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Article: Secretary-General calls for realization of United Nations full potential at 40th anniversary celebration. (Javier Perez de Cuellar)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- June 1, 1985
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Secretary-General calls for realization of United Nations full potential at 40th anniversary celebration
"The vision of peace shared by the signers of the Charter was based on an understanding of reality--the reality that the risk of widespread war was no longer tolerable."
During special observances in San Francisco on 26 june 1985--the 40th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter--Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar called on all Governments and peoples to affirm their determination to "build on the achievements of the United Nations and to overcome such weaknesses as has been evident", so that the Organization's full potential ...