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Dear Friends,
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the
web site of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United
Nations. We hope you will find the information contained herein helpful
to your work and ministry. Before you continue to explore the site,
allow us to share with you a short history of the Holy See's
presence at the United Nations by clicking
here.
POPE BENEDICT'S VISIT TO THE UNITED NATIONS:
On
April 18, 2008, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI visited the United Nations
Headquarters in New York, where he met with Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon
and the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Srgjan Kerim. The Holy
Father addressed the General Assembly and the Staff of the United Nations.
Click here for the text of the Papal Addresses
to the General
Assembly and to the UN
Staff.
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
gets ready to address the staff of the United Nations in the General
Assembly Hall
© UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras |
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
(right) and Srgjan Kerim (left), President of the sixty-second session
of the General Assembly,
meet with His Holiness Pope
Benedict XVI, upon his arrival.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe |
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United Nations International School
(UNIS) students
welcome His Holiness Pope Benedict
XVI with a bouquet of flowers.
© UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
touches the United Nations flag removed from the ruins of the United
Nations Headquarters in Baghdad during the 2001 bombing attack, in
remembrance of the injured and those who died.
© UN Photo/Evan Schneider |
Exactly one year prior to
the Holy Father's visit to the United Nations, on April 18, 2007, Pope
Benedict XVI had received UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon who had
invited him to the Organization's Headquarters in New York.
Click here to
view pictures of the visit.
In the context of the 40th anniversary of the Holy See’s Permanent
Observer Mission to the UN, on 1 July 2004, the General Assembly
adopted a Resolution, by acclamation, confirming and strengthening the
rights of the Holy See as a Permanent Observer in the UN. The Holy See
now enjoys, among other things, the right to participate in the general
debate of the General Assembly; the right of reply; the right to have
its communications issued and circulated directly as official documents
of the Assembly; and the right to co-sponsor draft resolutions and
decisions that make reference to the Holy See.
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