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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the
website of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United
Nations. We hope you will find the information contained herein of
interest to you. Before you continue to explore the site, you
are invited to review a short history of the Holy See's
presence at the United Nations by clicking
here.
On March 10,
2010 the Holy See Mission sponsored
a Panel discussion
at UN Headquarters, entitled:
Globalization: It makes us neighbors, grasps equality between women and
men. Can it also establish fraternity? - In light of the Encyclical
Caritas in Veritate. Click here for more
information.
On April 16,
2009 the Holy See Mission held
a symposium
at UN Headquarters to commemorate the first anniversary of the visit
of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the United Nations. The
event drew a number of Permanent Representatives as well as many UN
officials and members of the public, showing that the Pope's message
remains fresh in the minds of people who heard him last year.
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information.
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TWO YEARS AGO:
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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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.
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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.
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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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