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Youth SAY NO TO VIOLENCE at 16. Sarajevo Film Festival Family Day
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8/17/2010 UNIFEM (part of UN Women) supported the activities of 14 young volunteers from Sarajevo and Tuzla during the Sarajevo Film Festival, encouraging young people to take action against gender-based violence and promote gender equality through the SAY NO – UNiTE campaign.
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Visit to the Intercultural Camp for Children
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8/13/2010 Representatives of the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development visited the first intercultural camp in Strgačina, Rudo Municipality, which will host 280 children from entire BiH. The place of gathering and learning through workshops and performances was created by restoration of once abandoned school, as a part of the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development.
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World Youth Day Media Statement
United Nations Population Fund, Country Office Bosnia and Herzegovina
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8/12/2010 Today, on the International Day of Youth, and every day, young people are searching for opportunities to pursue and fulfill their dreams. Like their peers across the globe, the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina yearn for new knowledge, skills and opportunities to develop to their fullest potential. They constitute almost one quarter of total of the country’s population.
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UN Resident Coordinator presented Millenium Development Goals at STC
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7/31/2010 4th Sarajevo Talent Campus, Sarajevo Film Festival’s Programme intended for young film professionals, launched in cooperation with Berlinale Talent Campus and International Film Festival in Berlin, closed on Saturday (July 31).
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"Gardens of Stolac, Garden of Europe" MoU Signed
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7/13/2010 Yuri Afanasiev, Resident Coordinator of UN to BiH, H.E. Maryse Berniau, Ambassador of Republic of France to BiH and Nicolas Moll, Deputy Director of the Centre Andre Malraux signed the Memorandum of Understanding on implementation of “Gardens of Stolac, Garden of Europe” project under the umbrella of MDG-F Programme Culture for Development, in the Embassy of France in Sarajevo.
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World Population Day 2010: Everyone Counts
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7/11/2010 SARAJEVO— This July 11 marks 21 years since World Population Day, established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, seeking to raise awareness of global population issues in relation to development.
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UN creates new structure for empowerment of women
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7/2/2010 United Nations, New York. In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously today to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.
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Workshop “Handicrafts as a Factor of Socio-Economic Development and Employment Generation” Held
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7/1/2010 Arts and crafts as a factor contributing to cultural heritage and cultural tourism and as a tool for achieving the MDGs were the main topics of three day workshop held by MDG-F Programme Culture for Development between June 29th and July 1st, 2010 in Sarajevo This was the second workshop aiming to build capacities of artistic entrepreneurs from 23 municipalities countrywide that are either implementing the Programme, or their project applications were among the highest rated in the Programme’s selection process.
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MDG-F program to improve water access for 240,000 residents of BiH
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6/30/2010 Yuri Afanasiev, UN Resident Coordinator, Mladen Zirojević, BiH Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations and representatives of 13 partner municipalities signed Memorandums of Understanding for the implementation of the project called “Securing Access to Water through Institutional Development and Infrastructure”, with approximate value of 4.45 million USD.
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YERP Presented at Public Debate on Brain Gain
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6/24/2010 “Bosnia and Herzegovina needs a systematic approach and problem solving to bring back and keep experts and young people stay in country” was the main conclusion of the open debate in which the MDG-F Programme Youth Employment and Retention (YERP) was presented.
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"EU Culture Program 2007-2013" introduced to Culture workers in BiH
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6/14/2010 MDG-F Programme Culture for Development and Ministry of Civil Affairs in BiH in cooperation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary and Hungarian International Development Agency (HUN-IDA) organized seminars on EU Culture Program 2007-2013 in Prijedor, Tuzla and Mostar in the period from 7-11 June 2010. The seminars were attended by 78 participants from cultural institutions (ministries, museums, theaters, libraries etc.) as well from the civil society organizations (Roma NGOs, foundations, etc.).
