Bonn,
24 October 2010 - The AEWA Secretariat joined 18
UN Bonn-based agencies and several other international
organizations in celebrating the annual UN Day in Bonn
this weekend.

UN Day is celebrated globally to highlight
the aims and achievements of the United Nations. The day
marks the anniversary
of the signing of the UN Charter on 24 October 1945 and
has been observed annually in Bonn since the city became
a host city to several United Nations organizations in
1996.

With this year’s theme “8:0 for development – If
not me who else?” the UN Day focused on the personal
engagement of all of us to make this a better world and
to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, which include
stopping extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental
sustainability.

Thousands of people attended this year’s
festivities in the city centre of Bonn, which took place
on Bonn's “Marktplatz”.
Accompanied by a colourful variety of entertainment, including
music and dance performances from around the world, visitors
got the chance to find out more about the different activities
and goals of the various UN Bonn organizations and received
give-aways, such as posters, stickers and other information
material. Among the more prominent visitors to the AEWA
stand at this year’s UN Day were Ms. Flavia Pansieri,
Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers
and current Head of the UN Agencies in Germany and also
the Lord Mayor of Bonn, Mr. Jürgen Nimptsch.

The AEWA Secretariat shared an exhibition
tent with the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS),
its other Bonn-based Agreements and several other UN Bonn
organizations,
programmes and offices, for instance, with the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
or and the United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV).