Sri Chinmoy meets with Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Co-ordination, at a meeting of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Miroku no Sato, Fukuyama, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 orphaned child performers and their manager from the Oriental Circus, at the Bali Garden Beach Resort in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia.
Leonardo da Vinci Institute is inaugurated as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Institute, in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
The Ferrovia Cicumetnea, the train that circles Mt. Etna, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Train (Treno Della Pace Sri Chinmoy) in Sicily, Italy. At the ceremony, Sri Chinmoy meets with the Archbishop of Catania Luigi Bommarito.
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Dr. Ananda Guruge, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to France, USA and UNESCO, at the Okura Hotel in Takamatsu, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Canal de Musica in Curitiba, Brazil. After the concert he is interviewed about his reasons for visiting Brazil and the importance of peace in the New Millennium.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 17,000th song in Christchurch, New Zealand, just before departing for Australia.