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MDG-F Culture for Development and British Council signed MoU
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6/3/2010 Yuri Afanasiev, Resident Coordinator of UN to BiH and Michael Moore, Director of the British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a Memorandum of Understanding under the umbrella of MDG-F Programme Culture for Development. The memorandum outlines a set of programmatic activities under the Intercultural Navigator’s training methodology developed by the British Council and jointly implemented by the two parties in order to train local stakeholders, representatives of local, entity and state authorities and civil society on a variety of skills ranging from leadership to conflict management in multicultural environment.
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Regional Conference "Roma Language and Culture: Past, Present and Future"
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6/2/2010 Regional Conference “Roma Language and Culture – Past, Present and Future“ has been organized in Sarajevo on June 1st and 2nd by MDG-F Programme Culture for Development, NGO “Kali Sara” and OSCE. The goal of the conference was to promote standardization of the Roma language. More than 20 well-known experts on Roma sciences, linguistics and representatives of BiH institutions and organizations attended the conference.
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MDG-F Democratic Economic Governance held Inception Workshop in Neum
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6/1/2010 More than sixty representatives of all administrative levels countrywide gathered at the Inception Workshop of MDG-F Democratic Economic Governance Programme “Securing Access to Water through Institutional Development and Infrastructure” held in Neum from 25-27 May at the hotel Zenit.
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Key partners of MDG-F Culture for Development visited culture institutions in Spain
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5/31/2010 Intense 5-day study visit was organized from May 24th to 28th by the Spanish Cooperation for Development and UN MDG-F Programme to enable transfer of knowledge and experiences from Spanish Culture institutions to representatives from key government institutions in BiH. Chief of Cabinet, Assistant Minister and head of Department for Culture from Ministry of Civil Affairs at state level as well as assistant ministers from entity ministries of culture together with Directors of Institutes for Protection of Culture heritage in both entities were jointly with mayors from selected municipalities attended meetings and workshops in important cultural institutions of Spain.
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MDG-F Programme Culture for Development Organized Workshop in Sarajevo
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5/20/2010
The MDG-F Programme Culture for Development held the workshop “Capacities Building for Cultural Operators” in Sarajevo at Joint Institutions Building in the period May 18 – 20, 2010.
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Developing a Law on Volunteerism for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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5/18/2010 Yuri Afanasiev, Resident Coordinator of UN to BiH, and UNV Country Office for BiH personnel met with Vice-Present Spomenka Mićić to discuss the next steps to realizing legislation on volunteerism in the FBiH. All partiesto guide and protect the activities of volunteers in FBiH. Volunteerism, and the voluntary contribution of individuals, represents an invaluable social force with the potential to bring benefit to individuals while enhancing the bonds among all citizens in BiH.
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MDG-F Democratic Economic Governance of Water Access Selects Partner Municipalities
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5/18/2010 The selection of partner municipalities to participate in the MDG-F Programme Democratic Economic Governance of Water Access has been finalized at the meeting of the Programme’s Management Committee at May 11, 2010 in Sarajevo.
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UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND AND BiH PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CALL FOR INCREASED ACTION
TO SUPPORT THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN FULFILLING THEIR RIGHTS TO HAPPY AND FULFILLING FAMILY LIFE
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5/15/2010 SARAJEVO — May 15 is a day when we celebrate the Family, the basic unit of society, world-wide. The rights of individuals to quality family life are protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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MDG-F Programme Culture for Development organizes Monitoring and Project Implementation Workshop
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5/10/2010 A two day monitoring and project implementation workshop organized by the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development started today in the BiH Parliament Building in Sarajevo, with more than 30 participants from state, entity and local level of administration, as well as representatives of the civil society organizations.
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International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2010 - The World Needs Midwives Now More than Ever
Joint message of Faris Hadrović, Assistant Representative of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Sejda Džino, Chairperson of Association of Midwives (AM) of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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5/6/2010 Each year, globally, hundreds of thousands of women die and three million newborns do not survive the first week of life because they lack access to maternity health services and skilled midwifery care. For every tragic maternal death, another 20 women face serious or long-lasting illness or disabilities such as obstetric fistula.
