Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

1991 August to December

Partial List of programmes, events, countries, individuals participating in activities of Sri Chinmoy: the Peace Meditation at the United Nations.

This list is indicative of the types of activities but not exhaustive of all participation or events. Some times a consolidated or partial list sorted by subject-category, date, person or country. To be reviewed and updated. Eventually to have embedded links to actual programmes or photos where they are available

[Activities for the first part of 1991 are listed in the 60^th Birthday “America” book]

1991 part 2  – 7 August to 31 December

Closing ceremony of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, held on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, with participation of a number of Permanent Representatives to the UN, including

• H.E. Mr. Peter Wilenski, Ambassador of Australia;
• H.E. Mr. E. Besley Maycock, Ambassador of Barbados;
• H.E. Mr. Edward Kukan, Ambassador of Czechoslovakia;
• H.E. Dr. Diego Arria, Ambassador of Venezuela; and
• H.E. Mr. Aleksandr A. Razvin, Deputy Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the USSR        –       7 August

A cappella performance of Sri Chinmoy’s Bengali and English songs    –   8 August

Poetry reading, in honour of special guest Professor Talat Sait Halman, Turkey’s First Minister of Culture  –   9 August

Dinner for H.E. Dr. Ananda Guruge, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to France and UNESCO       –     7 September

Dinner and reception in honour of  Sri Chinmoy’s 60^th birthday; with remarks by

• Olympic legend Sudhahota Carl Lewis as well as by  distinguished guests from the UN community, including
• Professor Guido de Marco, President of the 45^th session of the UN General Assembly;
• H.E. Mr. IvanK. Sotirov, Deputy Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN;
•  H. E. Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus,former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN;
• Ms. Robin E. G. Mauala, Permanent Mission of  Western Samoa to the UN; and
• H.E. Mr. Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN    –   11 September

Peace Walk for the UN International Day of Peace held at UN Headquarters in conjunction with Peace Walks around the world   –    17 September

Interfaith Prayer Breakfast for the opening of the 46^th Session of the UN General Assembly,  hosted by H.E. Ambassador Andre Erdos, Permanent Representative of  Hungary to the UN    –    17 September

U Thant Peace Award presented to Mr. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of the Indian Ministry of  External Affairs  –     22 September

Dedication of a Sri Chinmoy Peace Tree at Marymount Manhattan College, with a performance by the Peace Meditation choir     –    25 September

Meeting with Nepal’s Minister of Education, Culture and Tourism, H.E. Mr. Ram Hari Joshi, and H.E. Ambassador Jayaraj Acharya, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN   –     27 September

U Thant Peace Award presented to Mr. Guido de Marco, President of the 45^th Session of the UN General Assembly, and Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta  –  28 September

Meeting with the General Director of the Tokyo Symphony, Mr. Shigeto Kanayama, before the Meeting with the Honourable Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov, Director, International Organisations Directorate, USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Ambassador Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN, at the USSR Permanent Mission to the UN     –   30 September

Peace meditation, in which Sri Chinmoy answered questions about the UN    –  18 October

Peace meditation; in which Sri Chinmoy answered questions about the UN     –  22 October

Meeting with Mr. Vladimir Petrovsky, Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR, at the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN   –  23 October

Flowers and inspirational quotes offered to UN delegates and staff as they entered the Secretariat  for UN Day     –   24 October

Peace Walk for United Nations Day, held in the United Nations Garden, cosponsored by 8 Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations  –  24 October

Sri Chinmoy Peace Race for the United Nations: Two-mile races held in over 140 cities around the globe to promote United Nations Day –  October

Concert by the Sri Chinmoy Bhajan Singers for Ambassadors’ wives at the home of Mrs. Savitri Nandoe, wife of H.E. Ambassador K. Nandoe, Permanent Representative of  Suriname to the UN  –  1 November

Peace meditation, in which Sri Chinmoy answered questions about the UN   – 1 November

Peace meditation, in which Sri Chinmoy answered questions about the UN   –    5 November

Concert by the Sri Chinmoy Bhajan Singers to celebrate the festival of Divali       –   6 November

Dinner in honour of Prince Sigvard Bernodette and Princess Marianne of Sweden    – 18 November

Celebration of the release of a bilingual Hindi and English volume entitled Poems of Sri Chinmoy, hosted by the UNSRC Society of Writers, with readings by

• Dr. P. Jayaraman, Executive Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA)  –      19 November

Meeting with Mr. Vladimir Petrovsky, Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR, at the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN  –     22 November

Thanksgiving programme and reception in honourof the 46^th Session of the UN General Assembly, with remarks by

• H.E. Ambassador Stanley Kalpage, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN;and
• H.E. Ambassador Perezi Karukubiro Kamunanwire, Permanent Representative of Uganda to the UN –  26 November

UNSRC Society of Writers featured in its literary journey Reflections a poem by Sri Chinmoy Entitled “The Golden Flute”  –   December

Dinner for H.E. Ambassador Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN, and his wife, Valentina  –   3 December

Peace Concert by Sri Chinmoy and luncheon to usher in a peaceful holiday season      –   6 December

12 Dec Welcome at Altaa Airport , Director of Culture in Minisry of Education.

15 Dec. Meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Guido de Marco, Hilton Hotel, St . Julian’s Bay

19 Dec ..Meeting with Valentina I. Matvienko, Soviet Ambassador to Malta, Soviet Embassy (received message from Gorbachev)

20 Dec. Meeting with Archbishop Joseph Mercieca at the Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana

23 Dec Meeting with President Censu Tabone and Mrs . Tabone of Malta at the Presidential Palace, Valletta

Private concert for President Tabone, his wife and invited guests at the Presidential Palace, Valletta

Meeting with Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami at the Auberge de Castille, Valletta

Meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Guido de Marco at the Auberge de Castille, Valletta

. 27 Dec Opening Ceremony of the Malta Peace Run in Valletta, attended by several ministers and ambassadors, including from China and Yugoslavia