United Nations Day 2021

The United Nations was created on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. United Nations Day, on 24 October, marks the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the UN Charter entered into force.

The UN was founded to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and promote social progress, better living standards and human rights. Currently, the UN has 193 member states.

“The values that have powered the UN Charter for the last 76 years — peace, development, human rights, and opportunity for all — have no expiry date,”- underlines UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in this video message on the United Nations Day.

The UN Day is also a celebration of the close relationship between the UN and Georgia. Georgia became the 179th member of the United Nations on 31 July 1992. The Office of the United Nations in Georgia was established in 1993. Since then, the country has been home to UN agencies, funds, and programmes that work as a team to respond to national development needs and improve the human wellbeing, capabilities and social equality in Georgia. The Sustainable Development Goals remain our roadmap and we work towards all people benefitting from Georgia’s progress and development gains.

The UN-Georgia relationship is based on the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework that was signed  between the Government of Georgia and the UN on October 2,2020 and came into force on 1 January 2021. The cooperation framework’s main five streams are to help the country develop an inclusive economy and human capital; create effective, transparent and accountable governance institutions; provide all citizens equal and inclusive access to quality services; enhance human security, and protect the  environment and address the consequences of climate change. The ongoing pandemic and its related socio-economic impact remain a primary focus area of our work here in Georgia.

UN Day 2021 Activities:

UN Day 2021 will be marked in Georgia under the theme “Together for Global Goals”, underlining the need to continue joint efforts in response to Covid-19 pandemic and other challenges.

 The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on almost all countries across the world, including Georgia. To help speed up the vaccination process, the UN agencies support the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) in implementing the mobile vaccination campaign//marathon to reach hard-to-reach populations, including ethnic minorities, who have not yet been reached or have not responded to traditional public health communications in regions. Mobile vaccination teams made up of doctors and representatives of the NCDC continue to visit 49 villages for communicating the benefits of vaccination and vaccinating people. For this campaign, over 100,000 brochures in Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani languages have been printed as well as posters and banners.

 The youth campaign ‘’We Need “You” Decide!  to be launched in Rustavi on November 1 aims to counter misinformation and vaccine myths,  increase vaccine confidence and motivate young people to increase their role in the vaccination process.

 A new learning space ‘’SDG Open Zone’’ opened at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia by the UN Resident Coordinator, Sabine Machl and the Director of the National Library, Giorgi Kekelidze will enable library visitors to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals. It will become a space for various meetings, lectures and discussions.

In addition, the UN Resident Coordinator, Sabine Machl and the Heads of UN Agencies in Georgia released the joint video message on the United Nations Day.