The United Nations Charter makes a rare appearance at the New York headquarters of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. (Photo by USUN)
For just a few minutes on Tuesday afternoon, the lobby of U.S. Mission headquarters was home to the original United Nations Charter. There, flanked by guards and inscribed with the names of the world’s most notable mid-century diplomats, sat the UN’s original founding document, an open book on the aspirations of the post-war generation.
Later, the Charter survived the trip across New York’s 1st Avenue for the swearing-in of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In welcoming the Secretary-General’s reappointment, Ambassador Susan Rice said that Ban has “understood that an institution built in the wake of World War II must renew and reform itself to meet the challenges of a very different world.”
Fonte: White House