COVER N. 703 - MOROCCO

Postmark:FDC:  Premier jour d'émission Meknès CD 24.10.2025 / Effective circulation postmark: Meknès C.D. 06.04.2026  

Posted on the 6th April;  Received on the 15th April 2026

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80 years of United Nations, the organisation created in the aftermath of the terrible worldwide conflict that followed on the  horrific conflict which engulfed the whole world, with the aim of ensuring  "Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet"...

It could be so; it has to be so, but it is hard to see it  ever happening when some of today's  aggressors have a permanent seat in the Security Council, what grants them the right of veto over any resolution voted.

And yet the action of the United Nations goes well beyond the Security Council, with the work of its many agencies that strive to ensure development and dignity to mankind through the establishment of policies, standards, procedures, practices in fields as diverse as Atomic energy, Health, Agriculture, Meteorology, Civil aviation, Culture  and quite a few more, not forgetting Postal policies.

The UN Charter entered into force on 24 October 1945, having been signed by 51 Member States, of which five were the already mentioned Permanent Members of the Security Council- USA, Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation), China, France and the United Kingdom.

80 years after, the Organisation has 193 member States as well as two observer states - the Holy See and Palestine and a good man as Secretary General - António Guterres and probably even bigger challenges than those it faced in the wake of its foundation in the wake of the Second World War.

If only the Rule of Law, on which the organisation was hopefully founded, would not, as it seems to have been, be briskly replaced by the rule of power, of military might, of the will of a man and not of Mankind.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Um grand Merci, Pierre, pour ce joli pli Premier Jour.

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation, Barid Al-Maghrib issued the 9.8 Dirham stamp on 24OCT2025, illustrated with images of the UN Headquarters in New York, and the flag poles with the flags of the member States, besides  a world map, and human figures representing the universal character of the organisation, all done in UN's official blue.

The logo of the 80th anniversary is also present on the top left corner of the stamp.