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MDG-F Programme Culture for Development Signs Contract with Sarajevo Film Festival
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5/4/2010 Yuri Afanasiev, Resident Coordinator of UN to BiH and Mirsad Purivatra Director of Sarajevo Film Festival signed a contract within which MDG-F Programme Culture for Development will finance production of a short fiction film within the Sarajevo Talent Campus. Total value of the contract is approximately 40,000 KM. The Programme is financed by the Spanish Fund for Achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDG-F).
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MDGF Culture for Development Programme supports the International Conference on Intercultural dialogue and Internal Security
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4/28/2010 Ministers of Security from 14 countries in Europe participated in the opening of the international conference on Intercultural dialogue at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. High delegations from Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Slovenia were hosted by their host Minister Sadik Ahmetovic, Minister of Security, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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New Piano Makes Gradiška's Culture Life Richer
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4/26/2010 The new concert piano provided through the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development was promoted in Gradiška Culture Center's Concert Hall before more that 150 viewers. The specter of the new instrument worth 75,000 KM was presented by performances of members of the RS Association of Musicians and Chamber Orchestra “Bel Canto” who played some of the famous contemporary music pieces.
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ANGELINA JOLIE MEETS DISPLACED FAMILIES IN BOSNIA STILL STRUGGLING TO FIND A HOME
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, traveling with her partner Brad Pitt, on Monday visited internally displaced people and returnees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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4/6/2010 Jolie’s trip came over fourteen years after the end of the war that ravaged this Balkan country. She took a break from working on her latest movie to highlight the plight of 113,000 Bosnians displaced from their homes and 7,000 refugees from Croatia, many of whom are living in collective centres, often in appalling conditions.
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UNICEF Reiterates: Landmines Kill, Injure and Orphan Children
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4/2/2010 Sarajevo – On the occasion of the April 4, International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, UNICEF and its partners reiterate that landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to represent a high risk in affected communities. As UN Secretary General stresses these indiscriminate weapons cause grievous injuries and death, hamper reconstruction, damage the environment, and are an obstacle to socioeconomic and development activities long after conflicts have ended. Over 5000 people in the world were killed or maimed by landmines in 2008. Children - particularly boys - are most likely to be harmed and account for some 30 per cent of all victims of landmines.
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UNV-UNDP Roundtable – Building Volunteerism and Social Inclusion
UNV and UNDP hosted the first in a series of UNV-UNDP roundtables at UN House, exploring the links between volunteerism and the development of inclusive social capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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3/31/2010 Sarajevo - The event brought together representatives from Sarajevo area volunteer involving and civil society organizations, educational institutions, FBiH Ministry of Justice (Civil Society Sector), OSCE, UNDP and UNV. It provided an invaluable opportunity to share ideas and experiences, and identify concrete measures with which to foster and support volunteerism and civic engagement in BiH.
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UN Resident Coordinator a.i. and Director of the MDG-F Secretariat visit Tešanj Municipality
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2/6/2010 Florance Bauer, Resident Coordinator UN a.i. and Sophie de Caen, Director of the MDG-F Secretariat from New York have visited Tešanj Municipality. This municipality started the implementation of the Culture for Development Programme that is being financed through the Millennium Development Goals Fund of the Kingdom of Spain.
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The Intercultural Festival held in Sarajevo - MDG-F Programme Culture for Development
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1/30/2010 More than 250 students and teachers from primary schools in 9 municipalities participated in the Intercultural Festival that was launched in Sarajevo at the International Center for Children and Youth. The Festival’s goal is to present the richness one customs and tradition of the peoples and minority groups in B-H, as well as to promote the development and protection of the minority rights, coexistence and tolerance. The Festival is organized within the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development.
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Agreements for rehabilitation of five monuments signed within the MDG-F Programme Culture and Development
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12/22/2009 Within the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development, UNESCO signed agreements on rehabilitation of five monuments with the designated representatives of municipalities and institutions. Along with the signing parties, the ceremony was attended by Biljana Čamur, Assistant to the Civil Affairs Minister of BH, Angela Petrović, Assistant to the Minister of Culture and Sports of FBiH, Irena Soldat-Vujanović, Assistant of Minister of Culture of RS, as well as representatives of the MDG-F Programme Culture and Development titled “Improving Cultural Understanding in BH“.
