At 24 October 2015, more than 150 monuments, buildings, museums, bridges and other iconic buildings, in more than 45 countries around the world, they will be illuminated in blue, the official color of the UN, in the context of the global campaign of the UNITED NATIONS, to celebrate UN Day and its 70th anniversary..
World-renowned monuments such as the Sydney Opera House, the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Empire State in New York, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hadrian's Gate in Athens and other iconic buildings, they will be illuminated in UN blue.
The participation of Greece in the campaign is also great, with many buildings lit up at 24 October. Among them the CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF AGIOS NIKOLAOS HERMOUPOLEOS, which will be illuminated on the evening of October 24 2015, following the initiative of the HOLY METROPOLITAN OF SYRUS in collaboration with the Office for Greece of the UN Information Center.
"I am grateful to the states – members showing such enthusiasm for the celebration of 70 years of the UN and for their support for peace, development and human rights", said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and added “Lighting our world blue for a day, we can light the way to a better future"!
The global celebration will begin in New Zealand and then move to Australia with the lighting of the Sydney Opera House. Subsequently, the UN Blue wave will cross countries and continents, as monuments around the world will be illuminated in sequence, participating in the international celebration.
“With our participation in this UN campaign, with the illumination of the magnificent Cathedral of Agios Nikolaos of Ermoupolis, due to Mr. Athanasios Foskolos, whom we thank for that, we are given a unique opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to UN principles of dignity and respect for human rights for all peoples", the Reverend Metropolitan of Syros, Mr. Dorotheos II.
The campaign and the hundreds of entries will be covered by the UN's social networks, while photos of the illuminated buildings will be uploaded to Flickr (http://j.mp/UNBluePhotos) and UNIFEED (http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/).
For more information on the UN 70th anniversary campaign and commemoration at www.un.org/UN70 .
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