Meanwhile, at 8:00 p.m., the Deputy Secretary of the Office of the President, Dr. Rodrigo Ferrés, will deliver a message on behalf of the Executive Branch via a nationwide radio and television broadcast.
On November 1, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly decided to designate January 27 as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On that date in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.