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Twenty-fifth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), was held in Nairobi, 5-12 May 2009 The Ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names was held at United Nations headquarters in New York, from 21 to 30 August 2007. The Twenty-fourth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names was held on 20 August and 31 August 2007 in New York, one day prior and one day after the Ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. The Ninth Conference was attended by over 300 participants from over 90 countries.	Events in 2009 & 2010 (click here for Events page) April 28-30, 2010, WG on Exonyms, Dutch- and German-speaking Division Tainach, Austria Contact: Peter Jordan (Peter.Jordan@oeaw.ac.at) June 21-23, 2010, WG on Evaluation and Implementation WG on Publicity and Funding, Vancouver, Canada Contacts: Ki-Suk Lee (leekisuk@snu.ac.kr) Sungjae Choo (sjchoo@khu.ac.kr) David Munro (davidmunro@kinaskit.co.uk) April 28-30, 2010, WG on Exonyms, Dutch- and German-speaking Division Tainach, Austria Contact: Peter Jordan (Peter.Jordan@oeaw.ac.at) UNGEGN Information Bulletins

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