At 65438 local time on February 22, 2023, the 78th United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution by consensus to designate the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) as a United Nations holiday. The Spring Festival becomes a United Nations holiday, which is a practical action to implement the global civilization initiative and advocate respect for the diversity of world civilizations. The Spring Festival officially became a United Nations holiday, which fully demonstrated the spreading influence of Chinese civilization.
Festivals celebrated by United Nations Headquarters and offices around the world are approved by the United Nations General Assembly and generally last for 65,438+00 days each year, including legal holidays and important religious festivals in the host country. In addition to the important statutory holidays in the host country, United Nations holidays also include festivals widely celebrated around the world and adopted by consensus by the United Nations General Assembly. On holidays, the United Nations tries to avoid arranging meetings and activities.
Arrangements for United Nations holidays:
Take the United Nations Headquarters in new york and the Geneva Office as examples. In 2023, these two places made a "9+ 1" holiday arrangement, that is, 9 fixed public holidays+1 floating holidays. In terms of fixed official holiday arrangements, well-known festivals such as New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are the same options in both places.
In addition, the two places also include American Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Swiss National Day, Pentecost Monday and other host country festivals. It can be seen that the setting of legal holidays of the United Nations often has strong local characteristics of the host country (region).
On the arrangement of floating holidays, the same options in the lists of the two places are Orthodox Christmas, Nowruz, Orthodox Good Friday, Vesak, Yom Kippur, Diwali and Golprabo. The list of floating holidays in new york headquarters includes Martin Luther King Day, and the list in Geneva uses Jesus ascensiontide instead of Martin Luther King Day.