Showing posts with label United Nations charter. Show all posts
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27 June 2015

United Nations charter, signed in San Francisco, turns 70

In this May 8, 1945, file photo, members of the executive committee of the United Nations conference meet in the Opera House in San Francisco to consider conference procedure. Seventy years ago leaders of 50 war-weary countries gathered in San Francisco to create an international order that would save future generations “from the scourge of war.” With that, the United Nations was created.
Hundreds of people packed the rotunda of San Francisco City Hall to mark the 70th birthday of the signing of the United Nations charter.
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