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	The Tico Times Online Daily Page
		Mayor was honored “for his exceptional support of the development of a culture founded in the principles of solidarity, mutual understanding and dialogue, and his dedication to public higher education,” UNA rector Sonia Marta Mora said in a statement.
		Mayor believes education is fundamental to citizen action, which he says is the cornerstone of democracy.
		Mayor, who was born in Spain in 1934, has a background in biochemistry and molecular biology.
	www.ticotimes.net /dailyarchive/2004_09/Week3/daily_09_17_04.htm (1313 words)

	Federico Mayor Zaragoza says Porto Alegre is the hope for a better world · Forum 2004
		Federico Mayor Zaragoza quoted four Catalan poets—Salvador Espriu, Miquel Martí i Pol, Jordi Massip, and Joan Maragall—during his reflections on freedom; a global perspective of society; the public’s involvement; and, the human scale of cities (large and small) city centers, and outskirts.
		Mayor Zaragoza called for citizens to be more active, involved and educated and alluded to the words of Jordi Massip, “when you return, may the hours not find you docile.” The need for a culture of commitment is, in the eyes of Mayor Zaragoza, a need of our times.
		Mayor Zaragoza followed this quote by stating that “culture is the primary monument of the human race” and delighted over the fact that this is precisely the goal of Universal Forum of Cultures — Barcelona 2004.
	www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f041610.htm (402 words)

	Mayor Presidential Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the 17th of November, 1994, Federico Mayor, the Direcotor General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) gave a Presidential Lecture in the Sun Room of the Iowa Sate University Memorial Union.
		Federico Mayor is the Direcotor General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Origanization) which has 171 member states and a prime objective of achieving peace through international intellectual cooperation.
		Federico Mayor is a biochemist who has taugh at the University of Granada, Oxford's Trinity College and the Autonomous University of Madrid.
	www.iitap.iastate.edu /reports/mayor/mayor.html (203 words)

	Federico Mayor Zaragosa Biography / Biography of Federico Mayor Zaragosa Biography
		The Spanish biochemist Federico Mayor Zaragosa (born 1934) served on various medical and scientific advisory committees and in the Spanish government before beginning his association with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
		Federico Mayor Zaragosa was born in Barcelona, Spain, the capital of Catalonia province, on January 27, 1934.
		In June 1963 Mayor was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Granada and in 1967 he headed the interdisciplinary Department of Pharmacy and Natural Sciences at the university.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-federico-mayor-zaragosa (230 words)

	UNESCO - Federico Mayor Zaragoza - United Nations - Worldpress.org
		In an age of terrorism and pre-emptive wars, Federico Mayor Zaragoza stands out as something of an anomaly: he is an unapologetic believer in, and proponent of, peace.
		From 1987 to 1999, Mayor served as the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an institution that he reformed substantially during his tenure.
		Federico Mayor Zaragoza: I would tell the Americans that we liked their Pax Americana in 1945, and that we detest this one in 2003.
	www.worldpress.org /Europe/1731.cfm (1732 words)

	Federico Mayor Zaragoza proposes restructuring the United Nations to make it stronger · Forum 2004
		Ocampo holds that the UN should continue to be a legitimate forum that acts as a link between governments and civil society, but that it should overcome two obstacles, the fragmentation between agencies and bodies and the fact that citizens have no control so as to demand compliance with resolutions.
		Federico Mayor Zaragoza, president of Foundation for a Culture of Peace, expressed his will for international institutions to take on reforms and adapt to a changed world.
		Mayor Zaragoza mentioned that the UN was founded with great hope, but that it has lost its initial momentum over time.
	www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f046012.htm (420 words)

	FEDERICO MAYOR RECEIVES PERES CENTER FOR PEACE PRIZE FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE {10 November 1999} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Paris, November 9 {No.99-252} - UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor today became the first ever recipient of the Peres Center for Peace Award, receiving it from former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres in a ceremony at Organization Headquarters.
		Mr Mayor said that after meeting separately both Mr Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, he was struck by the fact that both men had told him that "we must live with our neighbours and we must live together".
		Mr Mayor said he hoped that in the future he would be able to work on similar issues as those dealt with by the Peres Center for Peace.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/99-252e.htm (346 words)

