20th ANNIVERSARY OF U.N.

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 12

20th ANNIVERSARY OF U.N.

(N.Z.PA. Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 10. The United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant, said last night that the world still faced the same fundamental problems it did when the United Nations was created 20 years ago.

In a message to commeni orate the twentieth sary of the first Genera Assembly meeting in London U Thant said the organisatioi now had to tackle differen issues. “Yet common strands tie th, two periods together.” hi said. “Above all, there are sti! the political differences be tween the great Powers, stil the awfu' implication' o nuclear armament, st H th< intolerable inequa'ity in thi distribution among th <

n- peoples of the world of the r- benefits of scientific and techal nologkal development, and n, still, indeed, man’s inhuman>n ity to man, that press most tit strongly upon the destinies of all of us. ie “It is the surface of things ie which has changed—-the shape of our problems, the identity ill of the leading figures—rather e- than the fundamental causes.” 11 A heartening change was jf that more people looked to ie ‘he United Nations for effecte tive action “to help set the e world right,” U Thant said.