202580th Anniversary of the Founding of the United Nations - Set

The formation of the United Nations on the 24th October 1945 was preceded by the drafting and subsequent ratification of the United Nations Charter. It was a result of negotiations between the representatives of the 50 countries that went to war with Hitler’s Germany and imperial Japan. The negotiations and the formation of the UN took place in San Francisco, California, from the 25th April to 26th June, when the Charter was approved. It is a historical fact that one of the 14 members of the Coordination Committee responsible for the formulation of the final text was a Czechoslovak diplomat, JUDr. Ján Papánek. He was the second native of Brezová pod Bradlom who represented the democratic Czechoslovakia at the highest diplomatic forum. The first was JUDr. Štefan Osuský who from 1922 to 1937 was a Vice-Chairman of the Fiscal Commission of the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations which ceased operations on the 20th April 1945.