United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) Meets at 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 man's surroundings.
From left: Mr. Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations; King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden; and Mr. Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the Conference, just before the Swedish welcoming ceremony at Stockholm's Royal Opera House which preceeded the official opening of the Conference in the afternoon at the Folkets Hus.