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UN Celebrates Nelson Mandela Day, Tends to Newly Planted Trees

18 July 2014

The United Nations is partnering with MillionTreesNYC to care for dozens of newly planted trees near the UN Headquarters and in the community of East Harlem, New York City.
ohn W. Ashe (left of tree), President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, helps hang a commemorative Nelson Mandela International Day card on a young tree outside UN Headquarters.

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