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 [...]
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 [...]
A new history of the turbulent 1960s told through the life of U Thant, the first UN secretary-general of color, whose decisions once shaped global war and peace. Born in a [...]
