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    of Korea. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly decided to allow the constitution of the Republic of Korea. In 1950, tensions between these two hostile governments soon erupted into a war. This war resulted in 2.5 million casualties, and ended in July 1953, with

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    This means the cooperation of different nation states to complete missions or activities that will end in the result of lasting peace. The main contributor to international peacekeeping is the United Nations. The United nations is “an international organization where the missions and work is guided by the proposing and principles contained in the founding charter” ( United Nations website). Despite the substantial amount of peacekeeping the united nations does there are outside forces such an non-governmental

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    Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. Other efforts of the UN: Protecting the rights of women  United Nations Conference On Sustainable Development 2012 The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) brought Heads of State and Government to Brazil in 2012, to appraise progress in the implementation of agreements struck since the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. At “Rio+20”, countries renewed their political

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    by the United Nations. Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 were presented in hopes of alleviating the situation. Security Council Resolution 242 established the principles that were to guide the negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement and "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”. Security Council Resolution 338, adopted on October 22, 1973, called for a ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War, proposed jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union. The resolution demanded

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    MAJ Almir Halebic The United Nations, World Government, Usless Discussion Club or Something Else? Even though, the original thought for the United Nations was to be a guarantee for the World’s peace, their role in today’s world seems to have changed. It is hard to believe that their founders had today’s United Nations on mind when discussed their creation sixty years ago. “The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law

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    old questions is whether or not the United Nations is effective. The United Nations was created to keep peace throughout the world, develop friendly relations among nations, and to help nations work in coordination to improve the lives of the needy, end hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms. In Press Release SG/382, dated May 13, 1954, Dag Hammarskjold stated that “it has been said that the United Nations was not created in order to bring us

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    major terrorist groups stirring up trouble, such as in the Middle East, many people live in fear of these emerging threats. Throughout Vietnam’s long history, there have been many cases of terrorism. During the Vietnam War, the US and other western nations committed many atrocious acts of terror against the Vietnamese population. In 1968, one of the worst acts of terrorism, the My Lai Massacre, occurred in Vietnam. This atrocious act was committed by the US. According to one American soldier during

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    PEACEKEEPING AGENDA In International Relations, mediation and peacekeeping are the very essence of what are international relations itself, international organizations and regional organization like the African Union. First established by the United Nations decades ago, it has played an outstanding role in the peaceful aim and determination of armed conflict around the world. It was at the end of the Cold War that it mostly reached its peak as many long-term conflicts were finally coming to an end

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    be considered as a revolutionary factor to the concept of attribution. Lastly, this essay will examine the recent changes occurred in customary law on state responsibility in the light of the application and interpretation of Article 51 of the United Nations Charter after the events of September 11. All these aspects will demonstrate that not only has the law on state responsibility had noticeably developed and consequently provided states with adequate legality to react to the challenges posed by

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    The Idea Behind The United Nations Is To Be Democratic In Solving World Political, Economic and Social Issues, But Is It Successful In This Effect? Stephen Goodspeed describes the organizational framework of the United Nations as “an association of states that through a multipartite treaty, the Charter, have elected to follow a certain course of action in given circumstances in order to accomplish specific aims and purposes.” It has the legal capacity whereby, it is able to act as a subject

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