United Nations

Both the US and the United Nations, which the US is a member of, responded by sending soldiers to fight North Korean and later, Chinese aggression by helping the South Koreans defend their country. The war eventually ended and the US still keeps soldiers in South Korea not too far from the North Korean border to discourage new agression by the North Koreans.

The United Kingdom was at war with Germany from September 1945 till May 1945 - longer than any other country. Obviously, it did not participate in the Holocaust. Between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939 the United Kingdom accepted a total of 71,000 refugees from Nazi Germany (and later also Austria). The country could have accepted more.

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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been making threats against Kuwait for some time, but his actual invasion caught most of the world by surprise. Those who expected an attack, suspected the oil fields would be seized, but within hours, Iraqi troops had seized downtown Kuwait, and were headed for the Saudi border.

9 votes is required for the simple majority, plus it is necessary that no P5 member (states which permanently sit on the Security Council and hold the power of veto - these being the US, the UK, France, China and Russia), votes against the resolution.

The United States and The United Kingdom

1. Maintaining peace and security - By having deployed a total of 42 peace-keeping forces and observer missions as of September 1996, the United Nations has been able to restore calm to allow the negotiating process to go forward while saving millions of people from becoming casualties of conflicts. There are presently 16 active peace-keeping forces in operation.
2. Making peace - Since 1945, the United Nations has been credited with negotiating 172 peaceful settlements that have ended regional conflicts. Recent cases include an end to the Iran-Iraq war, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, and an end to the civil war in El Salvador. The United Nations has used quiet diplomacy to avert imminent wars.
3. Promoting democracy - The United Nations has enabled people in over 45 countries to participate in free and fair elections, including those held in Cambodia, Namibia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Mozambique, Nicaragua and South Africa. It has provided electoral advice, assistance, and monitoring of results.
4. Promoting development - The UN system has devoted more attention and resources to the promotion of the development of human skills and potentials than any other external assistance effort. The system's annual disbursements, including loans and grants, amount to more than $10 billion. The UN Development Programme (UNDP), in close cooperation with over 170 Member States and other UN agencies, designs and implements projects for agriculture, industry, education, and the environment. It supports more than 5,000 projects with a budget of $1.3 billion. It is the largest multilateral source of grant development assistance. The World Bank, at the forefront in mobilizing support for developing countries worldwide, has alone loaned $333 billion for development projects since 1946. In addition, UNICEF spends more than $800 million a year, primarily on immunization, health care, nutrition and basic education in 138 countries.
5. Promoting human rights - Since adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the United Nations has helped enact dozens of comprehensive agreements on political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights. By investigating individual complaints of human rights abuses, the UN Human Rights Commission has focused world attention on cases of torture, disappearance, and arbitrary detention and has generated international pressure to be brought on governments to improve their human rights records.
6. Protecting the environment - The United Nations has played a vital role in fashioning a global programme designed to protect the environment. The "Earth Summit," the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, resulted in treaties on biodiversity and climate change, and all countries adopted "Agenda 21" - a blueprint to promote sustainable development or the concept of economic growth while protecting natural resources.
7. Preventing nuclear proliferation - The United Nations, through the International Atomic Energy Agency, has helped minimize the threat of a nuclear war by inspecting nuclear reactors in 90 countries to ensure that nuclear materials are not diverted for military purposes.
8. Promoting self determination and independence - The United Nations has played a role in bringing about independence in countries that are now among its Member States.
9. Strengthening international law - Over 300 international treaties, on topics as varied as human rights conventions to agreements on the use of outer space and seabed, have been enacted through the efforts of the United Nations.
10. Handing down judicial settlements of major international disputes - By giving judgments and advisory opinions, the International Court of Justice has helped settle international disputes involving territorial issues, non-interference in the internal affairs of States, diplomatic relations, hostage-taking, the right of asylum, rights of passage and economic rights.
11. Ending apartheid in South Africa - By imposing measures ranging from an arms embargo to a convention against segregated sporting events, the United Nations was a major factor in bringing about the downfall of the apartheid system, which the General Assembly called "a crime against humanity." Elections were held in April 1994 in which all South Africans were allowed to participate on an equal basis, followed by the establishment of a majority government.
12. Providing humanitarian aid to victims of conflict - More than 30 million refugees fleeing war, famine or persecution have received aid from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 1951 in a continuing effort coordinated by the United Nations that often involves other agencies. There are more than 19 million refugees, mostly women and children, who are receiving food, shelter, medical aid, education and repatriation assistance.
13. Aiding Palestinian refugees - Since 1950, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has sustained four generations of Palestinians with free schooling, essential health care, relief assistance and key social services virtually without interruption. There are 2.9 million refugees in the Middle East served by UNRWA.
14. Alleviating chronic hunger and rural poverty in developing countries - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has developed a system of providing credit, often in very small amounts, for the poorest and most marginalised groups that has benefited over 230 million people in nearly 100 developing countries.
15. Focusing on African development - For the United Nations, Africa continues to be the highest priority. In 1986, the United Nations convened a special session to drum up international support for African economic recovery and development. The United Nations also has instituted a system-wide task force to ensure that commitments made by the international community are honoured and challenges met. The Africa Project Development Facility has helped entrepreneurs in 25 countries to find financing for new enterprises. The Facility has completed 130 projects which represent investments of $233 million and the creation of 13,000 new jobs. It is expected that these new enterprises will either earn or save some $131 million in foreign exchange annually.

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In 1947, the United Nations, not the United States, adopted a plan calling for the division of the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab States. The United States supported this Resolution but did not "adopt" it.

