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Flag of the United Nations, adopted on December 7, 1946. The BLUE stands as the opposite of the color RED, the color of WAR. The Olive branches are symbol of peace, and the world map shown represents ALL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. **__ Background Information __** - Founded in 1945 after World War II - A replacement for the League of Nations - 192 member states - Consisted of 5 Groups

1. The General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly) 2. The Security Council (decides certain resolutions for peace and security) 3. The Economic and Social Council (assists in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development) 4. The Secretariat (provides studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN) 5. The International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ)

- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - Main Goals

1. To stop wars between countries and to provide a platform for diplomatic talks 2. The Millennium Goal established in 2000 by the UN and to be accomplished by 2015

a. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger b. Achieve Universal Primary Education c. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women d. Reduce Child Mortality e. Improve Maternal Health f. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases g. Ensure Environmental Sustainability h. Global Partnership for Development (United Nations About the Millennium Development Goals)

__** History **__ The United Nations came as a replacement of the inefficient League of Nations (proven so when it could not stop WWII) as an international organization to govern the international world. The United Nations, likewise stated in the Treaty of Versailles from the League of Nations is to, "promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security." The name "United Nations" came from Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and since has become the general name. In 1945, representatives from 50 countries came to San Francisco at the United Nations Conference and affirmed the United Nations Charter. The representatives from the 50 countries signed the Charter on June 26th, 1945. From conferences after the conference of Dumbarton Oaks, the purpose of the United Nations expanded to not only international cooperation, peace, and security, but also included factors that lead to, "The Perfect World,” Outlined by the Millennium Goal in 2007: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger; Achieve Universal Primary Education; Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women; Reduce Child Mortality; Improve Maternal Health; Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases; Ensure Environmental Sustainability; Global Partnership for Development. International peace and security has always been on their agenda; however, it was not very long ago that they put health of the general public to their list. The United Nations continue till this day to achieve these goals and build the perfect world, the world where these problems are eliminated on every corner of the Earth. __** Puropse **__ //__Chapter 1, Article 1 of the UN Charter states The Purposes of the United Nations are:__// 1.To maintain international peace and security, to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; 2.To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; 3.To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and 4.To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends. __//Chapter 1, Article 2 of the UN Charter states The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles://__ 1.The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members. 2.All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter. 3.All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. 4.All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. 5.All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action. 6.The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security. 7.Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll. (United Nations Charter)


 * Basecically, it states that it will peacefully and equally solve international problems through a diplomatic matter, which maintains international peace and security.

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