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Remarks by the UN Secretary- General António Guterres to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the International Court of Justice 

Your Majesty, Mr. President, Distinguished Judges, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Moments of crisis are moments of choice.  They reveal who we are – and what we stand for. Today, we come together in the quiet dignity of a city that is synonymous with justice and international law. But it is easy to forget the world of eighty years ago. Europe – and far beyond – lay in ruins. The Hague itself was scarred and shaken. And yet, in that dark and difficult moment, world leaders made a defining choice. A choice to reject a future ruled by coercion and violence…

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Exhibition of Miao Embroidery Collection by Du Fei Opening Soon in Vienna

Miao embroidery, visually colorful and captivating, is an ancient art by the Miao people in China. Geometrically symmetrical, aesthetically imaginative and technically complicated, it is a unique, encyclopedia-like means to document the long history of Miao’s who does not have a written language of their own’s throughout history. The exhibition opening at Kunstraum Feller on 24. September in Vienna will exhibit a valuable collection of Miao embroidery by Ms. Mag. Du Fei in the late 1970s and 1980s. During this time, she traveled to many places in Guizhou, particularly the remote gathering places of the Miao ethnic group. Among the…