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    committee The General Assembly is one of six of the main organs of the United Nations. It was officially established in 1945 by Chapter IV of the Charter of the United Nations, which guaranteed that all member nations are guaranteed at least one representative in the General Assembly. The Charter established that the purpose of the General Assembly was to find solutions to potential threats to international peace and security and other issues within the scope of the Charter. It also gave the General Assembly

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    by and for the world, one that should rally nations. The nature of this task however, must be clearly understood; only then can suitable means for accomplishing it be formulated, only then can the role that the United Nations could and should play be appreciated” ( Wilcox/Haviland, 29). There are many international organizations that have been talked about throughout this semester. One of the most important ones is The United Nations. The United Nations was established October 24, 1945, and has

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    | The United Nations | | | 2/14/2013 | A paper tiger? | | | The United Nations A paper tiger? The United Nations (U.N.) represents almost every nation in the world, with close to 200 member nations. Formed by world leaders a few months after the end of World War II, in 1945, the United Nations set world peace as its primary objective. While international tensions continued to run high throughout the Cold War, the U.N. helped world leaders negotiate differences and avoid another

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    There are enormous numbers of refugees in North America from all over the world, due to their unfortunate circumstances in their own countries. It is true that advanced countries around the world such as Canada, United States, also Non governmental organisations (NGOs), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) attempt to help those asylum seekers. Even though, this still is a problem as significant financing of UNHCR resettlement operations (including flexibility of resettlement in

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    The United Nations

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    What is the purpose of the United Nations (UN)? United Nations Charter dictates the principles are to save future generations from war, reaffirm human rights, establish equal rights for all persons, promote justice, freedom, and social progress for the peoples of all of its 193 member states. (United Nations, 2016) Explain the structure of the UN (including all the organizations under its umbrella). Briefly discuss the history of the UN. The United Nations was officially established on October 24

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    Charter of the United Nations, which outlined the laws of the United Nations. This charter created six different branches of the UN. One of the six organs was the UN Security Council. The Security Council was assigned the task of ensuring that international peace and security is maintained. The SC consists of fifteen total members whom are also members of the United Nations. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Republic of China, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great

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    on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the league of nations, any more that it could oppose the League of Nations” Said ones French Minister Aristide Briand. The League of Nations was the first worldwide organization to maintain peace and international cooperation that was born after the World War I. Officially it was established in January 10, 1920 and stopped their existence on April 18, 1946 when the United Nations took the responsibilities for the peace in the world. From all major

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    Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the principal organs of the United Nations. According to article 24 of the UN Charter, the foundational treaty of the United Nations, the UN Member States have conferred the primary responsibility of maintenance of international peace and security to the Security Council and have agreed that this body, in order to carry on this duty, acts on their behalf. The Member States have agreed to accept and carry out the decisions

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    The United Nations Security Council is one of the most important institutions within the United Nations as it is the body that can pass resolutions which binds all of its members. Although while in 1945, there were only 51 members in the United Nations and today the United Nations membership has risen to almost four times the number of the original one, the definitive authority of the United Nations Security Council - the right to cast a veto - is still in the hands of the post-World War II powers:

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    Donald Trump’s speech addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017 was not effective. Despite the speech having a universal message that is hard to disagree with, you can tell exactly which parts of the speech were written by a speech writer, and which parts of the speech were written by Trump himself. This wouldn’t be an issue if Donald Trump’s inflections weren’t full of fallacies and unnecessary statistics. For example, in the third paragraph, President Trump tries to

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