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The Millennium Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders was held in New York City between August 28–31, 2000. The meeting recognized the importance of religion to world peace and faith leaders’ commitment to peacekeeping, poverty relief, and environmental conservation.
U. N. headquarters in New York City. The 2005 World Summit was a United Nations summit held between 14 and 16 September 2005 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. It was a follow-up summit meeting to the U.N.'s 2000 Millennium Summit (which formulated the Millennium Declaration of the Millennium Development Goals).
The Millennium Summit was a meeting among many world leaders, lasting three days from 6 to 8 September 2000, [1] [2] held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century. [3] At the meeting, world leaders ratified the United Nations Millennium ...
The group first worked out of the New York Public Library but later worked from the offices of the American Geographical Society of New York once Bowman had joined the group. [ 1 ] Mezes's senior colleagues were the geographer Isaiah Bowman , the historian and librarian Archibald Cary Coolidge , the historian James Shotwell , and the lawyer ...
The 12-story center is most known for its first-floor Chapel at the United Nations, which has a modernist design. [1] The chapel has long been a popular site for wedding ceremonies, especially ones between couples of different religious or national backgrounds. Other events and conferences have been held at the chapel and in the church center ...
The complex has a street address of United Nations headquarters, New York, NY, 10017, United States. For security reasons, all mail sent to this address is sterilized, so items that may be degraded can be sent by courier. [136] The United Nations Postal Administration issues stamps, which must be used on stamped mail sent from the building. [137]
On 8 September 2000, following a three-day Millennium Summit of world leaders gathered in New York at the headquarters of the United Nations, the UN General Assembly adopted some 60 goals regarding peace; development; environment; human rights; the vulnerable, hungry, and poor; Africa; and the United Nations which is called Millennium Declaration (Resolution 55/2). [1]
IFOR maintains permanent representatives at the United Nations (UN) in New York, Geneva, Vienna and Paris (UNESCO) who regularly participate in conferences and meetings of UN bodies, providing testimony and expertise from different regional perspectives, promoting non-violent alternatives in the fields of human rights, development, and disarmament.