UNPO 20th Anniversary
Video: Members congratulate UNPO for its 20th Anniversary. Click here to see the photo gallery.
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20th Anniversary Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
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“Tracing the Past to Look Forward”
The Peace Palace - Seat of the International Court of Justice
The Hague, 11th February 2011
Two decades after its foundation in the seat of international law, the International Court of Justice, politicians, academics, and civil society met at the Peace Palace, The Hague, on 11 February 2011 to celebrate a seminal anniversary amid personal expressions of support from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Seif Sharif Hamad, First Vice-President of Zanzibar, Sergei Bagapsh, President of the Republic of Abkhazia, and Harry van Bommel Dutch Member of Parliament from the Socialist Party
PROGRAMME
Session I: Reflections on 20 years of UNPO
Ngawang Choephel, UNPO President
H.E. Saif Sharif Hamad, First Vice President of Zanzibar, former UNPO President
Lodi. G. Gyari, Special Envoy of H. H. the Dalai Lama
Lana Agrba, UNPO Vice President
Marco Pannella, Italian Radical Party
Mustafa Jemilev, the Head of Mejils of Crimean Tartars
Marino Busdachin, UNPO General Secretary
Session II: Autonomy and the Right to Self-Determination
Mohamaud Abdi Daar, Somaliland Representative in Brussels.
Dr. Charlotte Hille, University of Amsterdam, Caucasus Specialist
Michael van Walt van Praag, First General Secretary of UNPO
Tsering Jampa, UNPO Honorary President