International Delegate's Day

Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations - Item 112: note by the Secretary-General (A/80/300) Taking note of the note by the Secretary-General Report of the Security Council - Item 27: report (A/80/2) Debate on the item Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS Item 10: draft decision (A/80/L.74) and draft amendment (A/80/L.75) Action on the draft amendment and the draft decision Watch General Assembly: 89th plenary meeting, 80th session! 02:50:09 General Assembly

   Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit - Item 115(i): Note by the President of the General Assembly A/80/471 Appointment of members of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence - Item 115(m): Note by the Secretary-General A/80/619 The General Assembly will also take note of the letter from the Secretary- General (A/80/474/Add.1) concerning Member States in arrears in the payment of financial contributions to the United Nations within the terms of Article 19 of the Charter . Related Sites and Documents:  A/80/471 .  A/80/619 ;  A/80/474/Add.1 . General Assembly: 72nd plenary meeting, 80th session General Assembly

The United Nations was born in a world on fire and desperate for reprieve . 750 million – nearly a third of humanity back then– still under colonial rule. Two World Wars in a generation. 70 million dead. The horrors of the Holocaust revealed to our collective shame. This was a generation that knew almost nothing but suffering and despair. But the signing of the Charter in San Francisco and the first meeting of the 51 states in the Methodist Central Hall in London guided our path from the ashes of war with a compass pointing toward peace, humanity, and justice. We have not always succeeded. But the story of this institution is not a story of easy victories. It is the story of pulling ourselves and each other back up and trying harder. Just as our predecessors did eight decades ago, our job is to find the resolve not to give up. The resolve to be Better Together.

The observance of the International Delegate’s Day marks the anniversary of the first day of the San Francisco Conference , also known as the United Nations Conference on International Organization. On 25 April 1945, delegates from fifty countries came together for the first time in San Francisco . Coming together after the devastation of the second world war, their aim was to set up an organization that would restore world peace and impose rules on the post-war world order. 850 delegates took part in this conference, which lasted for two months. They represented over eighty per cent of the world's population, people of every world religion and continent; all determined to set up an organization, which would preserve peace and help build a better world . Two months after the first meeting, on 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed by representatives of the 50 countries that attended the conference. The agreement resulted in the creation of the United Nations...