Credit: Gary Raynaldo /  A federal building in the historic United Nations Plaza located in San Francisco’s Civic Center district. UN Plaza was dedicated in 1975 to commemorate the formation of the United Nations via the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco. 

By Gary Raynaldo /  DIPLOMATIC TIMES

UNITED  NATIONS  –  The United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), commonly known as the San Francisco Conference, was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California. The convention resulted in the creation of the United Nations Charter, which was opened for signature on 26 June, the last day of the conference.  To mark this occasion, a special event took place in the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York, on Tuesday June 26, which also served as an opportunity to launch activities commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Organization, which will be celebrated next year.

Credit:  UN Photo/Amanda Voisard /Senior UN officials holding copies of the UN Charter at UN HQ in New York June, 26, 2019

Credit: Gary Raynaldo /   María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the General Assembly, in her opening address June 26, 2019 at UN  world headquarters in New York reminded delegates that the Charter, when it was signed in 1945, carried the “hopes of a world tired by war”

While it is easy to see the Charter as an “idealistic endeavour from another time”,  Espinosa said, its founders were not dreamers, but hard-headed leaders who “weighed the downside of compromise against the benefits of cooperation and the heavy cost of war.” Today, she continued, “we can summon the spirit of San Francisco”, which was on show at the signing of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, and just a few weeks later, at the signing of the historic Paris Agreement on confronting the global climate crisis. That spirit is needed now “more than ever”, she added.

The @UN Charter is an exceptional achievement in the annals of history.

74 years since the creation of the UN, the Charter still represents the best path we have for securing global peace, development and human rights.https://t.co/RVKV2UfOaM#CharterDay pic.twitter.com/O0i56eQHbX

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) June 26, 2019

United Nations Charter  Signed In San Francisco 1945

Credit: By Gary Raynaldo / A building in the  UN Plaza near Market Street in San Francisco’s Civic Center. The UN Charter was signed in the nearby Veteran’s Building. 

United States  Signed  the United Nations Charter in San Francisco  1945

Credit: http://www.sfmuseum.org / The United States Sign the United Nations Charter in San Francisco 1945.  US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Chairman, US Delegation, signing the UN Charter at a ceremony held at the Veterans’ War Memorial Building on 26 June. President Harry S. Truman stands by at left .