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INPS-IDN spoke with Ambassador Dr. Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Representative of Palestine to the UN Observer Mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the United Nations (UN), and discussed what it means to chair the Group of 77 (G77) comprising 134 nations from around the world, without being a full-fledged member of the UN.
INPS-IDN called on the UN Office for South-South Cooperation's director Jorge Chediek on May 10, 2019.
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Jorge Chediek Speaks About Landmark Progress in South-South Cooperation > https://youtu.be/h5Lyvs_48Kg
Three and a half years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the Vatican's Dicastery and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue hosted from March 7-9, 2019 a three-day International Conference on Religions and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Listening to the cry of the earth and the poor'.
During 2018 INPS Southeast Asia Director and Asia-Pacific correspondent Kalinga was constantly on the road in 2018: giving lectures on mindful communication, teaching radio journalism at PSB Academy in Singapore, coordinating the first Asian Buddhist Media Conclave in New Delhi for the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), visiting grassroots development projects in Thailand and meeting Buddhist communicators in Myanmar.
INPS-IDN has captured in this video celebrations on the occasion of the 160th birth anniversary of Ozaki Yukio (Gakudo) (1858-1954), considered the father of Japan's constitutional democracy. The event was organized by the Ozaki Memorial Foundation at the Parliamentary Memorial Hall on October 19, 2018. Tadamori Oshima, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is honorary Chairperson of the Foundation. Former Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura presides over the Foundation's Board Members.
INPS Group and its flagship agency IDN-InDepthNews Director-General and Ediror-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura, accompanied by INPS Multimedia Director Katsuhiro Asagiri, visited the headquarters of our partner Kazinform International News Agency in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on October 12, 2018.
The Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions is a unique interfaith forum, convened every three years in Astana at the initiative of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. For 15 years, this landmark forum has played an important role in the rapprochement of cultures and civilizations, in searching for answers to the key challenges of our time. “Religious Leaders for a Safe World” was the main topic of the Sixth Congress, which was held October 10-11, 2018 in the capital of Kazakhstan.
On 28 August 2018, members of the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) and the CTBTO Youth Group (CYG) gathered in Kazakhstan's capital city of Astana for a five-day conference aimed at reflecting on the role of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in building global peace and finding ways to strengthen it in the future, specifically through raising the profile of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, met from July 9-18 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The HLPF 2018 ministerial meeting was convened from July 16-18.
Apart from covering the ministerial meeting, INPS-IDN DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met with some of the current and former senior officials of the world body, UN and G77 experts, New York-based UN correspondents and some of our partners.
