Background
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the beginning of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations when he was attending the African Union Summit in Malabo, Guinea to commemorate the past developments including the UN task force achievements and the work for humanity. He has marked it with a name "UN70". He also focused on the unification of the international community in order to make the UN more powerful to better handle the problems of the world. It was also observed that on 26 June 1945, the UN Charter was initialised for ratification in San Francisco.
Contents
- Background
- Mogens Lykketoft replaces Sam Kutesa
- Events and planning
- Intercontinental Cycling Tour
- Trees Plantation Event
- Multilingual Essay Contest
- United Nations Exhibition
- Second World War 70th anniversary
- Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Adoption of draft on UN reforms
- Treaty Event
- References
Mogens Lykketoft replaces Sam Kutesa
The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously elected its new president to Mogens Lykketoft who is Denmark’s former parliament speaker for the 70th anniversary session. He took the office in September after replacing Sam Kutesa of Uganda, the former president of UN general assembly.
Events and planning
The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is given the planning of the celebration related events and special activities which are planned to be held for a period of 16 months. Some of them includes the celebrations of the International day of Peace on 21 September and others.
Intercontinental Cycling Tour
World Environment Day was celebrated in Istanbul on 14 June, though it comes on June 5, as "International Bicycle Tour" having more than 10000 participants who rode their bicycles together to mark the event.
Trees Plantation Event
Over 2000 Trees Planted on the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as an event to mark environment protection as the prime motto.
Multilingual Essay Contest
United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) invited names from university students across the world and almost 70 student got prizes for winning.
United Nations' Exhibition
On 29 June, an exhibition to mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, was organised by Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, United Nations Foundation and the Department of Public Information. The exhibition had on display the 33 original artworks of Norman Rockwell and other paintings. The name of the exhibition was "We the Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations".
Second World War 70th anniversary
Not only it is the UN's 70th anniversary but also of the end of the Second World War. On 6 May 2015, a concert was organised by the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to observe it.
Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament
The theme of the Conference of Speakers of all IPU(Inter-Parliamentary Union) member parliaments and of non-member parliaments from across the world, was on peace, democracy, and development.
Sustainable Development Goals
Pope Francis and heads of about 150 nations assembled at the United Nations and approved new set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were finalised after three years intense discussions. They emphasize more social development and environment protection. On September 25, 2015 a resolution named "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda" for sustainable Development was adopted which included new global goals with a motto of transforming the world in a better direction. Along with those seventeen goals it has 169 targets to fight inequality along with erasing poverty, and take on the climate change effects over the next fifteen years.
Adoption of draft on UN reforms
The UN adopted a landmark text-based negotiations for the pending bill on reforms of the Security Council. The efforts behind are attributed to all the countries and especially to UN General Assembly former President Sam Kutesa who supported the action on the draft decision and took the process one step forward.
Treaty Event
The UN treaty office organised a very crucial treaty event in New York City, which was a special event where Santiago Villalpando, the Chief of the UN Office of Legal Affairs Treaty Section, addressed all the signatories to sign on to or to ratify or accede to multilateral treaties, they had promised earlier. About 560 multilateral treaties were deposited with the UN Secretary-General.