International Delegate’s Day
- International Delegate’s Day marks the anniversary of the first day of the SanFrancisco conference also known as United Nations conference on international organiztaion
- On 25 April 1945, delegates from fifty countries came together for the first time in San Francisco.
- Coming together after the devastation of the Second World War, their aim was to set up an organization that would restore world peace and impose rules on the post-war world order.
- Two months after the first meeting, on 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed by representatives of the 50 countries that attended the conference.
- The agreement resulted in the creation of the United Nations.
- The 2020 International Delegate’s Day is special for two reasons.
- First, 25 April 2020 is the first time that International Delegate’s Day is observed.
- Second, the 2020 observance also marks the milestone seventy-fifth anniversary of the San Francisco Conference, an event that laid the foundations of the United Nations.
