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12)Sheikh Hasina the right choice as chief guest to the Republic Morning but trust the PMO to miss the obvious

India Republic Day -- From a record 10 Chief Friends for the Republic Day March in 2018 to non-e in 2021 is as very much a reflection on Prime Minister Narendra Modis out of the box approach to foreign policy. From a record 10 Chief Friends for the Republic Day March in 2018 to non-e in 2021 is as very much a reflection on Prime Minister Narendra Modis out of the box approach to foreign policy since his blind spots although zeroing in on an extraordinary foreign dignitary. Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh would have been the perfect Republic Day Chief Guest this year for umpteen reasons but it obviously didnt occur to Modi to single her away for the honour. I shudder to even speculate if the visionary and statesman like Modi is blinded by means of her religion or sexual category or both to pass her up? Instead of inviting Uk PM Boris Johnson who else ultimately chickened out Hasina should have been Modis programmed choice this year as it is the 50th anniversary of the d...
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Webinar Hosting and Pricing

The demand for webinar hosts is constantly rising, making it more important for webinar marketers to have a good host for their online courses. If you want to succeed at marketing online courses and webinars, then you need to have good webinar hosting to help you in all your presentation needs. In this article, I will introduce you to the various options that you have when looking for webinar host providers: basic, premium, and commercial. These three categories are the most popular today, but here are some other ones that might be interesting to try out as well. Here are 23 of the best webinar hosting sites that you can pick from based on your own personal preferences: This is the first category of webinar hosting webinars available today. It enables you to easily share online training via the internet with up to date and active audiences. The interactive whiteboard makes using the course creation tools really easy, which allows you to be able to present any information you would lik...
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Headquarters of the United Nations

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The United Nations is headquartered in New York City in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1951. It is in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds overlooking the East River. Its borders are First Avenue on the west, East 42nd Street to the south, East 48th Street on the north, and the East River to the east. The term Turtle Bay is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or for the United Nations as a whole. The headquarters holds the seats of the principal organs of the UN, including the General Assembly and the Security Council, but excluding the International Court of Justice, which is seated in the Hague. The United Nations has three additional subsidiary regional headquarters, or headquarters districts. These were opened in Gene...
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History

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Planning edit Site edit The headquarters of the United Nations occupies a site beside the East River between 42nd and 48th Streets, on between 17 and 18 acres (6.9 and 7.3 ha)a of land purchased from the real estate developer William Zeckendorf Sr. At the time, the site was part of Turtle Bay, which contained slaughterhouses and tenement buildings, as well as the original Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. By the 1910s, there was also a pencil factory and a gas company building in Turtle Bay, on the site of the current UN headquarters. The development of Sutton Place and Beekman Place, north of the current UN site, came in the 1920s. A yacht club on the site was proposed in 1925, but it proved to be too expensive. In 1946, Zeckendorf purchased the land with the intention to create an "X City" on the site. This complex was to contain an office building and a hotel, each 57 stories tall, and an entertainment complex between them. The X City would have also had smaller apartment and...
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International character

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The UN identifies Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish as its six official languages. Delegates speaking in any of these languages will have their words simultaneously interpreted into all of the others, and attendees are provided with headphones through which they can hear the interpretations. A delegate is allowed to make a statement in a non-official language, but must provide either an interpreter or a written copy of his/her remarks translated into an official language. English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat, as most of the daily communication within the Secretariat and most of the signs in the UN headquarters building are in those languages. Extraterritoriality and security edit The site of the UN headquarters has extraterritoriality status. This affects some law enforcement where UN rules override the laws of New York City, but it does not give immunity to those who commit crimes there. In addition, the United Nations Head...
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Structures

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The complex includes a number of major buildings. While the Secretariat building is most predominantly featured in depictions of the headquarters, it also includes the domed General Assembly building, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, as well as the Conference and Visitors Center, which is situated between the General Assembly and Secretariat buildings, and can be seen only from the FDR Drive or the East River. Just inside the perimeter fence of the complex stands a line of flagpoles where the flags of all 193 UN member states, 2 observer states, plus the UN flag, are flown in English alphabetical order. General Assembly Building edit The General Assembly Building, housing the United Nations General Assembly, holds the General Assembly Hall, which has a seating capacity of 1,800. At 165 ft (50 m) long by 115 ft (35 m) wide, it is the largest room in the complex. The Hall has two murals by the French artist Fernand Léger. At the front of the chamber is the rostrum containing the green marbl...
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Art collection

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The complex contains gardens, which were originally private gardens before being opened to the public in 1958. The complex is notable for its gardens and outdoor sculptures. Iconic sculptures include the "Knotted Gun", called Non-Violence , a statue of a Colt Python revolver with its barrel tied in a knot, which was a gift from the Luxembourg government and Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares , a gift from the Soviet Union. The latter sculpture is the only appearance of the "swords into plowshares" quotation, from Isaiah 2:4, within the complex. Contrary to popular belief, the quotation is not carved on any UN building. Rather, it is carved on the "Isaiah Wall" of Ralph Bunche Park across First Avenue. A piece of the Berlin Wall also stands in the UN garden. Other prominent artworks on the grounds include Peace - a Marc Chagall stained glass window memorializing the death of Dag Hammarskjöld - the Japanese Peace Bell which is rung on the vernal equinox and...
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