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Secretary-General Meets Foreign Trade Minister of Cuba

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:48:05 GMT

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba.

Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:48:05 GMT

Norris E. Dodd, Director-General of FAO, talking to farmer at Brookville, Maryland in the United States.

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United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) Meets at Stockholm

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:48:05 GMT

In response to rising world concern about the conditions of man’s habitat, representatives of some 130 nations converged on Stockholm, Sweden, this month in an unprecedented meeting to seek ways to translate that concern into a global attack on the common perils menacing the environment. The two-week UN Conference on the Human Environment (5-6 June) has been called by the General Assembly with the aim of producing an international political consensus on ways of preserving and improving the environment for this and future generations. About 1,200 delegates, many of them high-level decision-makers in government, are in Stockholm for the session, which is the first world-wild UN gathering to take a comprehensive look at man’s surroundings.

A view of the New Parliament Building in Stockholm where some of the Conference meetings are being held.

Recycling Centre in Danbury, Connecticut

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:48:05 GMT

Glass is sorted by colour at a recycling centre in Danbury, Connecticut.1991.

Minister of Justice for Republic of Congo Holds Press Conference

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:48:05 GMT

Press Conference of Mr. Pierre Nze, Minister of Justice, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville).

Permanent Representative of India Presents Credentials

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:48:05 GMT

Natarajan Krishnan (left), India's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations, presenting his credentials this afternoon to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

Bronze Bust of Pablo Casals on Display

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:48:05 GMT

A bronze portrait bust honoring the late Pablo Casals, musician and world citizen, was dedicated by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at a ceremony held in the Visitors' Lobby of the General Assembly building today. Pablo Casals performed in the General Assembly hall in 1958, on the occasion of the thirteenth anniversary of the UN and again in 1963, conducting his own "El Pessebre", and 1971. The bust is on permanent loan to the UN from the UN International School (UNIS). The portrait bust, done from life when the Maestro was at the UN in 1971, is the work of Robert Berks, sculptor of the Kennedy Monument in the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and busts of Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Pope Paul VI and Martin Luther King among others. It was given by Robert Howard, President of Centronics Data Computer Corporation, whose many other gifts to UNIS have included the International Courtyard Garden in the School's building at East 25th Street in Manhattan and the equipment for a mathematics laboratory, including a sophisticated educational computer installation.

A view of the portrait bust of Pablo Casals.

Permanent Representative of India Presents Credentials

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:48:05 GMT

Brajesh Chandra Mishra (left), the new Permanent Representative of India to the UN, presenting his credentials to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at UN Headquarters today.

Leader of Palestine Liberation Organization Arrives at United Nations Headquarters

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:48:05 GMT

The Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, arrived at United Nations Headquarters early this morning by a helicopter.

A view of the helicopter as it approached the North garden of UN Headquarters for a landing.

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) Meets at Stockholm

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:48:05 GMT

In response to rising world concern about the conditions of man’s habitat, representatives of some 130 nations converged on Stockholm, Sweden, this month in an unprecedented meeting to seek ways to translate that concern into a global attack on the common perils menacing the environment. The two-week UN Conference on the Human Environment (5-6 June) has been called by the General Assembly with the aim of producing an international political consensus on ways of preserving and improving the environment for this and future generations. About 1,200 delegates, many of them high-level decision-makers in government, are in Stockholm for the session, which is the first world-wild UN gathering to take a comprehensive look at man’s surroundings.

A view of the new Parliament Building in Stockholm where some of the Conference meetings are being held.