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J-Hope from
@BTS_twt
greets Deputy Secretary-General
@AminaJMohammed
.
#BTS
spoke and performed at
@UN
during the
#SDGMoment
earlier today.
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"Every choice we make is the beginning of change."
- BTS
@bts_bighit
, Special Presidential Envoy for Future Generations and Culture of the Republic of Korea, makes remarks and performs during the Sustainable Development Goals
#SDGMoment
@UN
.
#GlobalGoals
UN Photo/Cia Pak
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#SolarPanels
, a gift from
#India
, are installed on the roof of the
@UN
. The panels are powered up to reach the max of 50 KW of generation power.
#solarpower
,
#solarenergy
,
#ClimateAction
,
#ClimateActionNow
,
#ClimateSummit
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Our most popular tweet of the year was of solar panels, a gift from
#India
@IndiaUNNewYork
being installed on the roof of
@UN
headquarters in September. Visit to see more of the best photos of 2019.
#YearInReview
#photo
#solarpower
#ClimateAction
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Giselle of K-pop group
@aespa_official
delivers a message during the political forum on sustainable development, part of
@UNECOSOC
2022 session on theme "Building back better from
#COVID19
while advancing the
#2030Agenda
"
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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Layla Bukele, daughter of
@nayibbukele
, President of the Republic of
#ElSalvador
, listens to her father address the
@UN
General Assembly.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Cia Pak
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First lady and baby Layla of El Salvador at
#UNGA
as her papá
@nayibbukele
addresses the General Assembly.
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy
@ZelenskyyUa
, President of
#Ukraine
.
"This war must end, and peace must be established in line with the charter of the UN and international law," said the Secretary-General.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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@AdelaRaz
Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the UN in the General Assembly Hall with daughter today for the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
#WorldChildrensDay
,
#CRC30
,
#ForEveryChild
@UNICEF
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
wishes happy birthday to
@captaintommoore
on his
#100thbirthday
!
#HappyBirthdayCaptainTom
,
#CaptainTom100
,
@UN
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Joining Deputy Secretary-General
@AminaJMohammed
onstage today for the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy:
@Trevornoah
, host of
@TheDailyShow
,
@Pharrell
&
@Forbes
Chief Content Officer
@RandallLane
.
#VisitUN
@VisitUn
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.
@UN
observes
#MandelaDay
and awards
#MandelaPrize
to Marianna Vardinoyannis, fighting to end childhood cancer & Morissanda Kouyaté, working to
#endviolence
against women & girls
Prince Harry and Meghan, Maria Theofili,
@AminaJMohammed
,
@UN_PGA
,
@NYCMayor
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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A
#greenroof
is placed next to the new
#solarpanels
, a gift from
#India
, on the roof of the
@UN
.
#ClimateAction
,
#ClimateActionNow
,
#ClimateSummit
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Happy Birthday to Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
!
Here he is at the 2019
@UNCANews
annual awards dinner. Behind him is
@AshleyJudd
,
@unfpa
Goodwill Ambassador.
See more photos of the work of the
@UN
Secretary-General:
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A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Volodymyr Zelenskyy
@ZelenskyyUa
, President of Ukraine, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in
#Ukraine
.
#UNSC
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
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National Ambassador for
@UNICEFUSA
@SofiaCarson
speaks at a reception held to mark the 75th Anniversary of
@UNICEF
and to bid farewell to outgoing
@unicefchief
Henrietta H. Fore.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
meets with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
@DrSJaishankar
, Minister for External Affairs of the Republic of
#India
.
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Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of
@irishmissionun
, attends her last Security Council meeting as PR of Ireland to the UN.
The
#UNSC
met on maintenance of peace and security of
#Ukraine
.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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Prime Minister of Barbados
@miaamormottley
, Prime Minister of New Zealand
@jacindaardern
, Prime Minister of Samoa Fiame Naomi Mataafa, and Foreign Minister of Australia
@SenatorWong
address the 77th debate of UN General Assembly.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Cia Pak/Laura Jarriel
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Secretary-General António Guterres met this afternoon with former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in New York.
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The
@UN
Headquarters in
#NYC
went dark last night as part of
@earthhour
Together we can all take
#ClimateAction
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Malala Yousafzai (on screen), Co-founder and Board Chair of the Malala Fund, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in
#Afghanistan
.
