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JCCC Model UN Team Wins Big at NMUN at UN HQ in New York

Read about the JCCC Model UN team's triumphs at the NMUN in New York.

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Biographies of April 6 K.C. Food Aid Symposium Presenters

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Mayor's UN Day Dinner

John Stone

Dr. John Stone of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was guest speaker at the 2008 Mayor's UN Day Dinner on Friday, Oct. 24, in Pierson Auditorium, University of Missouri -- Kansas City. For text of Dr. Stone's address,, click here.

Dr. Gary B. Morsch

Dr. Gary Morsch was selected to receive the 2008 Kansas City World Citizen of the Year Award, which will be presented at the Mayor's UN Day Dinner on Friday, Oct. 24, in Pierson Auditorium, University of Missouri -- Kansas City For Dr. Morsch's biography, click here, for News.

Click here for information on U.N. Peacekeepers event and other NEWS about UNA, YPIC, Model UN

Kofi Annan 

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Peace Plaza in Independence, Missouri,

 Dec. 11, 2006.

Courtesy Independence Examiner

Click here for text of Kofi Annan's farewell speech at the Truman Library

Click here for photo gallery

of Kofi Annan's visit

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David Nabarro, M.D.

Dr. David Nabarro, U.N. System Influenza Coordinator, addresses the 2006 Mayor's United Nations Day Dinner.

Click here for photo gallery of the 2006 Mayor's UN. Day Dinner whose special guest was Dr. Nabarro.

Save the Date

Oct. 29, 2009

Mayor's U.N. Day Dinner

Speaker:

 Radhika Coomaraswamy

U.N. Under Secretary-General &

Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

Saturday, May 30

UN Peacekeepers Day at the Truman Library

 &  UN Peace Plaza

1:00 p.m. Light reception at the Truman

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Program

Welcome to the Truman, Ray Geselbracht, special assistant to the director, Harry S. Truman Library

Honoring the Peacekeepers: Jay Sjerven, President, United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City

Observations on U.S. Military Interface with U.N. and Other Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations: Lt. Col. John Curatola, Ph.D., U.S. Marine Corps, Dept. of Joint Interagency and Multilateral Operations, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College

Peacekeeper Roundtable

Moderator: William G. Eckhardt (Colonel, JAGC retired), professor of law, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Panel: Major Luis Cepeda (Spain), Major Peter Els (Denmark),

Major Alexandru Harea (Moldova), Commandant Mark Hearns (Ireland) and Major Milton Katarinyeba (Uganda)

3:45 p.m. Wreath-laying at the U.N. Peace Plaza

Cost is admission to the library.

The Harry S. Truman Library is located at 500 West U.S. Highway 24, Independence, MO

Please r.s.v.p. to unagkc@aol.com

 From last year's tribute to the blue helmets

UNA members from Missouri chapters join Maj. Gen. Anis Bajwa of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN Peace Plaza in Independence to honor UN peacekeepers who gave their lives in the line of duty.

Maj. Gen. Bajwa is flanked by Col. Scott Weaver, U.S. Army, and Lt. Col. Graeme Finney of Australia and other instructors and students from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth at the UN Peace Plaza following a program at the Truman Library.

Lt. Col. Finney and Maj. Gen. Bajwa  lay a wreath at the base of the U.N. Peace Plaza. The plaza, located in Independence, Missouri, is dedicated to U.N. peacekeepers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The wreath laying followed a Tribute to the Blue Helmets held at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum on Saturday, May 31, 2008.

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Kansas City Food Aid Symposium

U.S. and world response to the food security crisis

Among presenters at the Fourth Kansas City Food Aid Symposium included, from left, Max Finberg, director, Alliance to End Hunger; Allan Jury, director, U.S. Relations, World Food Program, and Ambassador Tony Hall. News report soon.