Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly on the Occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

A/DEC/71/550View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 119 Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, published in 2017.

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2026	A/DEC/80/531	Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	—	—
2022	A/DEC/76/557	Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	87	75%Compare
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At its 73rd plenary meeting, on 24 March 2017, the General Assembly decided, without setting a precedent, to invite Mr. Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, to make a keynote statement at the commemorative meeting.

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