Secretary-General Celebrates Completion of "Four Freedoms Park"
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second from left) listens to singer Judy Collins (right) at the inauguration of Four Freedoms Park, dedicated to United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in New York City. The park, designed by famed architect Louis Kahn and named for Roosevelt’s belief in the four essentials freedoms of speech, worship, from want and from fear, lies on Roosevelt Island in the East River, within sight of the UN Headquarters complex.
Pictured with Mr. Ban, from left: Joseph Torsella, U.S. Representative for Management and Reform to the UN; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of the late President; and William vanden Heuvel, Chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.