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    UN CELEBRATES ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY
    By Gohar Gevorgian

    AZG Armenian Daily #163
    13/09/2005

    The representatives of 50 countries worked out the regulation of the
    UN at the first Congress of the United Nations in San Francisco,
    1945. It was signed on July 26, 1945 but they consider that the
    organization officially started its activities on October 24 of the
    same year. The organization celebrates its 60th anniversary this
    year. A number of arrangements are envisaged to take place within
    the framework of this celebration. The presentation of "We and Our
    History" song opened the festive arrangements.

    Consuelo Vidal, UN Resident Coordinator, represented the series of
    arrangements and stated that the song performed by 26 Armenian singers
    fully reflected the ideas and the values of the organization.

    A big open-air concert will take place on September 17,
    while on September 24 a big chess competition will be held in
    Cascade. Well-known Armenian chess players as well as children
    from 17 cities of our republic will participate in the open-air
    competition. Smbat Lputian, outstanding Armenian chess player, believes
    that the competition organized by the Armenian Chess Federation and
    the Chess Academy will be a genuine chess feast. The arrangements also
    include the competition of schoolchildren's literary compositions on
    the topic "The UN in the World and in My Life." An exhibition of young
    photographers will open on the very birthday of the organization,
    on October 24. The concert of classical music at Aram Khachatrian
    Concert Hall will complete the day.

    Ms. Vidal said that the UN Summit dedicated to Millennium Development
    Aims project will be held in New York soon. She said that the Armenian
    delegation will also represent its report at the New York summit.

    This year is important for the organization for another reason,
    too. The fifth anniversary of the Millennium memorandum is celebrated
    in 2005, as well. It's worth reminding that the abovementioned
    memorandum was signed in 2000 by 191 countries of the world that
    committed to achieve the 8 aims of the millennium development until
    2015. The millennium goals are as follows: struggle against diseases
    and children's death, assistance to the victims of natural disasters,
    poverty overcoming, stability of environment and maintaining education,
    as well as cooperation between the countries of the world.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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