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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 Gift of Latin American Countries to the United Nations

Caption Description The Latin American countries presented to the UN in 1977 a bronze plaque commemorating Simon Bolivar and the Congress of Panama, which he convened 150 years earlier. The sculpture by Venezuelan artist Marisol Escobar, has inscribed on it ""... in the march of the centuries, perhaps there will be one single nation covering the universe: the federal nation"" in Spanish. These words were spoken by Simon Bolivar, and were chosen to remind everyone of his universalist ideals whose concepts form the objectives of the Congress of the American countries.
A detail of the plaque.

Unique Identifier UN7770657

NICA ID 66722

Production Date 08/01/1985 11:10:41 AM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Lois Conner

File size 2.57 MB