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Flag of the United Nations The United Nations Office at Geneva, a large neoclassical building with the words United Nations Nations Unies above the entrance, is flanked by rows of international flags. United Nations General Assembly United Nations headquarters in Midtown Manhattan United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a suit and tie, posing in front of a blue United Nations flag at UN Headquarters in New York City. Trygve Lie Dag Hammarskjold in 1954, seated and wearing a light-colored suit and striped tie, with hands clasped in front of him and looking to the left. U Thant, 1965 Kurt Waldheim Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
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Flag of the United Nations
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The United Nations Office in Geneva
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United Nations General Assembly
First session of the United Nations General Assembly, January 10, 1946, at the Central...
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United Nations headquarters in Midtown Manhattan
The United Nations headquarters in New York City symbolizes the post-World War II...
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Antonio Guterres
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 2017.
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Trygve Lie
Norweigan politician Trygve Lie.
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Dag Hammarskjöld, 1954.
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U Thant, 1965
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Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Waldheim, 1971.
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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1996.
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, 1996.
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Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-Moon, 2008.
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Guterres, António
António Guterres, 2016.
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Korean War
Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war at a United Nations Command prison camp...
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UN convoy at the “United Nations House” in Kaesŏng, Korea, during early Korean War...
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UN partition plan for Israel and Palestine in 1947
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