UNAMA Featured Photos: The women’s committee of the High Peace Council, an Afghan body leading the country’s peace efforts, today submitted a petition – containing the signatures of more than 250,000 Afghan women and girls calling for peace and a cease-fire – to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for onward transmission to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The committee members indicated that they will also seek to present the petition to President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban. In accepting the petition at UNAMA offices in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Mr. Ban’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, said, “While I assure you that we in the United Nations will give serious consideration to this petition – it is also a hope that the leaders of Afghanistan and the leaders of the armed opposition groups will also hear the women through this petition.” For more: bit.ly/1cxyzXZ
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:55:39 +0000
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