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BOGOTA, COLOMBIABogotá, the capital and largest city of Colombia, is the political, social, and financial centre of the republic. The city has many fine examples of colonial architecture, including the cathedral and the churches of San Ignacio and San Francisco. As the capital and archiepiscopal see of the colonial viceroyalty of New Granada, the city became an early religious and intellectual centre. The intellectual impact of the French Revolution inspired Antonio Narino and others to agitate against Spanish rule; Jose Acevedo y Gomez led the first successful revolt against Spain in 1810. Francisco de Paula Santander and Simon Bolivar were prominent in Bogotá, and the city was made the capital of Greater Colombia following Bolivar’s victory at Boyaca in 1918. When the city was divided in 1830, Bogotá became the capital of what was later called Colombia. |
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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