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UNITED NATIONS SOCIETY OF WRITERS SPONSORS A POETRY READING ON THE LAKE

03/12/2012

| Anglais/English/Inglés, Poetry and Literature

On Saturday 10 March beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until well past noon, the United Nations Society of Writers/Société des Ecrivains des Nations Unies and its literary journal Ex Tempore co-sponsored a “happening” at the Bains de Paquis, including the reading of lake poetry by Alphonse de Lamartine, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse, with translations into English and Russian. Under a pristine blue sky, balmy winds, and facing the glory of the jet d’eau rising majestically over…

Interview with Vladimir Gratchev, Director, Division of Conference Management, United Nations, Geneva

05/18/2011

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Contributing Writers, International Diplomat

Vladimir Gratchev is a pleasant man whom you may bump into early morning when he enters the Palais or late at night when he is leaving the office. He is a hard-working man who strives for a high quality of work. He graduated with honours from the prestigious Moscow Institute and had a career in the Foreign Ministry of the USSR and the Russian Federation before joining the UN Secretariat. Recently, he has written a book about one of…