"DIWALI"

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

Yemeni honey is globally appreciated, the country’s tradition of beekeeping goes back centuries. Poems and songs have praised its many virtues, but local bees and beekeepers are threatened by increasing challenges due to the ongoing conflict. FAO

Diwali Stamp “The Power of One” Award Ceremony (A/RES/69/250) (co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Belarus, Georgia and India, and the Diwali Foundation USA, Inc., in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Greece, France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Oman, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam, the Permanent Observer of State of Palestine, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-New York)

A historic number of 24 nations, led by Belarus and India, as co-organizers, and USPS came together on December 5, 2016 at the U.N. to celebrate “The Diwali Forever Stamp,” issued in 2016 by the USPS, and to honour Ms. Ranju Batra, Chair of the Diwali Stamp Project, for her 7 years' successful journey. As a follow-up, Diwali Foundation USA, Inc was established in 2017 as an NGO to promote a peaceful and consensus based process to achieve societal good, as befits the high hopes and ideals of humanity enshrined in the U.N. Charter.