UN kicks off five-year project to overhaul headquarters

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-06 11:41


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (third right), representatives of member states and the host country - the United States, and other senior UN officials attend the ground-breaking ceremony of a temporary conference building at the North Lawn of the UN headquarters in New York May 6, 2008. The building will be completed in 2013. It is the first headquarters overhaul since its completion in 1950s. [Xinhua] 

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