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2015 GENBAKU-NO-HI celebration

Verein GENBAKU NO HI, in cooperation with the NGO Committee on Peace, Vienna, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs at Vienna

Invite you to the 2015 GENBAKU NO HI Event

Date: Thursday, 6 August 2015, Time: 12:00 p.m.

Place: Vienna International Centre, Rotunda

Speeches:

Mrs. Yuko Gulda, Founder, Verein GENBAKU NO HI

Mr. Péricles Gasparini, Chief of the Vienna Office, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

Gabriele Gil-Feigl, Deputy Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, Vienna

Dr. Klaus Renoldner, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Austria

Ms. Bettina Schieraus, Project coordinator, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), Austria

Artistic Programme:

Origami Corner; Ikebana; Koinobori; Tanabata

Performance by Yoshie Maruoka & Armin Stidl

Music Performances:

United Nations Choir

Japanese songs by Taeka Hino (Soprano) & Hiromi Mitsuji-Landerl (Piano)

Ringing the Peace Bell

During the event a reception will kindly be sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations (Vienna)

A ground pass is required to enter the Vienna International Centre (VIC). If you do not have a

permanent pass, please register at lau.videla@gmail.com no later than 3 August 2015.

Please provide your details: Title (Mr. or Ms.), First name, Last name, Date of birth, Type of ID, ID number and Issuing Country.

Please present the registered identity document at Gate 1 of the VIC, 1220 Wien,

Wagramerstrasse 5, on 6 August 2015. It is best reached by Subway U1 (Kaisermühlen).

Report:

ATOMIC BOMB AWARENESS DAY - 2014 GENBAKU-NO-HI Celebration

August 8^th 2014, UN Vienna International Centre, Rotunda

This is an initiative to establish an official Atomic Bomb Memorial Day – GENBAKU NO HI to be celebrated on August 8th, in order to commemorate the victims of Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9th 1945) and to call for a prohibition of all nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.