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A view of the visitor's lobby of the General Assembly building during the high-level week of the seventy-second session.
A detail view of the Trusteeship Council Chamber during the Summit of the Future Action Day Two.
The flags outside UN Headquarters are raised manually by UN Security Officers every weekday morning at approximately 8 am and lowered every weekday at around 4 pm, except in cases of bad weather. The 193 Member States of the United Nations are each assigned a flagpole, organized in English alphabetical order from north to south at UN Headquarters. In 2015, its non-member observer States (Holy See and the State of Palestine) got assigned their own flagpoles. On weekends, only the UN flag is raised. However, during UN General Assembly high-level week held in September each year, the flags of the UN and the world remain flying around the clock. 

A view of UN Security Officers in the process of raising flags at UN Headquarters.
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Unique ID UN7ALB50401 
A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, "Good Defeats Evil", by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture depicts St. George slaying the dragon. The Dragon here is made from actual parts of a Soviet SS-20 and an American Pershing II nuclear missiles, and represents the specter of nuclear war. The sculpture was presented to the UN by the Soviet Union in 1990 and commemorates the dismantling of the missiles under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed 8 December, 1987 by Presidents Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.
A view of participants in the press briefing with co-signatories of the letter calling for a halt to arms transfers to Israel.
Behind is a view of Picasso’s Guernica tapestry.
A detail of the “Non-Violence” or “Knotted Gun” sculpture by artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on the UN Visitors Plaza.

Then Secretary-General Kofi Annan said about the sculpture in 1999, “It has enriched the consciousness of humanity with a powerful symbol that encapsulates, in a few simple curves, the greatest prayer of man; that which asks not for victory, but for peace.”
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Unique ID UN7ALB50399 
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Headline Public Lobby in General Assembly Building 
Caption Description A view of the public lobby in the General Assembly building with the Foucault Pendulum on the left. The Pendulum offers visual proof of the rotation of Earth on its axis. It was presented by the Netherlands in 1955. It consists of a 200 pound gold-plated sphere suspended from the 75-foot ceiling by a stainless steel wire. [1993] 
Unique Identifier UN7771247 
NICA ID 70451 
Production Date 01/01/1993 11:33:38 AM 
City/Location New York
Country United States of America
Credit UN Photo/Andrea Brizzi
File size 2.10 MB