HOLY SEE SIDE EVENT AT THE UNITED NATIONS

 DEVELOPMENT, THE NEW NAME FOR PEACE:

40^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PAPAL ENCYCLICAL

POPULORUM PROGRESSIO - ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES

New York City, 17 October 2007

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On October 17, 2007 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, over 100 persons - Ambassadors, Attachés and Delegates of UN Member States, Representatives of NGOs and others attended a side event  on "Development, the new Name for Peace", commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI's Encyclical Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples).             

This event was sponsored by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations and the Path to Peace Foundation.

Left to Right: Prof. Luba Racanska, Chair and Associate Professor, Government and Politics Department, St. John's University; Mr. Oscar de Rojas, Director of the UN Office for Financing of Development; H.E. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland; Msgr. Bernardito Auza, First Counselor, Holy See Mission.

	Press Release on the Side Event
	Keynote Speech by H.E. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
	Response by Prof. Luba Racanska

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