UN at 80

Our achievements should give us hope for a better future.

Eighty years ago, in June, the Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco, turning the page on decades of war and offering hope for a better future. For 80 years, the United Nations stood as the highest expression of our hopes for international cooperation and as the fullest embodiment of our aspiration to end the “scourge of war.” Even in a world steeped in cynicism, this is a milestone worth acknowledging.