During the first day of the programme, participants will meet in Venice at the UNESCO Regional Office where they will be introduced to the World Heritage (WH) and MAB Biosphere Reserve (BR) designation schemes.

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June 21st is the first day of summer and we want to remind the administration that we expect them to meet their own deadline.

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On Monday, more than 40 callers came to the Mom2Mom headquarters -- a call center -- in Piscataway, New Jersey, to meet their counselors in at an event to allow peer partners to meet each other for the first time, in honor of Mother's Day.

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The blast came a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for talks in Delhi - their first formal negotiations since the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.

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The three-day summit hosted by France provided the first opportunity for some of the leaders - notably the US and French presidents - to meet since sharp differences developed over military action in Iraq.

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