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Note No. 6299
Seventeen years ago, in 1994, in the space of three months, an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in Rwanda, in what came to be known as the Rwanda genocide. In observance of the seventeenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, a commemoration will take place in the Economic and Social Council Chamber at United Nations Headquarters, on Thursday, 7 April, from 5 to 6 p.m.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Nairobi in the evening of Thursday, 30 March, from London. The following morning, the Secretary-General launched his report on HIV/AIDS ahead of the high-level meeting on the topic at the General Assembly in June.