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U.S. Mission Geneva Our Quilt Challenge for The Global Fund Exhibition Opens Novmeber 12 in the Galerie des Pas Perdus at the United Nations Office in Geneva. We'll be giving away these posters based on one of the Featured Challenge Quilts. For more information about the Quilt Challenge visit: http://www.quiltchallenge.org

Maya
Maya
Very much looking forward to attending this exhibition!
about an hour ago
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U.S. Mission Geneva Cool! The Tribune de Geneve ran a little article about our new website!

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U.S. Mission Geneva The U.S. Mission hosted a breakfast for the United Nations Women's Guild featuring a presentation on Quilting traditions in the United States.

The Quilt Challenge team from the U.S. Mission and Global Fund make a presentation about quilts to members of the United Nations Women's Guild at an American breakfast buffet sponsored by the U.S. Mission.
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U.S. Mission Geneva The U.S. Mission homepage has a whole new look! Check it out and let us know what you think! http://geneva.usmission.gov

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U.S. Mission Geneva President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cites his emphasis on "multilateral diplomacy" and "the role that the United Nations and other international
institutions can play." http://geneva.usmission.gov/2009/10/09/nobel-peace-prize-200/

Source: geneva.usmission.gov
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. ...
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U.S. Mission Geneva In Geneva, "A Constructive Beginning" after P5+1 Talks with Iran.

Source: blogs.state.gov
Blogs.state.gov (Dipnote) offers the public an alternative source to mainstream media for U.S. foreign policy information.
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U.S. Mission Geneva The President's Address to the United Nations General Assembly

Source: www.whitehouse.gov
In this morning's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama covered a range of topics—all under the umbrella of his desire forleaders to recognize the "common future" of a world in which "the interests of peoples and nations are shared."
Edward Guerrero
Edward Guerrero
It was all Bull S***, he needs to start acting on the his words... We need help here not out there... They already took our jobs and what else does he want to give them... He talked about kids on sleeping because of fear - while are kids are waiting for the bank to take there houses because they kept our money and stifted us...
September 23 at 12:19pm
Jennifer Powell
Jennifer Powell
At least he didn't put anyone to sleep like Muammar al-Gaddafi!
September 23 at 3:33pm
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U.S. Mission Geneva Two new job openings at the U.S. Mission.

Source: geneva.usmission.gov
This is the application form to be used by “ordinarily resident” applicants for Locally Employed Staff positions at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland
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U.S. Mission Geneva Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Speech at the Brookings Institution in advance of the United Nations General Assembly - an ambitious agenda on arms control and non-proliferation.

Source: www.state.gov
Speech in Advance of the United Nations General Assembly
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U.S. Mission Geneva The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has announced that this year's Nansen Refugee prize will go to the late Senator Edward Kennedy.

Source: www.unhcr.org
GENEVA, September 15 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced Tuesday that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will go to the late Senator Edward Kennedy for his achievements as an unparalleled champion of refugee protection and assistance for more than 45 years.
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U.S. Mission Geneva The United States today assumed its seat on the Human Rights Council.

Source: geneva.usmission.gov
The United States is pleased to join the rest of our colleagues on the Human Rights Council. It is with a sense of mutual respect that we take our place on the Council, next to the friends and partners ...
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U.S. Mission Geneva The U.S. Mission has received some beautiful quilts for the Quilt Challenge exhibition to benefit the Global Fund! Visit the Quilt Challenge Facebook page to read more about this project and see great craftsmanship in the service of a good cause!

In support of the Global Fund, and to raise awareness about the efforts the Global Fund supports to combat these deadly pandemics, the U.S. Mission has initiated a quilt challenge with the theme “Making a Healthier World for our Children.” Quilters are invited to create quilts related to this theme, and to submit them for display at the United Nations in Geneva in November 2009.
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U.S. Mission Geneva President Obama has called on Americans to remember the innocent victims of 9/11 in a moment of silence at 14:46 today.
At the U.S. Mission in Geneva we remember with gratitude the sympathy received from the Geneva community in the days and weeks after the 9/11 attacks. At the time we created an album of some of the flowers and messages which were left in front of our building. We share it again below:

Source: geneva.usmission.gov
The following photo Album was created by U.S. Mission staff shortly after the September 11 attacks. It documents the flowers and messages of sympathy left at the gate U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva by the Geneva community following the September 11 attacks.
Adnan Lone
Adnan Lone
yes offcourse, they are still alive. they are always in our minds, and in our prayers. we can never forget those brave peoples.
September 12 at 9:06pm
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U.S. Mission Geneva Our "green team" enjoyed a tour of our sustainability projects with NYT reporter James Kanter during last week's World Climate Conference! Below is a just-published article from Kanter's Blog - "Green Inc. - Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line."

Source: greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com
The U.S. Mission in Geneva is festooned with solar panels and uses a frictionless, oil free chiller system.
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U.S. Mission Geneva The U.S. Mission now has a Flickr page with photos by Mission photographers which can be reproduced freely. We are currently featuring a set of photos of our delegation at the WCC-3.

Source: www.flickr.com
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.