Tree Planting Ceremony for Commemoration of 80th Anniversary of United Nations and Atomic Bombings in Japan

Philemon Yang, President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, plants a Hibakujumoku (tree that survived the 1945 atomic bombing in Japan) during a ceremony to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the right wearing white is Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.

The ceremony was organized by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and United Nations Staff Recreation Council Gardening Club.