Haile Selassie address to the United Nations 1963 by Haile SalassieOctober 24, 1945 the United Nations was established in San Francisco, California and the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations is at a profound inflection point, once again. The United Nations has dared to act, when the League dared not in Palestine, in Korea, in Suez, in the Congo. The United Nations continues to serve as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion. As the maker and enforcer of the international law, what the United Nations has achieved still falls regrettably short of our goal of an international community of nations. The United Nations has done much, both directly and indirectly to speed the disappearance of discrimination and oppression from the earth.