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Remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Public Lecture by Stephen Schlesinger, author of Act of Creation – the Founding of the United Nations, 11 October 2006 -  Watch the video of the conference [66 minutes]
In celebration of the United Nations sixtieth anniversary, the United Nations Department of Public Information organized a commemoration of the signing of the United Nations Charter, which took place in San Francisco on 26 June 1945.
The event started at 9:30 a.m. in the General Assembly Hall on Monday 27 June 2005.
The President of the General Assembly and the Secretary General spoke. Three United Nations tour guides read the Preamble of the Charter and the United Nations Singers performed.
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FORTY-FIVE NATIONS, including the four sponsors, were originally invited to the San Francisco Conference: nations which had declared war on Germany and Japan and had subscribed to the United Nations Declaration. One of these, Poland, did not attend because the composition of her new government was not announced until too late for the conference. Therefore, a space was left for the signature of Poland, one of the original signatories of the United Nations Declaration. At the time of the conference there was no generally recognized Polish Government, but on June 28 such a government was announced and on October 15, 1945 Poland signed the Charter, thus becoming one of the original Members.
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