Bangkok as UN regional hub
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The United Nations agencies and entities based in Thailand will mark 62 years of the world body's presence in the Thai capital on October 24 with the launch of Bangkok as the "UN Hub in Asia and the Pacific".
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra and Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra
will join Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) for the annual observance of the United
Nations birthday in Bangkok on 24 October.
The official ceremony to include flag-raising, delivery of addresses and UN inter-agency exhibition and the Chinese/Thai art and calligraphy.
