United Nations G.K. notes

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1. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.

2. It develops friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

3. It is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.

4. The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City; other main offices are in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague.

5. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations.

6. The organization's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies.

7. Its missions have consisted primarily of unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.

8. The UN, its officers, and its agencies have won many Nobel Peace Prizes, though other evaluations of its effectiveness have been mixed. Some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called it ineffective, biased, or corrupt.

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