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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, in the evening of 16 January. They were the guests a few hours later of Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Chief Executive Officer of the Masdar Corporation and Deputy Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, at a dinner in their honour.

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The following statement was issued by the Middle East Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union):
Note No. 6293
On 10 February, the United Nations Department of Public Information will honour women of the Holocaust at the sixth annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in a ceremony to be held in the General Assembly Hall from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The ceremony had originally been scheduled for 27 January, but had to be cancelled due to the closure of the United Nations Headquarters building as a result of inclement weather.