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HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki is the capital of Finland and its commercial, administrative, and intellectual centre. Founded in 1550 by Gustavus I of Sweden, the city was devastated by a great fire in 1808. It was rebuilt as a well-planned and spacious metropolis. The city grew rapidly when Alexander I of Russia moved the capital there from Turku. The University of Helsinki (founded in 1640 in Turku) was moved to Helsinki in 1828, a move that made Helsinki the centre of Finish nationalism. The Church of St. Nicholas, the national art gallery, a railway station designed by Eliel Sarrinen, a sports stadium that was the scene of the 1952 Olympic games, and a technical university founded in 1879 are in Helsinki.
4/12/2010

Press Release - Oswiecim Appeal
Mayor 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.
@ IAPMC 2005