UN CELEBRATES ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY
By Gohar Gevorgian

AZG Armenian Daily #163
13/09/2005

The representatives of 50 countries worked out the regulation of the
UN at the first Congress of the United Nations in San Francisco,
1945. It was signed on July 26, 1945 but they consider that the
organization officially started its activities on October 24 of the
same year. The organization celebrates its 60th anniversary this
year. A number of arrangements are envisaged to take place within
the framework of this celebration. The presentation of “We and Our
History” song opened the festive arrangements.

Consuelo Vidal, UN Resident Coordinator, represented the series of
arrangements and stated that the song performed by 26 Armenian singers
fully reflected the ideas and the values of the organization.

A big open-air concert will take place on September 17,
while on September 24 a big chess competition will be held in
Cascade. Well-known Armenian chess players as well as children
from 17 cities of our republic will participate in the open-air
competition. Smbat Lputian, outstanding Armenian chess player, believes
that the competition organized by the Armenian Chess Federation and
the Chess Academy will be a genuine chess feast. The arrangements also
include the competition of schoolchildren’s literary compositions on
the topic “The UN in the World and in My Life.” An exhibition of young
photographers will open on the very birthday of the organization,
on October 24. The concert of classical music at Aram Khachatrian
Concert Hall will complete the day.

Ms. Vidal said that the UN Summit dedicated to Millennium Development
Aims project will be held in New York soon. She said that the Armenian
delegation will also represent its report at the New York summit.

This year is important for the organization for another reason,
too. The fifth anniversary of the Millennium memorandum is celebrated
in 2005, as well. It’s worth reminding that the abovementioned
memorandum was signed in 2000 by 191 countries of the world that
committed to achieve the 8 aims of the millennium development until
2015. The millennium goals are as follows: struggle against diseases
and children’s death, assistance to the victims of natural disasters,
poverty overcoming, stability of environment and maintaining education,
as well as cooperation between the countries of the world.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress