Well over 100 individuals from more than 20 countries joined with family members of former United Nations Secretary General U Thant in Yangon in celebration of U Thant’s 103rd Birth Anniversary. UN dignitaries, members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the UN,...
U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was chosen to head the world body in November of 1961 after Secretary-Genera1 Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September of the same year. U Thant retired at the end of his second...
Excerpt: ‘Supremely significant are the words of the Secretary General, U Thant: “I can think of no worthier task for a man or a woman to be engaged in than that of creating the tools for international co-operation and working for the betterment of his fellow human...