#UNSC
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Portrait of
@abdulla_shahid
, President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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#OnThisDay
in 1947 the
@UN
flag was raised for the first time, after having been adopted by the
#UNGA
. Lake Success, NY. 21 October 1947.
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Mr.
@antonioguterres
is today appointed
@UN
Secretary-General for a second term of office starting 1 January 2022 and ending 31 December 2026. Here Mr. Guterres takes the oath of office administered by
@UN_PGA
Volkan Bozkir.
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
speaks with Deputy Secretary-General
@AminaJMohammed
in his office ahead of holding a virtual press conference at the
@UN
Headquarters.
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"The nightmare in
#Gaza
is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity," said
@antonioguterres
to reporters, and continued: "Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. [...] The way forward is clear. A humanitarian ceasefire. Now."
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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A packed house for today's Security Council meeting on women, peace & security. "The evidence linking gender equality and peace is convincing and well known." -
@UN
Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
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Permanent Representative of
#Ukraine
to the UN
@UKRinUN
,
@SergiyKyslytsya
, stands in the Security Council Chamber prior to the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.
#UNSC
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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On World Water Day, during the Dutch Presidency of the UN Security Council,
the virtual flood of "Waterlight" by Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde shows how high the water could reach if we don’t take action. Climate variability is increasingly linked to the root causes of conflict.
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
meets with
@abdulla_shahid
, President-elect of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
meets with Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
@Refugees
,
#UNHCR
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
presents Angelina Jolie, UNHCR Special Envoy, with the 2017
@UN
Correspondents Association Global Citizen of the Year award at the UNCA Annual Awards Dinner and Dance.
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Archives from
@UN
photo of the Commission on the Status of Women in 1948, 1967, 1974, 2013 &
#CSW60
#Planet5050
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
and
@UN_PGA
@volkan_bozkir
speaks ahead of the start of the General Assembly meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
#UN75
,
#UNGA
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#HolocaustMemorialDay
ceremony took place
@UN
headquarters in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
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Busy time before
#ParisAgreement
event:
@UN
Secretary-General &
@LeoDiCaprio
, re-reading speech, &
@twitter
mirror
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#PhotoOfTheDay
: Mongolian
#peacekeepers
keep watch at gate of UNMISS protection site in Bentiu South Sudan, housing 120k displaced civilians
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#OnThisDay
in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Here Dr. King and his wife Coretta Scott King are greeted by Mr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs, during a visit to the
@UN
in 1964.
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A
#greenroof
has been installed next to the
#solarpanels
, both gifts from
#India
, on the roof of the
@UN
.
#solarpower
,
#solarenergy
,
#ClimateAction
,
#ClimateActionNow
,
#ClimateSummit
,
#ActNow
,
@IndiaUNNewYork
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Volkan Bozkir,
@UN_PGA
, greets
@abdulla_shahid
, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives and President-elect of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly. At centre left is Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
.
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Sapling from a Ginko tree that survived the A-bomb in
#Hiroshima
& to be planted in the fall
@UNGeneva
by
#UNSG
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Children flood
@UN
GA Hall before beginning of signing of
#ParisAgreement
w/ first signatory Pdt Hollande
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#Onthisday
in 1945 delegates from 50 Nations met at the
#SanFranciscoConference
. The outcome was an agreement on the
#UNCharter
and the Statute of the
@CIJ_ICJ
.
Stage setting in the interior of the War Memorial Opera House in
#SanFrancisco
.
#UNArchives
,
#UN75
,
@UN
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Behind the scenes:Chat between
#UNSG
, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, & Bono at the Private Sector Forum lunch
http://t.co/xpfDxj9W4z
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Today is International Day of the World's
#IndigenousPeoples
.
As we fight against the spread of the
#COVID19
pandemic, it is important to safeguard indigenous peoples and their knowledge.
Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
is greeted Maori style in New Zealand (2019).
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A staff member of the UN Facilities and Management Service adjusts the clock in the Security Council chamber as daylight saving time ended on Sunday 3 November.
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
and Deputy Secretary-General
@AminaJMohammed
meet with Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals.
@GlobalGoalsUN
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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.
@JimKim_WBG
&
@UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Zaatari Refugee Camp
#Jordan
#ShareHumanity
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The Preamble to the
#UNCharter
, signed
#onthisday
in 1945, expresses the ideals and the common aims of all the peoples whose governments joined together to form the
@UN
.
