which country to host the 14th edition of united nations international day of vesak 2017
Sri Lanka
title: International Day of Vesak text: International Day of Vesak An international day of Vesak recognised by the United Nations became a reality only on 15 December 1999. Older English writings have used 'Wesak' for Vesak. Vesak falls on the full moon day of May. The proposal to declare Vesak as an international public holiday was tabled at the United Nations General Assembly by Sri Lanka. Vesak is the most important Buddhist holiday in the Buddhist calendar that celebrates three important events—the birth, full awakening, and the passing away—of the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. United Nations Day of Vesak is now internationally celebrated including in the title: International Day of Vesak text: UN offices and UNESCO. International celebrations since 2000 included the first Vesak celebration in the UN (New York) on 15 May 2000. 34 countries were represented. Thailand has hosted an international Vesak summit 11 times, Vietnam 2 times and Sri Lanka 1 time. International Day of Vesak An international day of Vesak recognised by the United Nations became a reality only on 15 December 1999. Older English writings have used 'Wesak' for Vesak. Vesak falls on the full moon day of May. The proposal to declare Vesak as an international public holiday was tabled at the United Nations General Assembly title: International Day of Charity text: UN Member States (Albania, Angola, Australia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Montenegro, Pakistan, Poland, Republic of Cyprus, Republic of Korea, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine) representing all five Regional Groups of the United Nations. In its resolution, the General Assembly invited Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, stakeholders, as well as NGOs of the civil society, to commemorate the International Day of Charity title: Seventieth anniversary of the United Nations text: Francisco. The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously elected its new president to Mogens Lykketoft who is Denmark’s former parliament speaker for the 70th anniversary session. He took the office in September after replacing Sam Kutesa of Uganda, the former president of UN general assembly. The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is given the planning of the celebration related events and special activities which are planned to be held for a period of 16 months. Some of them includes the celebrations of the International day of Peace on 21 September and others. World Environment Day was celebrated in Istanbul on title: International Day of Peace text: internet reports about 562 celebrations of the International Day of Peace from 127 countries around the world this year. These included 128 events coming from most of the provinces and states in Canada and the USA. Next were the countries formerly part of the Soviet Union with 104. There were 96 events cited in 27 European countries, 81 from 29 African countries, 67 from 20 Asian countries, 58 from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries, and 28 from 21 Arab and Middle Eastern countries. The 2018 U.N. Peace Day Theme is "The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of