UN is the abbreviated name for the United Nations, created in the year that World War II ended. 1945 was the beginning of the unification of many peacekeeping organizations into one, headquartered in the United States, New York.
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Step 1
Before the emergence of the UN in Europe, North America and Russia, there were organizations that promoted an interstate union for the benefit of all mankind. In particular, the League of Nations and the diplomatic cultural education "European Concert" acted with such a postulate. However, the Second World War required the emergence of a more weighty and serious structure. And in early 1945, the world's largest powers such as the Soviet Union, the United States, China, Great Britain and France, at a conference in San Francisco, signed an agreement establishing the United Nations. Within six months, 45 more states joined the UN, later Poland joined them.
Step 2
Today the United Nations has about two hundred members, including such exotic countries as the Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Guinea-Bissau, Antigua and Barbados. A state can become a new member of the United Nations only if it is ready to establish diplomatic relations and promote peacefulness. Also, the members of the Council must vote for the candidate, with the result of at least nine positive votes out of fifteen. The decisive word belongs to the USA, Russia, China, France and Great Britain, the founding countries of the UN.
Step 3
The United Nations consists of six structural units. This is the UN General Assembly, which discusses issues related to maintaining common peace and security at annual meetings in the presence of representatives of 193 participating countries. Also included in the UN are the Security Council, the Economic Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice and the Secretariat. Of all the divisions, only the Security Council has the right to make specific decisions regarding the maintenance of peace, up to the call of the participating countries to collective peacekeeping measures. Resolutions of all other UN divisions are of a recommendatory nature.
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On the territory of the Soviet Union, the first UN agency began operating three years after the creation of the United Nations. In 1948, the Information Center was opened in Moscow, later it was joined by fourteen more structures. Today, UN agencies in Russia determine the strategic development of state programs aimed at maintaining economic development, the health of the country's population, as well as control over the demographic situation and the environment.