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Cartooning for Peace : a unique exhibition at the Palais des Nations

The Palais des Nations has been fortunate enough to host a unique exhibition of eighteen world-famous cartoonists, ranging from Plantu (France), Ranan Lurie (USA), Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Ali Dilem (Algeria), Hassan Karimzadeh (Iran), Michel Kichka (Israel), Stavro (Lebanon), Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia) and many others. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, was a great fan of political caricatures, and Ms Marie Heuze, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, introduced him to the famous French cartoonist Plantu many years…

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Shashi Tharoor : Reflections on a changing United Nations
Shashi Tharoor

SHASHI ON SUNDAY (1 April 2007) April Fool’s Day 2007 is actually a rather serious day for your columnist. Yesterday I ended my career as an international civil servant, just one month shy of what would have been 29 years at the United Nations. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and yet I can’t help looking back a bit at the Organization I’ve just left behind. I joined the UN in 1978 as an…

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