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KOSICE, SLOVAKIAKosice is a major industrial centre and transportation hub for Slovakia. Originally a fortress town, Kosice was chartered in 1241 and became an important trade centre during the Middle Ages. It was frequently occupied by Austrian, Hungarian, and Turkish forces. The Treaty of Trianon (1920) passed the city from Hungary to Czechoslovakia. The city’s most notable historic buildings include the Gothic Cathedral of St. Elizabeth (14th – 15th centuries), the 14th–century Franciscan monastery and church, and an 18th -century town hall. The city also has a university and several cultural institutions. |
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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