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<\/a><\/p>\nDuring the three-day conference, there were panel discussions in the morning, over 10 \u200eworkshops each afternoon, then debriefings and then closing on Friday evening.\u00a0 \u200e<\/p>\n
Were present in these workshops:<\/strong>\u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Mr. Anwar Khoury the Former President of the World Lebanese Cultural Union
\n\u200e-\u200e Mr. Alejandro Khoury the President of the National Council of the WLCU in Mexico
\n\u200e-\u200e Mr. Bechara Bechara the President of the Regional council of Latin America of the WLCU
\n– Mr. Sid Chidiac,\u00a0 Alternative Repesentative of the WLCU at the DPI-UN, from New York
\n\u200e-\u200e Mrs. Mahassen Mara Hanna from the WLCU on the Hudson NJ-NYC Chapter – USA
\n\u200e-\u200e Dr. Patricia Brummell from the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
\n\u200e-\u200e Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation (US )\u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Dr. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Vice President of Programs, EastWest Institute (India\/US)\u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action (US)\u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Alexander Pikayev, World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow \u200e\u200e(Russia)\u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Mr. Roberto Zamora, a Lawyer and a native of Costa Rica. \u200e
\n\u200e-\u200e Mr. Tadatoshi Akiba, the current mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, and president of Mayors for \u200ePeace worldwide network of municipal leaders<\/p>\nSummary:\u200e<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n– Wednesday at 3:30, first workshop:\u200e<\/strong>
\nWarfare or Welfare: Which Priorities?\u200e
\nSponsor: International Peace Bureau (Switzerland)\u00a0 \u200e
\nCo-Sponsors: NGO Committee for Disarment, Geneva
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pax Christi International. \u200e
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peace Action\u200e
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peace Boat.\u00a0 \u200e
\nThis workshop was in room number 2, Ex Templo Corpus Christi (Ex of Corpus Christi) in the \u200eMinistry of Foreign Affairs.\u200e
\n\u200e \u200e
\nMeeting:\u200e
\nJeffrey V. Huffines-\u00a0 Chair of the NGO\/DPI Executive Committee<\/p>\n– Thursday, September 10, 2009\u200e<\/strong>
\nMeeting:\u200e
\nKiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information from the UN
\n\u200e \u200e
\nCharles Hitchcock – Peace Action International Chair, 62nd Annual DPI\/NGO Conference. He is \u200ethe one who organized this event. \u200e
\n\u200e \u200e
\nFrom 12-1:30, I attended the round table: \u200e
\nBreakout Sessions-Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\u00a0 \u200e
\n\u200e \u200e
\nFrom 3:30-5:00\u200e
\nDisarm Now to Create a Culture of Peace: Using Advocacy, Activism and Art to Speak out Against \u200eNuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction.\u00a0 \u200e
\nSponsor: KIK- Kulturel Information and Koordination (Denmark)\u200e
\nCo-Sponsors: The Ribbon International
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peace Action
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Social- Cultural Association DJs Contra La Fam\u200e
\n\u200e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women’s Caucus for Art
\nThis workshop was in building 6. Museo Franz Mayer (Franzs Mayer Museum).\u200e<\/p>\n– Friday, September 11, 2009<\/strong>\u00a0 \u200e
\nRoundtable IV:\u200e
\nNew Challenges and Perspectives for Global Development and Security for the 21st Century
\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs
\n\u200e10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. \u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the host country, Mexico, welcomed \u200eMr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who opened the 62nd Annual \u200eConference of DPI\/NGO (Department of Public Information for the Non-governmental Agencies). \u200e The theme of this Conference is DISARM NOW: Desarme Ahora! Trabajemos por la Pax y el \u200eDesarrollo.\u200e …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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