The Chronicle interview.(Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa)(Interview)
From: UN Chronicle
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Date: 9/1/2006
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Author: Pont, Amy; Rutsch, Horst; Witcher, Pureterrah
SHEIKHA HAYA RASHED AL KHALIFA of Bahrain was unanimously elected President of the sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly on 8 June 2006, taking over from Jan Eliasson of Sweden when the Assembly opened on 12 September. She is the first female to hold such position since 1969, when Angie Elisabeth Brooks of Liberia was appointed to the presidency, and one of only three women to ever serve as Assembly President--the first was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India in 1953 ...
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