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WMO Celebrates Centenary of World Co-operation in Meteorology

10 September 1973

In observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the First Meteorological Congress, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sponsored an official ceremony here at the Swiss Federal Councillor Hans Peter Tschudi. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Tschudi, Mohammed Fathi Taha, President of WMO; David Arthur Davies, Secretary-General of WMO; and Vittorio Winspeare Guicciari, Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva, who delivered a message from UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.
General view of the ceremony

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