INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

📮DATE:- 21.09.2020

💢INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

✍The day was first celebrated in 1981

✍Theme 2020 :- Shaping Peace Together

✍Every year on 21st of September to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.

💠UN
🔸Founded :- 24 October 1945
🔸Headquarters:- Newyork
🔸Secretary General :- Antonio Guterres

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