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Centennial Celebration
The year 2009 was the centennial birth anniversary of U Thant who was born on January 22, 1909  in a town of Pantanaw,Myanmar. 
A Day of Commemoration was organized by the U Thant Institute, celebrating the legacy of U Thant with His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon and Mrs. Ban Soon-taek as honored guests at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room on June 3, 2009.
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The FAC Programme Launch MISSION: To advance peace through education and promote intercultural understanding. GOAL: To create a network of young students from middle schools around the world who will, through their connections with one another, practice tolerance, cooperation and mutual understanding and realize the value of diversity, as well as address the need to develop a spirit of “One World.”
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Mr. Ban Ki-moon at U Thant's Mausoleum
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon lays a wreath at the mausoleum of third UN Secretary-General U Thant in Yangon on 23 May, 2008. He was in Myanmar for talk with the Government for a  full-scale international relief effort three weeks after Cyclone Nargis left at least 133,000 people dead or missing.
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Centennial Celebration in Myanmar
Celebration of the centennial birth anniversary of U Thant was celebrated with a gala event at the Inya Lake Hotel in Myanmar’s historical city of Yangon on his birth date January 22nd 2009. Over 300 including family members, friends and UN representatives, foreign diplomats, a Myanmar foreign ministry representative attended the event.
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Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar On May 8, 2008, the U Thant Institute urgently established the “Emergency Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund” in response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis in the Delta Region of Myanmar.
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U Thant

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U Thant at The United Nations :

U Thant was the third Secretary-General of the United Nations and served from 1961 to 1971.  He was chosen to head the world body following the death of the then Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in an air crash in September 1961.  

U Thant was appointed Burma’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador in 1957.  As UN Ambassador, he was active in issues of decolonization and was the Chairman of the Afro-Asian Working Group on Algerian Independence.  In 1959, he served as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly's fourteenth session.  In 1961, U Thant was Chairman of the United Nations Congo Conciliation Commission and Chairman of the Committee on a United Nations Capital Development Fund.

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IN MEMORY OF 9/11 

Dear Friends,

In this time of sorrow,  I join with all of you in offering my thoughts and condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the terrorist attack on America 10 years ago.

Dedicated to those who lost their lives and to their families, I would like to offer my prayers with the traditional Buddhist healing blessings and also to the rest of us  who witnessed such tragedy with much sadness.

Aye Aye


Traditional Buddhist Healing Prayer

Let no one do harm to anyone.
Let no one put the life of anyone in danger.
Let no one, out of anger or ill will,
wish anyone any harm.

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Just as the soft rains fill the streams,
pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans,
so may the power of every moment of your goodness
flow forth to awaken and heal all beings,
Those here now, those gone before, those yet to come.

 

2011 Ambassadors' Luncheon

Westport, CT, June 9 (U Thant Institute) -- At the U Thant Institute’s annual Ambassadors' Luncheon held this year at Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations, Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, said the “Arab Spring” would be followed by an “Arab hot summer” with different levels of “heat” in the various countries, depending on the course taken in each.  The Ambassador was speaking as part of a program featuring other ambassadors and notable UN officials.

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