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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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Ivory Carving "The Chengtu-Kunming Railway" 
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Headline Ivory Carving, “The Chengtu-Kunming Railway” 
Caption Description A view of a detail of the ivory carving of the “Chengtu-Kunming Railway”, a gift to the United Nations from the People's Republic of China. The ivory caving was carved on eight ivory tusks, which together weight more than 300 kilogrammes. The finished piece is 150 cm in length, 110 cm. in height and weighs more than 150 kilogrammes. The Chengtu-Kunming Railway was opened to traffic on 1 July 1970. It runs from Chengtu, Szechuan Province, in the north, to Kunming, Yunnan Province, in the south and covers a distance of 1,085 kilometres. With the iron-chained suspension bridge on the Tatu River, over which the Chinese Red Arm made a forced crossing during the Long March, as the background, this ivory carving presents in the centre the Tatu River steel bridge, which is typical of the many bridges built along this line, and uses it as the link to make the composition an integral whole. The main portion of the piece consists of two huge peaks connected by the railway bridge and the myriad mountains and rivers through which the railway passes. 
Unique Identifier UN7599281 
NICA ID 251254 
Production Date 09/14/1977 11:34:47 PM 
City/Location New York
Country United States of America
Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata
File size 3.95 MB