Rising impressively from the banks of New York City's East River, the United Nations' tall, stately Secretariat building and the neighboring General Assembly, Conference, and Library buildings project an image of dignity, stability, and purpose. Few visitors walking for the first time into the modern, well-lit lobby of the General Assembly building fail to be impressed by a sense of far-reaching importance. Surely, behind these walls serious diplomats from around the globe are carefully pondering and resolving weighty matters of great international significance – striving, in the words of the U.N. Charter, "to save succeeding generations from the scourage of war."
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