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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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Headline Cyber Cocoon Kids Exhibition Opens at UN Headquarters

Caption Description A piece from the exhibition Cyber Cocoon Kids, created by artists Kevin Wang and Xie Long, and presented in association with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The pieces represent the isolation that can occur when children inhabit a cyber world that parents and caregivers do not fully understand. The four sculptures use a combination of form, lighting and voice to illuminate the four key risks from the perspective of children; cyberbullying, excessive use of the internet, online child sexual abuse and oversharing of personal information.

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NICA ID 781855

Production Date 10/08/2018 12:38:51 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Kim Haughton

File size 3.51 MB