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Two hands clasped, one white and one made of blocks of colour, under the UN’s fiftieth-anniversary emblem, with the words “50 Years of the United Nations” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
A Handshake for Fifty Years
India Post issued two stamps on 26 June 1995 for the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, ₹1 and ₹6. This one shows a handshake across differences of nation and colour, the idea on which the organisation was founded. The General Assembly first met in London in January 1946, with 51 nations represented, India among them. Its companion stamp shows the work of the UN’s agencies. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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