	Denver History - Federico Pena
		The son of a cotton broker, Federico Peña moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas, where he grew up.
		Federico graduated from the University of Texas Law School and served briefly as a legal aid lawyer in El Paso and, after 1973, in Denver.
		Federico Peña proved to be one of Denver’s most ambitious, energetic and able mayors.
	www.denvergov.org /AboutDenver/history_char_pena.asp (241 words)

	FEDERICO MAYOR AND CHILEAN PRESIDENT FREI DISCUSS EDUCATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Paris, April 12 {No.97-58} - The President of Chile, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle - on a two-day state visit to France - and UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor met today at the Paris residence of guests of the French state, the Hôtel Marigny, and discussed all aspects of education.
		Mayor for his part spoke about his visit to Washington earlier this week, where he discussed the need to prioritise civic education without neglecting the technical education which students presently receive, and pointed to the need to include the values of "merit and effort" in higher education.
		At the end of their meeting, the Director-General asked President Frei for Chile’s support for the signature, at the next Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government (at Isla Margarita, Venezuela, next November), of a Declaration commemorating the General History of Latin America, a major UNESCO publishing project.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/97-58e.htm (353 words)

	UNESCO Director-General Urges Greater Role For Scientists In Public Policy
		Mayor told the board, which includes seven Nobel laureates among its current 56 members from 26 countries from every world region.
		Mayor created the open-ended board to advise UNESCO on strategic issues of science, recommend activities to promote, share and apply scientific knowledge, and propose themes and objectives of a World Science Conference planned by UNESCO for 1998-1999.
		Mayor argued that such a World Science Conference should call for a few "very clear proposals that will be a challenge for decision-makers to adopt" and include the widest possible range of participants: "those who should be the beneficiaries must also be the protagonists of the conference."
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-01/U-UDUG-230197.php (878 words)

	World Goodwill: Newsletter - 1997, No. 3
		Federico Mayor has said: "Our schools must be revered places of learning and their most valuable lessons are those that teach the wisdom of peace and the folly of war."
		Federico Mayor: Clearly, our ability to map the genome of flora and fauna and now, to make significant advances in mapping the human genome are among the most dramatic scientific advances of all time.
		Federico Mayor: Cultural diversity is the wealth we have inherited and must pass on to future generations.
	www.lucistrust.org /goodwill/wgnl973.shtml (6243 words)

	Director-General f UNESCO Rules Out Human Cloning
		Paris - UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor, in response to the debate unleashed by the successful cloning of an adult sheep, has issued a declaration stating this technology must not be applied to humans.
		The draft proposal of this international instrument, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), has recently been sent to all the Member States of UNESCO and the United Nations Organization.
		Federico Mayor has also informed the Executive Board of UNESCO, that, after consulting leading medical experts, he intends to propose to the Organization's next General Conference in October 1997 that a world commission on ethics and science be set up to tackle issues of scientific developments beyond genetics.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-03/U-DfUR-100397.php (359 words)

	Federico Mayor Zaragoza: Education, the cornerstone of democracy
		Federico Mayor Zaragoza: Education, the cornerstone of democracy
		First and foremost, we need to ask what democracy actually is. The term democracy is of Greek origin and means ‘the people’.
		We must try to finally put into practice what I said at the beginning, without violence: “We, the peoples, have decided to spare our children the horror of war”.
	www.uoc.edu /web/eng/articles/mayor_zaragoza.html (2738 words)

	MayorVisserDialogue
		Editors of the book are P. Mayor Menéndez and J. Areilza Carvajal.
		The book contains a chapter by Federico Mayor and Jan Visser with the above title (Education and learning in a time of new information and communication media: A dialogue between Federico Mayor and Jan Visser).
		Federico Mayor Zaragoza is Founding President of the Culture of Peace Foundation and former Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (
	www.learndev.org /MayorVisserDialogue.html (219 words)

	gaspar mayor - ResearchIndex document query (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		village Hengelo to grow until it became one of the mayor cities in the east of the Netherlands.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Gaspar+Mayor (654 words)

	News
		Federico Mayor-Zaragoza, former director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), paid a courtesy visit to Leonel Fernández, president of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE).
		Federico Mayor-Zaragoza and Leonel Fernández also addressed the issue on joint projects and cooperation by and between, Fundación Cultura de Paz and Funglode, which they preside, respectively.
		Further, they shared opinions and ideas on the task undertaken by the network of networks "UBUNTU," created and presided by Mayor-Zaragoza, and an organization that Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo joined in March 2002.
	www.funglode.org /english/news/2002/05/mayorza.htm (194 words)

