UN General Assembly Votes U Thant In As Secretary General (1962)

Location: New York, United States of America / USA GV. Flags outside UN building. VS. UN members walk forward and slip their votes into a box and the result is U Thant is no longer acting but is Secretary General of the United Nations. MS of U Thant speaking at the podium. (Comb. FG.) Note: U Thant is the Burmese representative to the UN. He has been acting Secretary General since the death of Dag Hammarskjold in 1961. The Russian vote was secured following U Thant’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis. U Thant was also know for his neutrality during the Cold War. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-193