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BERLIN, GERMANYBerlin is Germany’s largest city (pop. 3,700,000) and its historic and new capital. Formed from two villages chartered in 13th century it was a leading member of Hanseatic League. Berlin became prominent as a commercial, cultural, and communi- cations centre of Central Europe. It was the capitol of Prussia and of the German Empire after 1871 and the Weimar Republic after World War I. In World War II it was badly damaged by Allied bombing and a Soviet artillery attack. In 1945 it was divided into West Berlin (British-American-French zone) and East Berlin (Soviet zone). The status of divided Berlin became a major cold war issue. As the East German Communist regime collapsed (1989-90), the wall between the two parts of the city (erected in 1961) was breached. Upon German reunification in Oct. 1990, the new, all-German parliament held a symbolic session in Berlin in old Reichstag building, and in 1991 it voted to move the federal government to the city. |
4/12/2010
Press Release - Oswiecim AppealMayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching
United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York
Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
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