UN Affairs

Jean Gazarian at the commemoration of UNITAR’s 50th anniversary.
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

FEATURE: Remembering Jean Gazarian, a witness to UN history

28 January 2016
Global

The United Nations mourns the loss of Jean Gazarian, a staff member whose six-decade career offered him a rare opportunity to witness the various moments and milestones along the path that saw a nascent 51-member Organization develop into the 193-strong world body it is today.

A view of the delegations gathered for the first session of the UN General Assembly when it opened on 10 January 1946 at Central Hall in London, United Kingdom.
UN Photo/Marcel Bolomey

FEATURE: From misplaced emblem in London to iconic hall – the UN General Assembly across 70 years

11 January 2016

Before there was a United Nations Secretary-General, a Security Council or an iconic Headquarters in New York, there was the General Assembly, the most representative body ever of world nations, meeting for the first time in a London hall facing Westminster Abbey, the 1,000-year-old coronation site of Britain’s kings and queens.