CRI听力:On UN Charter Day, Ban Calls for 'Deeper Cooperation' amid Growing Global Challenges

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in San Francisco to take part in events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter.

"The drafting of the Charter was a glorious gamble. Delegates from dozens of countries bet on humanity. So much faith was lost in the trenches and gas chambers of two world wars in the space of just one generation. But they dared to believe in something bigger than a person or a country."

Ban says that, although the UN Charter is often taken for granted today, it took a lot of effort from the delegates at the San Francisco meeting to bridge their differences.

"They knew you do not just rebuild broken societies with bricks and mortars, but with ideas and values for the human being. With the adoption of the UN Charter, a world in rubble found a path to renewal."

Ban also says in an article published in the Huffington Post, quote "as the distinctions between the national and the international continue to fall away, challenges faced by one become challenges faced by all, sometimes gradually but often suddenly."

The UN chief is also calling on the international community to work together to address such challenges as climate change, poverty and some other things on the global development agenda.

Ban says "we are the first generation that can erase poverty from the earth – and the last that can act to avoid the worst impacts of a warming world."

To commemorate the occasion, the UN has also unveiled the anniversary edition of the UN Charter featuring six languages.

In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the UN Conference on International Organization to draw up the charter.

The charter was signed on June 26 in 1945 at the conclusion of the conference and came into force on Oct. 24 of the same year.

The charter had been ratified by China, France, the former Soviet Union, the UK, the US and by a majority of its original signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on Oct. 24 each year.

For CRI, I'm Su Yi in New York.