	Overview of IITAP/EES given by Dr. Gene Takle during the visit of Dr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO, to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Overview of IITAP/EES given by Dr. Gene Takle during the visit of Dr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO, to the Intercomparison Workshop, November 17, 1994
		Mayor, I would like you to meet Dr. Richard Anthes, President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and Keynote speaker for our workshop.
		We thank you for visiting our workshop, and we would like to help answer any questions you may have about our work.
	www.pircs.iastate.edu /ees/ees/mayor.html (467 words)

	UNESCO Courier: Editorial by Federico Mayor - need to incorporate ethnic diversity in forming a universal society - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		UNESCO Courier: Editorial by Federico Mayor - need to incorporate ethnic diversity in forming a universal society - Minorities - Editorial
		Editorial by Federico Mayor - need to incorporate ethnic diversity in forming a universal society - Minorities - Editorial
		UNESCO Courier, June, 1993 by Federico Mayor Zaragoza
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1993_June/ai_14156364 (565 words)

	Waterway 8 - Address by Mr Federico Mayor,
		Address by Mr Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO at the Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP)
		It gives me great pleasure to address the IHP Intergovernmental Council not only as Director-General of UNESCO but also as a scientist who believes that you are dealing with one of the most important challenges that humanity is facing on the eve of a new century.
		And I thank you very much for your dedication to the cause of IHP and UNESCO, and I wish you every success in your debates and decisions.
	webworld.unesco.org /water/ihp/publications/waterway/wat8/Wat8_Add.html (2404 words)

	Amazon.com: The World Ahead : Our Future in the Making: Books: Federico Mayor,Jerome Binde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These questions and more are considered in this fascinating book.
		Federico Mayor is outgoing Director General of UNESCO.
		Jerome Binde is Director of UNESCO's Analysis and Forecasting Office.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1856498751?v=glance (682 words)

	UNESCO calls for building 400 schools in Iraq, after 400 missile strikes
		Director General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor, proposed Wednesday the construction of 400 schools in Iraq after the 400 missile strikes by the USA and Britain.
		Otherwise, we will produce evidence once again that we are a society ready for war but not for peace," Mayor told a Spanish local radio station.
		For the UNESCO chief, Iraq's failure to give the UN mission free access is no reason for expensive military operations.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/981224/1998122459.html (235 words)

	Newsletter 13.1 Spring 1998 (Conservation at the Getty)
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		In October 1997, Federico Mayor, director general of UNESCO, honored Miguel Angel Corzo, director of the Getty Conservation Institute, with a UNESCO Medal in recognition of Mr.
		Mayor, "and the success he has met in the diffusion, preservation, and conservation of the world's cultural heritage."
	getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/13_1/gcinews02.html (355 words)

	GLOSAS News, Vol. 7, No. 1 -- Greetings, Dr. Federico Mayor, GLH Costa Rica, 10/25/95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		7, No. 1 -- Greetings, Dr. Federico Mayor, GLH Costa Rica, 10/25/95
		Greetings from Dr. Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO
		Greetings to the participants in the 1995 "Global Lecture Hall"!
	www.friends-partners.org /utsumi/glosas-news/mayor62.htm (889 words)

	The wings of life
		Jane Lubchenco: Beware an ecological tsunami (Water) 1996
		Federico Mayor: Crucible for a common ethic (Culture, values and the environment) 1996
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	www.ourplanet.com /imgversn/95/mayor.html (1045 words)

	The U.N. Plan for Global Control
		To find more universal values, Habitat leaders convened a day-long "Dialogue" on the meaning of Solidarity at the elegant Ciragan Palace in Istanbul.
		The official list of 21 panel members included former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, and Maurice Strong6 who led the 1992 UN conference on environment.
		"Citizenship for the next century is learning to live together," said Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO.
	www.radioliberty.com /kjos1.htm (3293 words)

	INTERVIEW - Fedrico Mayor Zaragoza : ‘The World Needs a Great Crisis in Order to Change’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		INTERVIEW - Fedrico Mayor Zaragoza : ‘The World Needs a Great Crisis in Order to Change’
		Spain's Federico Mayor Zaragoza, president of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and former chief of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has come to Mumbai with strong criticism of the U.S. government and its hegemonic posturing behind the United Nations’ back.
		Why do you think reform is needed at the United Nations?
	www.ipsnews.net /focus/tv_mumbai/viewstory.asp?idn=242 (879 words)

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