United Nations Conference on Human Environment (UNCHE) Meets in Stockholm

The two-week U.N. Conference on the Human Environment (5-16 June) has been called by the General Assembly with the aim of producing an international political consensus on ways of preserving and improving the environment for this and future generations. About 1,200 delegates, many of them high-level decision-makers in government, are in Stockholm for the session, which is the first world-wide U.N. gathering to take a comprehensive look at our surroundings.

Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, are seen at the welcoming ceremony at Stockholm's Royal Opera House which proceeded the official opening of the Conference in the afternoon at Folkets Hus. In the centre is Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden.

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