#UN75
,
#UNCharterDay
More photos:
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Caroline Criado Perez, author of "Invisible Women" signs her book at the
#UNBookshop
. Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population.
#GenderEquality
,
#SDG5
,
@CCriadoPerez
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A lemur, a small primate endemic to
#Madagascar
, at a reserve
@UN
Secretary-General toured recently
#BiodiversityDay
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1948: Press conf. w/ Eleanor Roosevelt after completion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
#HumanRightsDay
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#TBT
: Some past ceremonies when
#UNGA
appointed a
@UN
Sec-General 1981-Perez de Cuellar 1991-Boutros-Ghali 1996-
@KofiAnnan
2011-Ban Ki-moon
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
and
@AdelaRaz
,
Permanent Representative of
@AfghanMissionUN
, unveils a gift to the
@UN
from the Government of Afghanistan at
#UNHQ
today. The artwork titled “the Unseen Afghanistan” is made by
#ArtLords
.
@OmaidSharifi
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Deputy Secretary-General
@AminaJMohammed
on her way to her next appointment
@UN
headquarters.
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“I am deeply saddened by this humanitarian tragedy" Ban Ki-moon greets Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf
#ShareHumanity
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
meets with
@UN_PGA
for 76th
#UNGA
,
@abdulla_shahid
.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
10
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132
Captain Atupele Mbewe from Malawi, Major Bindeshwari from India, and Captain
Ritu Pandey from Nepal - peacekeepers serving with UNMISS - pose for a photo at the UN Camp in Juba.
@unmissmedia
UN Photo/Gregorio Cunha
More UN Photos of the year:
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Behind-the-scenes: how to light the
#OlympicTorch
?
@UN
Secretary-General practices w/ a pint-sized expert
#Rio2016
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.
@HillaryClinton
addresses the Memorial in remembrance of former United States Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, hosted by
@USAmbUN
.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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A view of the new
#EduardoKobra
mural in progress at
@UN
Headquarters, a donation from Brazil.
The theme is Sustainable Development and meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations.
#SDGs
@kobrastreetart
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
shares a laugh with
@UN_PGA
@volkan_bozkir
ahead of the General Assembly meeting to promote total elimination of nuclear weapons in October 2020.
@UN_Photo
wishes everyone happy holidays!
See more photos from 2020:
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Support for gender equality by
#UNSG
& President of China at
@UN_Women
event
#Planet5050
#globalgoals
http://t.co/m7FPnzFUq4
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Happy
#WorldOceansDay
with photos of fishing off Atauro Island
#TimorLeste
& aerial view near Kismayo
#Somalia
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"Imagine if the world was ruled by women, and you as a man were deprived of your basic human rights – can you put yourself in the Afghan woman’s shoes and feel her pain?" -
@Fawziakoofi77
, former Deputy Speaker of Afghan Parliament.
#UNSC
,
#Afghanistan
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
signs the Preamble of the
#UNCharter
to commemorate the 75th anniversary of
@UN
(24 October).
@UN_PGA
@volkan_bozkir
invited all Member States to sign it as a symbolic gesture of recommitment to its principles.
#UN75
#UN75thAnniversary
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#Onthisday
in 1945 delegates from 50 Nations met at the
#SanFranciscoConference
that would last until June 26, 1945. The outcome was an agreement on the
#UNCharter
and the Statute of the
@CIJ_ICJ
.
Delegations arrive in
#SanFrancisco
.
#UNArchives
,
#UN75
,
@UN
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A huge THANK YOU from everyone United Nations Photo for helping us to reach 70,000 followers!
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Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
attends the unveiling of the installation ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at UN Headquarters to call attention to the need for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools. More than 168 million children have had their schools closed during
#COVID19
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Closing ceremony of the
#GlobalGoals
Summit
#UNGA
more photos:
http://t.co/H8h6hTArpX
http://t.co/p8wrGbweUd
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Views from the General Assembly meeting on the 25th anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women.
@UN_PGA
@volkan_bozkir
speaks with
@antonioguterres
;
Natalia Kanem
@Atayeshe
of
@UNFPA
, Dubravka Šimonovic of
@UN_HRC
and
@NomzamoMbatha
addresses the meeting.
#Beijing25
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