Meetings & Events

UN Secretary-General at 6th World Health Assembly

23 May 1953

Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, new Secretary-General of the United Nations, photographed at the closing meeting of the sixth World Health Assembly, at the Palais des Nations, in Genera.
Just before this photograph was taken, Mr. Hammarskjöld delivered an address in which he paid tribute to Dr. Brock Chisholm, retiring Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
This was the first official visit of Mr. Hammarskjöld to any of the specialised agencies.

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