Countries from around the world broadcast Barenboim concert
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Attendees included Ban Ki-moon (secretary general of the United Nations), Durão Barroso (former Portuguese prime minister and former president of the European Commission), José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (former president of the Spanish government), Sandrine Salerno (honourary mayoress of Geneva), Michael Møller (director general of the United Nations Office in Geneva), Joachim Rücker (chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Council), Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser (United Nations high commissioner for the Alliance among Civilisations) and Miguel Ángel Moratinos (chairman of the ONUART Foundation).
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The concert was broadcast in countries around the world including: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Slovakia, Spain, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Australia, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mexico and South Africa, among others.
The concert is set to become annual event as Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra have committed to performing at the Concert Peace and Human Rights at the Palace of Nations for the next four years, an event that will feature performances from a world renowned tenor and soprano.