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1. UNARTI_031009_05.JPG: The wall shows the various Secretaries General for the UN
2. UNARTI_031009_07.JPG: The current Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who has served since 1996
3. UNARTI_031009_09.JPG: Everyone loved this guy because his name was so cute: Boutros Boutros Ghali, who served from 1992-96.
4. UNARTI_031009_10.JPG: Javier Perez de Cuellar, who served from 1982-1991
5. UNARTI_031009_11.JPG: Kurt Waldheim, who was later implicated as being part of the Nazis, served from 1972-82.
6. UNARTI_031009_12.JPG: U Thant, who served from 1961-71
7. UNARTI_031009_14.JPG: Dag Hammerskjold, who served from 1953-61, died during a peace mission to the Congo.
8. UNARTI_031009_16.JPG: Trugve Lie, the first Secretary General, served from 1946-53
9. UNARTI_031009_17.JPG: "Girl With Dove."
10. UNARTI_031009_23.JPG: This was our guide with a model of the complex. According to the book, the model was created in 1956.
11. UNARTI_031009_29.JPG: "Chengtu-Kunming Railway". The ivory carving depicts the construction of the Chengtu-Kunming Railway, which was opened to traffic on 1 July 1970. The railway covers a distance of 1,085 kilometers. With the iron-chained suspension bridge on the Tatu River, over which the Chinese Red Army made a forced crossing during the Long March, as the background, this ivory carving presents in the center the Tatu River steel Bridge. It also consists of two huge peaks connected by railroad bridge and myriad mountains and rivers through which the railway passes. A multi-layer and multi-facet way of presentation was employed. It concentrates in one picture typical industrial cities, factories, mines, water conservation projects, and terraced fields as well as the joyous people. The work was carved on eight ivory tusks, which together weighed more than 300 kilograms. The finished piece is 150 cm in length , 110 cm in height, and weighs more than 150 kilograms. The carving is displayed in the third floor passage connecting the Conference and General Assembly Buildings. The Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China made the presentation to the UN in 1974. The guide mentioned that ivory trade was banned by the UN shortly thereafter.
12. UNARTI_031009_32.JPG: "Suphannahong". In 1984, the Prime Minister of Thailand presented to the United Nations the only exact replica of the Royal Thai barge, "Suphannahong." The replica is one-tenth the size of the actual royal barge. It was carved out of a single trunk of teakwood and was undertaken by the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Education of Thailand. The original barge was completed in 1911 and was used by the King of Thailand in April 1982 during the bicentennial celebration of the founding of Bangkok, the Thai capital. The gift measures 4.49 meters long and .314 meters wide and is decorated with gilded carvings. It is located on the third floor of the Conference Building, the neck area between the General Assembly Building and the Conference Building.
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