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The 15th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), which kicked off Monday in the capital of Peru, has adopted a new Lima Declaration that charts the Organization's development priorities for the coming years and places special emphasis on inclusive and sustainable industrial development.
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 President Ollanta Humala has reaffirmed his government's commitment to become Peru an industrialized nation through putting the focus on production-oriented industrial revolution that will create a strong manufacturing base.
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 Peru's Foreign Trade Vice Minister, Edgar V�squez, will join government's top officials from countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations at a ministerial meeting, to be held in Singapore, on December 7-10, 2013. The High-Level gathering is aimed at exchanging views and providing further guidance to negotiators.
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Julie Fisher talks to Mariana Resources chief executive Glen Parsons about the company's strategy shift away from Argentina to focus on new joint ventures in Peru.
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Peru has exported 3,220 tonnes of fresh mangoes in the first week of the export season, having sent 90% of shipments to Europe and 10% to Chile and Ecuador, the Peruvian Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM) has reported.
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Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Ly Yong, has praised the Peruvian government for keeping the Andean country on the successful path of economic diversification and industrial transformation.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang extended warm congratulations to the 15th Session of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) General Conference, which opened in Peru's capital of Lima on Monday.
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A high-ranking Fijian official has urged the international community to reinforce commitment to poverty eradication at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) General Conference in Peru in Fiji's capacity as the chair of the Group of 77 plus China, Fiji's Ministry of Information said Tuesday.
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Last summer, 35 small, human-shaped sarcophagi were spotted with a powerful zoom lens camera in the Amazonas region of northern Peru. Now archaeologists have climbed the steep cliff where to the cemetery and confirmed the find. They think the small size of the sarcophagi, which face the remains of a town, indicates that they were used to hold the remains of mummified children.
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 Peru is undergoing its biggest effort to date in exhuming the victims of its bloody civil war, which took place from 1980 until 2000. An estimated 70,000 died in the conflicts as local Maoist rebels called the Shining Path, fought against soldiers and paramilitary allies in the hills of the Andes.
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 The regional government of Ayacucho has declared an area known as La Hoyada as a conservation zone, in memory of more than 100 people who were tortured and killed there during the internal conflict between the Peruvian state and leftist Shining Path rebels.
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 PromPeru, the trade, tourism and investment office of Peru in the United Arab Emirates, is pleased to announce that Peru won the title of World's Leading Culinary Destination at the World Travel Awards 2013.
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 Manchester-based supplier Viva Peru is bringing 'the rich and complex flavours' of Peruvian cuisine to the UK market with the launch of what it claims is the country's first online Peruvian food store.
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-b3f9c4f0-a2f7-415c-9e9f-47318c305c18-0-455x388.jpg) South America expert Emily Stephenson picks five of her favourite adventure experiences in exhilarating Peru.
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 Peru's Ministry of Culture has officially declared the Carnival of Lircay to be part of the country's national cultural heritage. The Carnival of Lircay is an expression of cultural identity from the Andean central Huancavelica region which takes place takes place annually on the first week of February in the district of the same name.
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 Walter Alb�n looks to restore the reputation of Peruvian law enforcement and eliminate corruption. Alb�n, who was appointed to the post after his predecessor Wilfredo Pedraza resigned amid a police scandal involving former Montesinos operative �scar L�pez Meneses, says he wants to make some big changes in Peruvian law enforcement.
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 Jailed former Peru President Alberto Fujimori has been admitted to a hospital for tests after a recurrence of cancer, his attorney said Monday. "The ex-president has been transferred (from his cell to Lima's top cancer hospital, INEN,) for evaluation, and probably will require surgery," William Castillo told reporters. Fujimori is serving a 25-year sentence after being convicted in 2009 of human rights violations during his 1990-2000 tenure.
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