New York, Jan 25 2010 4:10PM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement from Buckingham Palace that Queen Elizabeth II will visit United Nations Headquarters in New York in July.
The British monarch is slated to address the 192-member General Assembly on 6 July for the first time in over 50 years.
As the head of State of the United Kingdom and 15 other UN member states, the only other time the Queen addressed the General Assembly was in 1957.
"He looks forward to receiving Her Majesty personally on this historic occasion," the spokesperson for the Secretary-General said in a <"http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=4357">statement issued today.
Jan 25 2010 4:10PM
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