Putin Plans to Attend UN General Assembly For First Time in 10 Years

Putin Plans to Attend UN General Assembly For First Time in 10 Years

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-plans-to-attend-un-general-assembly-for-first-time-in-10-years/529031.html

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the United Nations 70th General Assembly in New York city in September, according to an order outlining the members of the Russian delegation. The document was signed by Putin and published on the government's legal information portal Friday.

The visit to New York will be Putin's first in the last 10 years. He will be joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the General Assembly, who will take over as head of the Russian delegation after Putin returns to Moscow.

The Russian delegation will include Aexei Pushkov, head of the State Duma's Foreign Affairs committee, and Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.

Putin last attended the UN General Assembly in 2005. Before that, he attended in 2003 and 2000, the Interfax news agency reported Friday. In 2009, then-President Dmitry Medvedev spoke before the General Assembly. Lavrov has lead the Russian delegation every other time.

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History of the United Nations

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San Francisco Conference

On 25 April 1945, delegates of 50 nations met in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The delegates drew up the 111-article Charter, which was adopted unanimously on 25 June 1945 in the San Francisco Opera House. The next day, they signed it in the Herbst Theatre auditorium of the Veterans War Memorial Building.

24 October 1945

The United Nations is created as its Charter is ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council and the majority of other signatories, and comes into force.

The first General Assembly, with 51 nations represented opens in Central Hall, Westminster, London.

Trygve Lie of Norway becomes first Secretary-General.

Trygve Halvdan Lie

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24 October 1947

"United Nations Day" officially designated by the General Assembly.

10 December 1948

Eleanor Roosevelt holds a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

7 April 1953 Dag Hammarskjöld         

The General Assembly nominates Dag Hammarskjöld as Secretary General of the United Nations

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U Thant

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U Thant , who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, was chosen to head the world body when Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September 1961.

Kurt Waldheim

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Javier Perez de Cuellar

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Kofi Annan

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Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations

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