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accommodation to many families.

Abbe Pierre gained notoriety during the cold winter of 1954 when he issued his radio
appeal for help and generosity. This appeal resulted in 500 million French francs in
donations. Abbe Pierre died in 2007 at the age of 94, by then he had spent 60 years of
his life not only fighting again poverty and homelessness but also doing his utmost to
heal society by eradicating them.

WHAT WE MISSED…

Article proposed by Odette FOUDRAL

’A Plus For Peace’ is Switzerland’s available to the United Nations and the
slogan for its candidacy for a seat on Security Council our long-standing
the Security Council in 2023-24. This experience in good offices and our ability
was announced today by Federal to compromise, which is in the Swiss
Councillor Ignazio Cassis, on the 75th DNA”, said Federal Councillor Cassis,
anniversary of the signing of the United convinced that a seat on the Security
Nations Charter. To mark the Council will allow Switzerland to defend its
anniversary, the head of the Federal interests and help to achieve its foreign
Department of Foreign Affairs, policy goals. The candidacy slogan was
accompanied by the Director-General chosen from hundreds of suggestions sent
of UN Geneva, Tatiana Valovaya, by FDFA staff members.
presented a biodegradable fresco by A desire to promote Switzerland’s
the artist Saype in the park of the interests and values underlies the
Palais des Nations.
decision, made by the Federal Council in
2011, to apply for a non-permanent seat
on the Security Council for the years
2023-24. Following the election last week
of Switzerland’s immediate predecessors
in its voting group, the candidacy is now
entering its final phase.

‘World in Progress’

The United Nations Organisation was
founded exactly 75 years ago in San
Francisco where, after two months of
The slogan will be ‘A PLUS FOR PEACE’, discussions, representatives from 50
encapsulating what Switzerland will bring countries signed the Charter
to the Security Council. “We want to make

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