UN Pictorial History


1960 FLAGS OF NEW MEMBERS STATES

43 Flagraising of 16 new Member States at UN Headquarters.
New York, 30/9/60
67728 UN/DPI/M. Bordy



1960 FIFTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

44 USSR Premier Khrushchev, Yugoslav Pres. Tito in GA.
New York, 26/9/60
67111 UN/DPI/Y. Nagata



1960 UN OPERATION IN THE CONGO (ONUC)

45 SG Hammarskjold in the Congo.
Katanga, 14/8/60
66644 UN/DPI



46 Volunteers, supplied by ONUC, UNICEF, FAO, build road.
Leopoldville, 17/4/62
74797 UN/DPI/B. Zarov



1961 DEATH OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

47 Chagall window, gift of artist, UN staff in Hammarskjold's memory.
NY, 9/85
167108 c UN/DPI/L. Connor



1962 U THANT - THIRD SECRETARY-GENERAL

48 SG U Thant, Burma, elected 30 Nov. 1962.
New York, 9/65
92603 c UN/DPI/Y. Nagata



1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

49 Security Council debates Cuban missile crisis.
New York, 25/10/62
77304 UN/DPI



1962 UN FORCE IN CYPRUS (UNFICYP)

50 UK peacekeeper escorts Greek woman to Greek sector.
Nicosia, 27/4/64
84995 UN/DPI/B. Zarov



1967 MIDDLE EAST - SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242

51 SC affirms establishment of peace in Mideast.
New York, 22/11/67
101873 UN/DPI/Y. Nagata



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