The mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos and the president of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall, inaugurated on 27 June 2006 a new United Nations office, part of the project for the Millennium Development Goals: a declaration which is based on eight points to eradicate poverty in the world. The other offices are in New York, Washington, London and Paris.
The exhibition is organized by the Barcelona Solidarity Medicine Foundation, in collaboration with the House of Asia (Casa Asia), in the context of a project integrating teaching and technologies to combat cardiovascular disease that will be developed in Mongolia in 2006-2007. It features contemporary Mongolian painters.
Environment Award
The Environment Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya was created in September 2005 to give public recognition to the work carried out by individuals, entities or institutions in the promotion of the environment. For its first edition, it will consider research projects or initiatives related to the environment friendly administration of water and the sustainability of edification. The annual award of the Catalan Agency on waste disposal for initiatives in the reduction and recycling of waste disposal will also be given the same day.
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An international contest has been organized by a catalan association in
