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June 24th - 27th 2006:

XIX General Assembly in Vancouver, Canada

The 19th General Assembly of the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was hosted by the City of Vancouver, Canada on June 24th-27th, 2006.

The General Assembly took place in conjunction with the World Peace Forum, also sponsored by the City of Vancouver.

The seessions (some of them in conjunction with delegates from the "Mayors for Peace" movement) were chaired by Alfred L. Marder, (New Haven, USA), president of the IAPMC, co-chaired by George Chow (councillor and Deputy Mayor of Vancouver), the minutes were taken by Secretary General of the IAPMC, Brian Fitch (Brighton & Hove, UK). During the General Assembly, two new member cities were accepted: Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Jeju (South Korea). We proudly welcome our new members.

The theme of the World Peace Forum is "Cities and Communities: Working Together to End War and Build a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World".

You can find more about the World Peace Forum on www.worldpeaceforum.ca!
You can find the programme of the General Assembly in Vancouver in this document.

Read also:

Opening remarks by the president of IAPMC, Mr. Alfred L. Marder
Remarks by the mayor of our new member, Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Vancouver Appeal (20 KB)

   

   

   

   

   

   
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