One of the legacy of U Thant is the establishment of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in 1970. Here is a copy of U Thant’s letter to President Nixon advocating [...]

In October 1965 everyone on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee voted to award that year’s prize to then U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, for defusing the Cuban Missile [...]

Today is 60th Anniversary of the appointment of U Thant from Myanmar, as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. U Thant was unanimously appointed [...]

U Thant was a passionate advocate of environmental protection during his tenure as UN Secretary-General. His efforts led to the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1972 [...]

The UNDP is – to some extent – U Than’t creation.  U Thant made the 1960s the “Decade of Development.”  The UNDP was set up in [...]