UN Headquarters

Flags of 16 New UN Member Nations Fly at Headquarters

9 March 1956

A brief ceremony took place this afternoon at UN Headquarters, in New York, on the occasion of the first raising of the flags of the sixteen new Member States of the United Nations. The flags were raised one at a time. This picture shows a UN Guard raising the Bulgarian flag in the presence of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. Other flags already flying are those of (left to right), Romania, Austria, Italy and Hungary.

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