Annex 2
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Member State
Activities undertaken to mark the Year of Peace and
Security (July-December 2010)
Activities undertaken on the International Day of
Peace, 21 September 2010
a major collaborator in the planning of the Peace
Day event), Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in
Southern Sudan, Deputy UN Resident Humanitarian
Coordinator. The message of the Chairperson of the
Commission was read out by Ambassador Stanislas
Nakaha. The business community was also
represented. Peace Day was concluded around
18h30 by a football match between two teams, one
from the Joint Integrated Units and another from
the Bangladesh Battalion.
A live roundtable discussion at 19h00 was
organized in the studios of Radio Miraya, with the
participation of Ambassador Nakaha, the Speaker
of the Southern Sudan Youth Parliament and the
Secretary-General of the Nuer Youth Association.
A symposium on peace was co-organized by
UNICEF, UNMIS and the University of Juba
represented by the Center for Peace and
Development Studies.
UNICEF sponsored a school art festival for peace, in
collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
UNICEF and the Ministry of Youth co-organized a
youth march in Khartoum, Juba, Nyala and Abyei.
In East Sudan, UNHCR delivered a peace message
projected towards building peaceful co-existence