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

BBC: No Iraq debate for conference

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.

ECONOMIST: Military diplomacy

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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