world,
and of ending conflicts in places like
Congo and Sudan, where blue helmets
are the only ones working to hold tenu-
ous peace. Hell, the United States has
peacekeeping missions. If it's going to vote for these
missions in the Security Council, it's going to get billed
for them, plain and simple.
Despite this rhetorical support and the fact that the
bills are going to come, even if the government keeps de-
ferring payment, the U.S.'s 2009 budget request will
shortchange UN peacekeeping by $669 million. That
may seem like small potatoes in these days of $800 billion
legislation, but when you're talking about the UN's Depart-
ment of Peacekeeping Operations, which runs on a shoe-
string yearly budget of just $7 billion, those missing U.S.
funds will hit hard, in places that need them the most, to
protect the people that most need protection.
Congress will have a chance to make up this fund-
ing gap later, through what's called a supplemental funding
bill, but it's disheartening to see the U.S.'s long-standing
policy of paying its UN dues late continue, with an admini-
stration so committed to improving America's image and
taking up a strong leadership position in the world. For the
sake of peacekeeping missions everywhere, struggling with
the rest of the world in this economic downturn, and to live
up to the administration's own commitments, the United
States will have to provide this crucial funding as soon as
possible.

Advocacy in Action of specially treated mosquito nets, a total of last four hurricanes caused most damages
This is just an example of how we 90 nets weighing 30 pounds each. with more than 4000 dead. That area is the
can use the proceeds of our events. Franck Center of Malaria in Haiti after Hinche and
Simon, M.D., is the new 1st Vice President A message from Dr. Franck Simon Maissade. Then, I will have to go to differ-
for the UNAUSA Fl Division. The Tampa This trip I plan to cover the villages ent remote villages each trip, using a mo-
Bay Chapter board approved a donation of of St. Marc ( north ) and Jacmel ( south ). If bile clinic system ( my Toyota Truck ). I will
$400 to purchase mosquito nets and ma- there is any left over, I will do the same in bring you pictures. Once more, thank you
laria medications. He is travelling this Fort Liberte and Ouanaminthe ( north so very much to the Tampa Bay Chapter.
month to Haiti. Dr. Franck Simon has in- west ) and Cayes ( south ). Another big -F.Simon
formed me that he now has in hand 3 boxes problem is Gonaives ( north ) where the
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TAMPA BAY CHAPTER

United Nations Association-USA
5309 Redfield Lane
Tampa, Fl. 33624

Board of Directors
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
TAMPA BAY CHAPTER UNA-USA
Kelly Miliziano, President Membership Categories
Sara McMillan, VP-Membership Name_______________________________ Introductory (1st yr. only)/Fixed Inc. $ 25
Dave Randle,VP-Advocacy please print Member (Individual or Household) 40
Alexandra Koutsogiannopoulos, Organization 40
VP- Programs Address_____________________________ Limited Income (Indiv or Family ) 25
Allison Cuffaro, VP-Technology Student 10
Carol Zavarella, Ph.D., Treasurer ___________________________________ Sponsor 100
Kelly Reynolds, Secretary city state zip Patron 500
Mark Amen, Ph.D., Director Lifetime (one time payment ) 1,000
Timothy Kennedy, Ph.D., Director
Tel. No.____________ Fax No.____________ E-mail _____________________
Paul Yingst, Director Send application to:
Einar J. Velarde Marin, Director UNA-USA Membership Services My check for $______ is enclosed
Javier Alamillo, Director 801 Second Avenue Make check payable to UNA-USA
New York, NY 10017-4706 (Dues are tax deductible)
Jimmy Suarez, Director-Univ. Rep. Phone: 212-907-1300
CherylBorman, Director-Newsletter Ed.
Vacant, VP-Education