All the cantonal constitutions also inaugurate and promote human rights and freedoms through the continued obligation of the cantons and local self governance units to provide their full protection and implementation.

From this rostrum I would like to confirm that the standing commission of the People's National Assembly of Guinea Bissau has set the date of 1 October 2005 to inaugurate the president elect.

On March 5th, as part of the commemorations of the International Women's Day (March 8th), the SPM inaugurate the radio program Womankind The Many Faces of Brazilian Women , developed in partnership with Radio MEC.

In Benin, UNHCR, UNESCO and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) cooperated to inaugurate a summer course on international refugee and humanitarian law for government officials and NGO professionals at the university in Cotonou in mid 2005. Such programmes

Officially, I was there to inaugurate a reconstruction plan for buildings that had fallen into disrepair in the old buffer zone. More personally, I wanted to see for myself the divide that for too long had kept Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots apart.

In the context of the global struggle against racial discrimination, the speaker paid tribute to the bicentenary of the independence of Haiti, which had been achieved following a lengthy struggle by its people to overthrow slavery and oppression and inaugurate an era of freedom.