In Khartoum today, Mr. Brennan and Sudan Special Envoy Ambassador Princeton Lyman met with Sudanese government officials to discuss implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

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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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Angelina Jolie is renowned as an Academy Award winning actress, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and, as of April 2012, a special envoy to the High Commissioner of the UNHCR, the UN's special agency for refugees, a growing global crisis.

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From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Menkerios represented the Eritrean Government in various capacities, including as Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Organisation of African Unity, Special Envoy to Somalia and also the Great Lakes region, and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

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Mitchell, a former U.S. senator who is Obama's special Middle East envoy, visited Syria two weeks before the June announcement about returning an ambassador to the country.

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Also in attendance at the meetings was Ambassador Ian Kelly, the U.S. Representative to the OSCE, as well as Ambassador Michael Kozak, a senior adviser on human rights who is serving as the acting special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.

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