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UN in BiH marks 30th anniversary of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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12/18/2009 The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted on the 18th of December 1979 by the UN General Assembly. To date, 186 countries have ratified the Convention. CEDAW remains the essential international tool for achieving women’s human rights and it is one of the most widely subscribed-to international treaties in existence. Countries that have ratified or acceded to the Convention are legally bound to put its provisions into practice. They are also committed to submit national reports, at least every four years, on measures they have taken to comply with their treaty obligations.
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The Secretary-General Video Message on Human Rights Day
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12/10/2009 The realization of all human rights - social, economic and cultural as well as civil and political rights – is hampered by discrimination. All too often, when faced with prejudice and discrimination, political leaders, governments and ordinary citizens are silent or complacent. Yet everyone of us can make a difference.
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Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009
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12/7/2009 The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) will be a turning point in the fight to prevent climate disaster. The science demands it, the economics support it, future generations require it. Today, negotiators, ministers and world leaders assembled in the Danish capital to give the people of all nations a strong answer to this common, global threat of climate change.
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MDG-F Programme Youth Employability and Retention (YERP) Signed
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12/1/2009
Florence Bauer, UN Resident Coordinator a.i. and Sredoje Nović, Minister of Civil Affairs of BH, in presence of H.E. Alejandro Alvargonzález San Martin, Ambassador of Kingdom of Spain to BH, signed the MDG-F Programme Youth Employability and Retention (YERP), with an estimated value of 6 (six) million USD.
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UN Secretary-General message on the November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
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11/25/2009
In the ten years since the United Nations General Assembly designated 25th November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, engagement has increased. More groups and individuals, including men and boys, are getting involved in efforts to prevent and address this severe violation of women’s human rights. Overall there has been significant progress as many countries have adopted laws and comprehensive action plans directly addressing violence against women.
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First meeting of the Programme Management Committee of MDG-F Economic Governance held in Sarajevo
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11/23/2009
First meeting of the Programme Management Committee of MDG-F Economic
Governance named Securing Access to Water
through Institutional Development and Infrastructure was held today in
Sarajevo, chaired by Mr. Naveed Hussain, UN Resident Coordinator, a.i..
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Conference on competences of teachers for inclusive and intercultural education
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11/23/2009 The one-day conference on competences of teachers for inclusive and intercultural education is being held in Sarajevo today, as a part of the MDG F Culture for Development programme.
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The three-day workshop for 10 municipalities within the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development launched
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11/10/2009 The three-day workshop for capacity building of 10 municipalities started today in hotel Grand, Sarajevo. The goal of the workshop is to define priorities and plans of activities within the implementation of the MDG-F Programme Culture for Development called “Improving Cultural Understanding in BH“, implemented by three UN agencies: UNDP, UNICEF and UNESCO.
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The MDG-F Economic Governance and Environment and Climate Change programmes, and UNDP project BiH Biomass Energy for Employment and Energy Security signed
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10/21/2009 The UN Resident Coordinator Christine McNab and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Mladen Zirojević, in the presence of H. E. Ambassador of Kingdom of Spain Alejandro Alvargonzález San Martin, signed programme documents for two MDG-F programmes: Economic Governance and Environment and Climate Change, as well as UNDP project BH Biomass Energy for Employment and Energy Security, with the total estimate value of 11 (eleven) million USD.
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Memorandum of Understanding for the MDG-F Programme Culture and Development signed with 10 municipalities
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10/20/2009 The UN Resident Coordinator Christine McNab, Minister of Civil Affairs of BH Sredoje Nović, Assistant to Federal Minister of Culture and Sport Zdenko Čabrilo, Assistant to the RS Minister for Culture Irena Soldat-Vujanović, representatives of the UNDP, UNICEF and UNESCO signed Memorandums of Understanding with 10 municipalities for the implementation of the project called “Improving Cultural Understanding in BH“.
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