Nobel Prizes
At the start of the U.N., Lester Pearson of Canada – later its prime minister – was nominated to be the first Secretary General. Although he received the majority of votes, the Soviet Union using its position on the Security Council vetoed his election. Dag Hammarskjöld of Norway was elected instead. However, Pearson continue to remain active in the U.N.
In 1956, Egypt blocked passage through the Suez Canal, which was used by many countries to transport cargo from the Indian Ocean and thereby Asia, but in particular oil from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries, to the Mediterean Sea and from there the Atlantic Ocean to several European countries and the United States. In response, Israel, England, and France invaded Egypt’s Sinai Desert, which was located on the eastern side of the Suez Canal, starting the Second Arab–Israeli War. It lasted about nine days.
The U.S., the Soviet Union, and the U.N. pressured Britain, France, and Israel to withdraw their troops and end hostilities. The Canadian diplomat, Lester Pearson suggested the U.N. send in unarmed and lightly armed military from a few neutral countries with a U.N. commander to ensure a peaceful withdrawal of troops from both sides. For its part, Canada provided one-thousand soldiers. These actions ended the Suez Crisis. As a result of his instrumental role in bringing peace to the Middle East, Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his work in establishing UN peacekeeping operations
In 1961, the Nobel Foundation posthumously awarded Dag Hammarskjöld, the first Secretary General the Nobel Peace Prize for developing the U.N. according to the UN Charter. He died in a plane crash earlier the same year, while flying to negotiate a cease fire in the Congo.
The stamp at the bottom of this page is to celebrate the U.N. Peacekeeping Forces receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. It received it for preventing armed clashes and creating conditions for negotiations throughout the world.
In 2001, the U.N. in general and Kofi Anan, the seventh Secretary General of the U.N. were awarded jointly the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.N. were given it for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. Kofi Anan received it because of his commitment to the struggle to contain the spread of HIV in Africa and his opposition to international terrorism.
In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a joint venture of the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Programme – for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about anthropogenic climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Note
The two stamps on the top of this album page commemorate the World Bank. I don’t have any page that talks about it. Maybe I’ll add one somewhere.
The first two stamps on the second row commemorate the World Weather Watch, an ongoing project of the World Meteorological Organization, which uses meteorological satelites to monitor weather conditions around the world and make forecases based on this and other information. See the Weather Watch page for more on this.
Contains 7 spots: own 7 – 7 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
88 |
5.50s (jan 1989) |
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✓ |
89 |
8s (jan 1989) |
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✓ |
91 |
4s (apr 1989) |
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✓ |
92 |
9.50s (apr 1989) |
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✓ |
93 |
5s (aug 1989) |
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✓ |
94 |
7.50s (aug 1989) |
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✓ |
90 |
6s (mar 1989) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
