President Dedicates New U.S. Mission to UN
In the midst of a busy Manhattan political fundraising schedule, President Barack Obama visited the UN's Eastside neighborhood to officially open the new United States Mission to the UN, a modernistic multi- million dollar edifice.
During the dedication of the Ronald Brown building, named in honor of the Secretary of Commerrce killed in an plane crash while on service, Obama was joined by former President Bill Clinton and current American Ambassador Susan Rice.
The new offices for the US Mission have been operating for a few months, and were rebuilt on the site of the former Mission which stood at First Avenue across from the United Nations.
The former Mission was the diplomatic headquarters of such reknown American Ambassadors as Warren Austin, Adlai Stevenson, George Bush, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vernon Walters, John Negroponte, among others.
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