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25th U Giru de Natale
On Sunday 15 December, Bastien Isaia, President of the Monaco Police Sports Association, and his team organised the twenty-fifth traditional U Giru de Natale race in the streets of the Principality.The event proved to be a huge success, with more than 1,600 competitors lining up at the start (on Boulevard Albert I)....
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The Online Ticket Office for the 2020 Herculis EBS Meeting is Now Open
The 11th stage of the Diamond League, the 2020 Herculis EBS meeting, will take place on Friday 10 July 2020. Fans can purchase their precious entry tickets from now on, enabling them to watch the elite of world athletics at the Louis II Stadium.In 2019, the loyal Monegasque spectators at the Herculis EBS meeting wer...
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Monaco Acquires Two Connected Sports Facilities and a Parkour Play Area
The new connected MonaMove sports facility and the Parkour play area, situated on the Esplanade Stefano Casiraghi, on the new sea wall, were inaugurated today in the presence of Marie-PierreGramaglia, Minister of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development, FrédéricGenta, Country Chief Digital Officer, and t...
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COP25 - Monaco Takes Part in the High-Level Segment of the 25th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
On 11 December, as part of the high-level segment of COP25, which is currently taking place in Madrid, H.E. Mr. Jean-Luc Van Klaveren, Ambassador of Monaco to Spain, delivered the Principality's national speech. In particular, the Ambassador gave details of the Prince'sGovernment's action plan to reduce greenhouse g...
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A Delegation of Firefighters from Monaco Travels to Lugano
Fifteen years after the signing of a Twinning Agreement between the Monaco Fire and Emergency Service and the Lugano Fire Brigade*, a delegation visited Lugano in Ticino on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December.The delegation, led by Patrice Cellario, Minister of Interior, and Colonel Tony Varo, Supreme Commander of the...
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Monaco Takes Part in International Mountain Day
11 December was declared International Mountain Day by the United Nations General Assembly. Monaco, which has acceded to the Convention on the Protection of the Alps, and which is located at the end of the Alpine arc, wished to mark this event with an exhibition on the subject of the mountains.From 11 December 2019...
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A Study on Marine Protected Areas is Presented to the Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations
On 4 December 2019, at a meeting of the Group of Friends of Oceans and Seas*, Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Professor at the University of Stony Brook, New York, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance, presented a study entitled "Gaps in Protection of Important Ocean Areas**" to the Permanent Mi...
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A Study on Marine Protected Areas is Presented to the Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations
The Permanent Mission of Monaco to the UN receives the President of the International Olympic Committee and the President of the Organising Committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic GamesOn Monday 9 December, prior to the adoption by the General Assembly of a resolution on the Olympic Truce, a meeting of th...
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The Charter on Wood rewards its 2019 prize-winners
On 5 December, the Prince Albert II Foundation, the Prince's Government, the MC2D association and IMEDD were host to the signatories of the Charter on Wood, which is part of the "Monaco Against Deforestation" initiative, at their annual meeting. The Charter on Wood invites Monegasque companies to promote t...
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Visit by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
On Friday 6 December 2019, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs received a visit from a representative of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), with a view to exploring opportunities for collaboration.This international body, which is linked to the World Health Organization (WHO), focuses its...
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