UN celebrates 75th anniversary today

Today (Saturday), October 24, marks the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the United Nations (UN). The day is known as United Nations Day.

The global accord which greeted the UN’s formation in 1945 was the natural response to the horrors of the Second World War.

The first Article of the UN’s Charter says: ‘To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace...’.