India on United Nations: Shaping Our Future Together

India‘s 75^th anniversary United Nations issue celebrates shared values and a longstanding commitment to multilateralism, peace, sustainable development and global cooperation :

Issued by India

Issued on Oct 23, 2020

Issued for : Department of Posts is pleased to issue a Commemorative Postage Stamp on United Nations on its 75^th Anniversary.

Credits :
Stamp : Sh. Bramh Prakash
FDC : Smt. Alka Sharma
Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Smt. Nenu Gupta

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 500 Paise

Stamps Printed : 500000 each

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

About : 

• The postage stamp is but a miniature sheet of the shared values and the special relationship between India and the United Nations. Department of Posts is delighted to release a Commemorative Postage Stamp on 75 years of the United Nations on 23^rd October, 2020.
• Earlier collaborations include stamps released by India on 24^th October, 1954 on the occasion of the United Nations Day; on 24^th October, 1985 to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the United Nations and on 26^th June, 1995 to mark 50 years of the United Nations.
• In the recent past, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) released a set of stamps featuring endangered migratory species, from Gandhinagar, India on 17^th February, 2020. A Definitive stamp was released by it on 2^nd October, 2019 on the occasion of the 150^th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and a stamp on Diwali, the festival of lights, on 19^th October, 2018. India Post and the UNPA jointly issued the HeForShe postage stamp to promote gender equality on 8^th March, 2016.
• India and the United Nations have an abiding commitment to multilateralism and dialogue as the key to achieving shared goals and addressing challenges faced by the global community.
• As an active member of the United Nations, India has made significant contributions to implementing the goals of the UN Charter in peace building and peacekeeping, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environment, climate change, terrorism, disarmament, human rights, health and pandemics, migration, cyber-security, space and frontier technologies like Artificial intelligence and reforms of the United Nations.
• The Landmark Moments in this relationship include:
  • 1945 India signed the United Nations Charter
  • 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by India
  • 1950 India was first elected to serve on the Security Council
  • 1973 India signed the Biological Weapons Convention
  • 1980 India signed the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
  • 1993 India signed the Chemical Weapons Convention
  • 2000 India signed the Millennium Declaration
  • 2007 2^nd October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi declared the International Day of Non Violence
  • 2014 21^st June declared the International Day of Yoga
  • 2015 India adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
  • 2015 India signed the Paris Agreement on global warming
• The words Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam, “the whole world is a family”, have often reverberated in the hall of the United Nations. In the raging times of the COVID-19 pandemic, India upheld this principle by supplying essential medicines to more than 150 countries. As the largest vaccine producing nation of the world, India committed itself at the 75^th UN General Assembly in September, 2020 to help all humanity in fighting the crisis.
• An anniversary is as much a time to look back as to move forward. As a country representing 18% of the world population which nurtures hundreds of languages and dialects, many sects and ideologies and is a leading economy, India is in particular a proponent of reform in the United Nations.
• Text : Sh. Ashok Pal Singh