United Nations Peace Messenger Cities
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United Nations Peace Messenger Cities are cities around the world that have volunteered for an initiative sponsored by the United Nations to promote peace and understanding between nations.
The movement began in the International Year for Peace, 1986, when 62 cities were chosen from among thousands. Representatives of these 62 cities met on 7 and 8 September 1988 at Verdun, to participate:
"in the building of a world less violent and more humane, a world of tolerance and of mutual. respect to enable the requirements of peace based on justice and human rights to be better understood".
The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was established in 1996 and now administers the programme on behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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[edit] Member cities
As of 2006, the list of Peace Messenger Cities is:
[edit] Joined in 1987
- Abidjan
- Arnhem
- Assisi
- Atlanta
- Bangui
- Beijing
- Brighton & Hove
- Buenos Aires
- Chicago
- Como
- Concord
- Dakar
- Delphi
- Dhaka
- Florence
- Geneva
- Hammam-Lif
- Helsinki
- Hiroshima
- Kiev
- Copenhagen
- Kragujevac
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
- La Paz
- La Plaine sur Mer (a suburb of Nantes)
- Lima
- Lome
- Madrid
- Maputo
- Marrakech
- Marzabotto
- Melbourne
- Minsk
- Moscow
- Nagasaki
- New Delhi
- New Haven
- Pori
- Prague
- Ravenna
- Rijswijk
- Rome
- San Francisco
- San José, Costa Rica
- Saint Petersburg
- Sheffield
- Sochi
- Split
- Stockholm
- Tblisi
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Verdun
- Villa el Salvador
- Volgograd
- Warsaw
- Vienna
- Wollongong
- Yokohama
