FWCC granted consultative status at the UN, enabling Quaker representatives to attend intergovernmental meetings and to make written and oral statements.
UN general assembly creates an economic commission for Africa. Private informal lunches take place at Quaker House, enabling diplomats from Black Africa to meet on an informal basis with a white South African diplomat.
Dag Hammerskjold, Secretary General, dies in air crash in the Congo. QUNO is asked to organize private meetings of UN ambassadors to discuss appointment of a new Secretary General.
Quakers lobby for a change of Chinese representation at UN from Taiwan to Beijing, thereby allowing all major nuclear powers to be represented at the UN. Quaker seminars held on the subject in six countries.
QUNO chairs the Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Committee for the UN Conference on the Human Environment. This was the first NGO forum during a UN conference.
UN holds its first General Assembly Special Session on Disarmament. QUNO co-chairs the NGO committee and participates with others in giving the first oral statements made by NGOs to the UN.
For the first time, a Chinese diplomat takes part in a meeting at Quaker House; Soviets are also present with
other representatives of the Security Council.
Quaker House is the venue of a series of meetings helping government representatives prepare for the Second Special Session on Disarmament, 1982. A Quaker representative addresses the Special Session.
From 1998-2001, Quaker House was the location for a series of meetings on peace in Korea, with North and South Korean diplomats meeting one at a time with a Quaker committee on Korea.
