Transport and General Workers Union delegate Jim Hancock urged the conference to give its time to matters it did have the power to influence.

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Unlike last year, when China sent its defence minister, Liang Guanglie, to the Shangri-La Dialogue, this year the highest-ranking Chinese delegate was a senior military academic, Lieutenant-General Ren Haiquan.

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The ceremony took place in the presence of Katalin Bogyay, President of the General Conference of UNESCO, Anders Ahnild, Ambassador Permanent Delegate of the Kingdom of Sweden to UNESCO and Samuel Pisar, UNESCO Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Education.

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The ceremony took place in the presence of the artist and photographer, Mr. Lois Lammerhuber, as well as Ms. Ursula Plassnik, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Austria to UNESCO, Mr. Martin Eichtinger, Director-General of the Cultural Department of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and Mr. Harald Stranzl, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Delegate of Austria to UNESCO.

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Finally, the Board proposed Katalin Bogyay, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO, as the Chairperson of the 36th session of the General Conference.

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He had enjoyed being attorney-general and holding various other top jobs, among them Britain's delegate to the United Nations during a particularly chilly time of the cold war.

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Katalin Bogyay, the Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO, was one of the vice presidents of the 35th session of the General Conference.

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