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Closing ceremony of the UN Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization Conference, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.

Refugees in Idomeni, Greece, on 8 March 2016

(from left) Sundus Abbas; Sam Andrews and Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana

Brando Benifei

The Commission's proposal for a standard EU travel document, to speed up the process of returning non-EU nationals who stay "irregularly" in EU member states without valid passports or identity cards, was endorsed by Civil Liberties Committee MEPs on Monday. Members highlight that many EU countries are currently facing serious difficulties in returning these residents to their home countries in a safe and lawful way.

(Left to right)Rula Ghani, first lady of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan, Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General and Eklil Ahmad Hakimi, Minister of Finance.

Youth attending the sixty-sixth UN DPI/NGO Conference in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, flank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a social media moment at a youth caucus event.

Concluding a two-day visit to Azerbaijan on 28 May, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on the South Caucasus Kristian Vigenin (MP, Bulgaria) reiterated the need for increased parliamentary communication in favour of efforts for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.