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QUITO, ECUADORQuito is a capital of Ecuador with population 1,600,000. Though unimportant economically, it is Ecuador’s political and cultural centre and a second largest city. It is famous for its splendid setting, lying at an elevation of 2,850 m in a fertile Andean valley at the foot of a volcano. The colonial city was built at the site of the capital of the Inca kingdom of Quito, captured for Spain in 1534. In 1822 it was liberated from Spain by Antonio Jose de Sucre. Although the city has often been damaged by earthquakes, many fine examples of Spanish colonial architecture remain, including the great Church of San Francisco. |
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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