Security Council

United Nations Security Council Historical Tour

24 March 2026

Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) and members of the United Nations Security Council visits Lehman College in the Bronx for a United Nations Security Council Historical Tour. The event was hosted by Michael G. Waltz (left), Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of March. At right is James Kariuki, Acting Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.

Lehman College (then Hunter College) in the Bronx was one of the United Nations initial temporary headquarters and the location of the first UN Security Council meeting in the United States on 25 March 1946.

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