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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">January 21, 2005 <i>(10:40 a.m. EST)</i><br>
No. 14</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">PETTIGREW TO TAKE PART IN COMMEMORATION OF LIBERATION
OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew today announced that he will deliver Canada’s
statement at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in
commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration
camps, to take place in New York on January 24. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">“This special session will be a solemn occasion, the first of its kind in recent memory,
where representatives from around the world will pause to remember this dark chapter
in our history and recommit to the principles and noble ideals upon which the United
Nations was founded,” said Minister Pettigrew. “As we commemorate the 60th
anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, we must renew our determination
to build a better world and a greater United Nations to ensure such crimes never occur
again.”</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">The special session was initially requested by Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the
United States, the European Union, Russia and Israel.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Event:</span><span>          </span>Statement by Minister Pettigrew</span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Date</span>:<span>            </span>Monday, January 24, 2005</span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Time</span>:<span>            </span>Approximately 12:00 noon </span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Location</span>: <span> </span>General Assembly</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>                     </span>United Nations Headquarters</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>                     </span>New York, New York</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">For further information, media representatives may contact:</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Sébastien Théberge<br>
Director of Communications<br>
Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs<br>
(613) 995-1851</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Media Relations Office<br>
Foreign Affairs Canada<br>
(613) 995-1874<br>
</span></span><a href="https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20070221034915/http://www.international.gc.ca/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: underline">http://www.international.gc.ca</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p>
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