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The September 21 is the International Day of peace, people around the world expressed the yearning for peace. This year China first participated in the International Peace Day, with hundreds of Chinese netizens expressing international peace aspirations through messages and online video.

19th--U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rings peace Bell at U.N. headquarters in New York. United Nations offices around the world and peacekeeping operations will observe a minute of silence 12 o'clock local time on September 21 at noon.

In the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, more than 10,000 vaccination officers are vaccinating children with polio, a way that the Afghan people celebrate the International Day of Peace. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok, Thailand, organized a youth forum on the theme "Peace and human rights". In the Armenian capital of Yerevan, the United Nations and its partners held a chess competition on the theme of Sport for peace.

This is also the first time China has formally participated in the International Peace Day. Two peace-loving students have designed and developed a website for the collection of information on peace, under the guidance of United Nations staff (http://peace.un.org.cn). "How do you think you can make this world more peaceful?" What do you want to do for peace? "Up to now, a total of more than 300 netizens in the above on two issues to express their views." Some of the outstanding messages have been sent to United Nations Headquarters and presented to world leaders at the 63rd session of the General Assembly on 23rd. In addition, users also participate in the activities of the video site upload homemade and posted video, the expression of the end of war, against terrorist forces, praying for world peace and other aspirations.

In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Peace and in 2001 decided to fix it on September 21 of each year. The day is the "Global Day of Ceasefire and Non-violence", and the United Nations hopes to establish a global ceasefire through educational campaigns.