Peace Bell Ceremony in Observance of International Peace Day

Maher Nasser (at podium), Acting Head, Department of Public Information, speaks at the annual ceremony held at UN headquarters in observance of the International Day of Peace (21 September). The theme of this year's International Day of Peace is ""Right of Peoples to Peace"" in honour of the 30th anniversary of the General Assembly Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace. Also pcitured, from left: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly; Mr. Ban's wife Yoo Soon-taek (partially in view); UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall; Motohide Yoshikawa (second from right), Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations; and Yoon Yeocheol, UN Chief of Protocol.