Annalena Baerbock (right), President of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, rings the Peace Bell during the ceremony held at UN headquarters in observance of the International Day of Peace 2025 (21 September). The theme of the International Day of Peace 2025 is "Act Now for a Peaceful World".A security officer at the Public Entrance of the General Assembly building assisting visitors to the UN. [June 1969]Miss Angie E. Brooks (Liberia), President of the Twenty-Fourth session of the General Assembly, is seen as she participated in a three-way International radio hook-up between New York, Paris and London. With her is Mr. J. Nichols, Chief, International and Satellite Communications Unit, UN Radio and Visual Services Division.Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, attends the 10000th meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The Council voted on a draft resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate release of all hostages, it further demanded the lifting of Israeli restrictions on aid, calling on the occupying power to ensure safe and unhindered distribution to all in need. The draft resolution received 14 votes in favour and 1 against (United States). The resolution was not adopted due to the veto by the United States.Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani (centre), Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, arrives to attend the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Behind him at right is Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations.The General Assembly, opening its twenty-sixth regular session this afternoon, elected Adam Malik, Foreign Minister of Indonesia, as its President, and admitted three new Member States: Bhutan, Bahrain and Qatar. The United Nations, with their admission, now has 130 Member States. A general view of the Assembly as it stood for a minute of silence dedicated to prayer or meditation. This photograph was taken with a ""Fish-eye"" lens.Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed serves food at the Dejazmach Wondirad School in Addis Ababa. The Deputy Secretary-General visited the school along with other key food systems sites in Addis Ababa ahead of attending the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4). The 2nd UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) takes place from July 27–29, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is co-hosted by Ethiopia and Italy.A view of the United Nations Headquarters as seen from Long Island City.Annalena Baerbock, President of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, briefs reporters ahead of the start of the Debate during the eightieth session of the UN General Assembly.UN Security Officer Fatuma Juma performs honor guard duties at the wreath-laying ceremony held to commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the bombing of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad.Annalena Baerbock, President of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, briefs reporters after having taken the oath of office during the closing meeting of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly.Secretary-General António Guterres (right) arrives to brief reporters on the start of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. At left is Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. "UN week offers every possibility for dialogue and mediation. Every opportunity for forging solutions. Thousands of leaders’ meetings will take place. I will hold over 150 bilateral meetings myself. I will use every one of them to press leaders to contact each other, to speak directly with each other. To bridge divides. To reduce risks. To find solutions. To get serious," said the Secretary-General.Members of the United States Delegation arrive at the Palais de Chaillot to attend the Second Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (right) walks with Ernest Gross (left) and Phillip C. Jessup.Two special emergency sessions of the General Assembly have been called by the Security Council since 31 October, following the grave events of the last two weeks, both in the Middle East and in Hungary. The numerous, fast-moving developments have resulted in a number of meetings held late at night and until the early hours of the morning. The delegates' lobby of the General Assembly building is brightly-lit during one of the night sessions. Delegates' cars are parked at the curb.Vivian Okeke, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Liaison Office in New York, addresses, on behalf of the Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the 91st plenary meeting of the General Assembly on general and complete disarmament, held to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests.From September to December 1948, the Palais de Chaillot, the emblematic building of the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris, hosted the third General Assembly of the United Nations. In the mural painting gallery of the Musée des Monuments Français, a man works on signs in preparation for the meetings.Annalena Baerbock (centre), President of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, holds up the gavel after it was handed to her by Philemon Yang (right), President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, during the closing meeting of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly. At left is Secretary-General António Guterres.Secretary-General António Guterres (right) speaks with Shyla Raghav, Chief Climate Officer of TIME Magazine, after delivering a special address on Climate Action “A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the New Energy Era”.María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, on her way to the opening of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in the General Assembly Hall.President of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa speaks at a concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in honour of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and sponsored by the Government of Spain, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.Annalena Baerbock (left), President of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, arrives to take the oath of office during the closing meeting of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly.The eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, which convened yesterday at U.N. Headquarters, elected Madam Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, of India, as its President. Madam Pandit is photographed here with U.N. Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjöld. (Picture taken is the Security Council chamber before the meeting of Steering Committee). Madame Pandit is the first woman president ever elected by a U.N. General Assembly.

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