{"id":58009,"date":"2015-11-20T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/media-advisory-on-papal-visit-to-unhq\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:53:11","slug":"media-advisory-on-papal-visit-to-unhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/media-advisory-on-papal-visit-to-unhq\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory on Papal Visit to UNHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK, United States of America, November 20, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — <\/span><\/p>\n

The United Nations Information Center
Invites Nairobi-based Journalists
To the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis to the UN Office at Nairobi
Venue: UN headquarters (UNON ) \u2013 Gigiri
Date: Thursday, 26 November 2015<\/p>\n

Time :1715 hrs (media entry cutoff 1500 hrs)<\/p>\n

His Holiness Pope Francis will visit, on Thursday, 26 November 2015, the Headquarters of the United Nations in the Global South as part of his first apostolic trip to Africa. The Holy Father plans to travel to Uganda and the Central African Republic later in the week, but his first stop will be Kenya.<\/p>\n

On arrival, His Holiness will be met by the Director-General of UNON, Sahle-Work Zewde, who will then introduce him to the UN leadership in Nairobi and escort him to sign the Visitors Book.<\/p>\n

His Holiness will then plant a tree next to the UNEP headquarters building.<\/p>\n

Next, he will then be escorted into the UNEP HQ where the Executive Director, Achim Steiner, will provide him with a briefing on UNEP and also update him on the latest climate change challenges.<\/p>\n

The Pope will then proceed to Conference Room 2 where he will deliver his address.<\/p>\n

Information and Requirements for entry of media into UNON \u2013 Gigiri<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Media representatives to provide the names and scanned copies IDs by Tuesday 24 Nov. This is to be emailed to : Janice.Nduati@unon.org Note that current UN accreditation cards will not be sufficient for access to this event.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0UN HQ Gates will be closed \u2013 with no exception – at 1500 hrs.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0All media representatives will be processed at the Main UN Visitors Entrance. Following the signing of the code of conduct, media will then escorted to the UN Press Centre<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Press briefing at 15.30hrs on the choreography of the imminent event<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0From the Press Centre media representatives will then be escorted to the appropriate media zones (4): Arrival Signing; Tree Planting; UNEP HQ; Conference Room 2.<\/p>\n

*** We plan to provide Live Feed of the proceedings<\/p>\n

Further details and plans important to the media should emerge in the next few days \u2013 and we shall share it with you through another Media Advisory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK, United States of America, November 20, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — The United Nations Information CenterInvites Nairobi-based JournalistsTo the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis to the UN Office at NairobiVenue: UN headquarters (UNON ) \u2013 GigiriDate: Thursday, 26 November 2015 Time :1715 hrs (media entry cutoff 1500 hrs) His Holiness Pope Francis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-58009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}