Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

UNDER CONSTRUCTION..

 

For over two Decades Mr. Uner Kirdar of the United Nations Development Programme

had a very inspiring relationship with Sri Chinmoy

and the Peace Mediation Group at the United Nations.

 

Below are some highlights and links to more detailed events.

U THANT PEACE AWARD GIVEN to• The United Nations Development Programme, for its sustained practical commitment to world progress through integral development and its dedication to the fulfilment of each nation’s unique potentialities. The leader of The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, Sri Chinmoy, presented the U-Thant Peace- Award this year to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The presentation was made March 19 during a ceremony on U Thant Island, in the East River. Dr. Uner Kirdar, who accepted the award on behalf of UNDP, said: “You are granting us the biggest honour.” The award, he added, belongs to UNDP field workers and those “whom we are privileged to serve.” In a subsequent letter to Sri Chinmoy, the head of UNDP, Bradford Morse, wrote: “This award . . . gives us new inspiration, dedication and energy to serve in the best manner millions of human beings in poor countries . .

 

A Programe was held where Mr. Uner Kirdar of UNDP addressed the members of the Peace Meditation Group on the Human Dimensions of Development. The Group Honoured Mr Kidarwith song that Sri Chinmoy had composed in his honour.

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1992 Mar 17:   Presentation of a signed book by Mr. Üner Kirdar, Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme – 27 March

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1996 Nov 25 :   Peace Concert by Sri Chinmoy offered at the UN, the second in a series of 50 concerts held worldwide in celebration of the Golden Jubilee Year of India’s Independence, with remarks by Mr. Üner Kirdar, Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme – 25 November

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1997 Jul 11:  Farewell tribute to Mr. Üner Kirdar, Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations

in Queens at Annam Brahma or at UN? (Photos form AB to be confirmed if match this date)

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The was  Message from Mr. Uner Kirdar Scholar, Diplomat, International Civil Servant Former Senior Official of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme (18 Apr 2000 for 30th Anniversary of Sri Chinmoy: the Peace Meditation at the United Nations ;…””…Your valuable work and commitment to make the United Nations a stronger organization, and the world a better and more humane place, is acquiring more importance each day…” MORE>

 

After Sri Chinmoy’s passing, tributes were received from around the world. including from: President, Mikhail Gorbachev; President Bill Clinton; President Nelson Mandela; Vice President Al Gore; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; H.E. Dr. SrgjanKerim, President of the United Nations General Assembly for the current 62nd Session; H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th Session of the UN General Assembly, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General…; Mr. Uner Kirdar Former Senior Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and Director of UNDP’s Development Study Programme “Today it is with great sorrow that I learned here in Istanbul, Turkey, of the passing of my very valuable and old friend Sri Chinmoy. For more than half a century, Sri Chinmoy was a tireless great leader of the spiritual world who supported strongly and wholeheartedly the noble ideals and goals of the United Nations. In this area, he was a true global citizen and a sleepless oneness-pathfinder. I am sure that his ideals, commitments and lessons will always be pursued by his followers and members of the Peace Meditation Group, at the United Nations as well as all over the world.