The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon, in cooperation with the United Nations \u200eInformation Centre (UNIC) in Beirut, organized a ceremony on 23 October 2009, to mark \u200ethe UN Day and later in the day a reception was held by the UN Special Coordinator for \u200eLebanon Michael Williams to celebrate the occasion. \u200e<\/p>\n
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the Office of the UN Special Coordinator \u200efor Lebanon (UNSCOL) and the Irish-Lebanese Cultural Foundation participated in the \u200eKaslik event, which was also held under the auspices of the Information Minister Tarek \u200eMitri. The ceremony was attended by Mitri, senior clergymen, representatives from UN \u200eagencies in Lebanon, diplomats and a number of students. \u200e<\/p>\n
Presentations were made by Chief of Staff of UNSCOL Jack Christofides, UNIC Beirut \u200eDirector Bahaa Elkoussy, UNIFIL Spokesperson Yasmina Bouziane and Chairman of \u200ethe Irish-Lebanese Cultural Foundation Guy Younes (Ireland WLCU chapter). \u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n The presentations focused on the history of the UN, some of its achievements in Lebanon \u200eand worldwide, and on the role of UNIFIL. Elkoussy also briefed the audience on the \u200ebasic facts and structure of the UN, as well as the various achievements of UN agencies \u200ein Lebanon. \u200e<\/p>\n The UN Day reception later in the evening at the Sursock Gardens in Beirut was attended \u200eby high-ranking figures, including representatives of the President, House Speaker and \u200ethe Prime Minister, as well as members of parliament, ministers, diplomats, UN partners \u200ein Lebanon, UN staff and the media. \u200e<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the United Nations Economic and Social Change for Western Asia \u200e\u200e(ESCWA) Staff Council marked the UN Day at the UN House in Beirut on 23 \u200eOctober, by hosting a perception for the staff members.\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon, in cooperation with the United Nations \u200eInformation Centre (UNIC) in Beirut, organized a ceremony on 23 October 2009, to mark \u200ethe UN Day and later in the day a reception was held by the UN Special Coordinator for \u200eLebanon Michael Williams to celebrate the occasion. \u200e The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lebanon","category-united-nations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","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=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}