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Interview with Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

02/12/2009

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You are the Director-General of the European headquarters of the United Nations. What do you consider to be the main role of the office here? It is probably more accurate to talk about different types of roles rather than any particular main role. The United Nations Office at Geneva, which I head, is the representative office of the Secretary-General in Switzerland. We cooperate with the entire United Nations family here to facilitate efforts across the three pillars of the…

Calvin and Geneva: The Protestant Reformer

02/12/2009

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On 10 July 2009 the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin (1509-64), the controversial and influential French protestant theologian and reformer. At almost fifty-five he died in Geneva on 27 May 1564 and was buried in the Plainpalais Cemetery, Rue des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland. In the sixteenth century the cemetery was outside the city walls and used for common burials where his actual burial spot is unidentified. Calvin and Geneva In the middle…