The United Nations designated for there to be a Jewish State in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947. Israel was declared by its Jewish inhabitant pursuant to the United Nations provision in 1948.

Based on the fact that UN forces accomplished their military objectives, no, the UN was not defeated in the Korean War. The mission of the UN forces was to a) stop the advance of communist North Korean forces into sovereign South Korea (accomplished); b) cause the invading North Korean forces, through force or diplomacy, to pull back north of the 38th parallel (accomplished); c) to reach an agreement on a cease-fire (accomplished).

The united nations was a group created around 1945. There purpose was to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development. They were based on humanity an the well being of the people.

To maintain international peace.

Perhaps a dozen people who read our weekly article are going to love what follows. My apologies to the rest of you. Anyone who knows me is well acquainted with my love for history. As a preacher, I actually own more books on history than theology. At Birmingham-Southern, most of a lifetime ago, I majored in American history and later in seminary, focused on church history. Thirty years ago, I decided to collect all the books on Harry Truman I could find (he was the first president I actually remembered from my childhood). After a decade during which I accumulated over eighty volumes, I gave that pursuit up as too expensive and unnecessary. I still own the books, however, and wonder sometimes what to do with them. I've been to Civil War battlefields, and presidential homes and libraries all over the country. It all fascinates me. In particular these days, the Second World War has become my major historical interest. For years, I resisted getting into the study of this defining event of the 20th century, probably because there is so much of it and where does one begin. Born in 1940, I recall only smidgens of the war, mainly uncles coming home in their uniforms and my siblings standing out in the yard when a plane would go over, calling to an uncle ("Hey, John L.") who was undoubtedly riding that particular one. I don't think my interest in the war could be called nostalgia since I have no actual memories of any significant aspect of it. I once read a journal which a British lady had kept during the war and that may have hooked me more than anything else. When Stephen Ambrose started the wonderful D-Day Museum here in New Orleans, I became a charter member. I will not bore you with the books I have read or the old, out-of-date and out-of-print books I am now collecting. However, I am leading up to telling you something I find fascinating. My office at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans sits on land reclaimed from Lake Pontchartrain in the 1930s. Some 3,000 feet out into the lake, a stepped seawall was built, some five and a half miles long. Sand from the bottom of the lake was pumped outside the seawall to form a long strip of land. (Get your atlas down, look up Louisiana and find a map of New Orelans. The strip begins at Pontchartrain Boulevard on the west, reaches to the Lakefront Airport on the east, and is bounded by Robert E. Lee Boulevard on the south.) Originally, the plan had been to build exclusive residential areas on the new land, but when the Second World War came, the federal government took over the 2,000 acres for military installations from one end to the other. Military hospitals, several bases, a German POW camp, a center to train Naval pilots, a factory to build PBY planes, and Camp Leroy Johnson all occupied this territory. Talk about being in the middle of history! This is the place. (Most of what I have learned on this comes from Mary Lou Widner's book, "New Orleans in the Forties." Today, the University of New Orleans sits smack in the middle of this land. Our office is across Elysian Fields Avenue from UNO.) The other day I was having lunch with Ron, a pastor who has resigned his church to go to the Middle East where he works for a firm providing security for U.S. military bases. In 2004, Ron spent several months on leave from his church working in Pakistan and found more opportunities to minister in that short time than in years at his church. Now, he's about to be recalled to another assignment in that part of the world. Toward the end of the meal, Ron said something about knowing the city where we are living. I said, "Okay, let's test your knowledge of this city." I pointed toward the UNO Lakefront Arena and said, "What was located on that site during the Second World War?" He said, "A German POW camp." I said, "How did you know that?" (Had he read Mrs. Widner's book?) He said, "I was born in 1944 and grew up two miles from here. I know all about this area." He proved it. Over the next fascinating half-hour, Ron showed me remnants and evidence of the Second World War all around me.

When I pointed out the area where the Consolidated Vultee Corporation used to manufacture PBY Catalina planes, Ron said, "Here--I'll show you the break in the seawall where they launched them over the lake. I used to come out here and watch them do it." (This had gone on after the war's end, in case you're figuring dates here.) Sure enough, there is the cut in the wall, about the width of two lanes of traffic where something like a pier used to jut into the lake, from which the planes would take off. "I'll show you Camp Leroy Johnson," he said. I said, "It doesn't exist any more. How can you show it to me?" He said, "Come with me." We were in my car, but he was the navigator. Just behind the UNO Lakefront Arena lies a massive open field, the size of several footfall fields laid side by side. The gate was open and we pulled into the area. To my surprise, the paved streets and avenues of Camp Leroy Johnson were still there. No buildings, no structures of any kind, just green grass and paved streets. "What is the metal pavilion over there?" I asked, pointing to a rusting structure standing perhaps 50 feet tall at the edge of the field. Ron said, "That's where the pope spoke when he came to New Orleans. It's sacred to Catholics." I pass that site every day and had often wondered what that little monstrosity meant. Ron said, "Have you ever seen the lighthouse that stood at the old Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park?" I said, "There is still a lighthouse at the western end of Lakeshore Drive. But I don't think there's one around here." I went on, "In fact, when they tore down the amusement park, they turned this area at the end of Elysian Fields into a research and development park. Nothing but steel and glass buildings." Ron said, "Let's go see." We drove into the R & D center and found a cove for the car. As we got out, I saw the lighthouse standing right in front of me. Perhaps 60 feet tall, it's now showing its age and is surrounded by a rusting fence. Like a tramp camped out on a park bench in Silicon Valley, it was so out of place. Ron said, "Now, Joe, bear in mind that this lighthouse used to be out in Lake Pontchartrain. When they filled in this area, in effect they moved it onto dry ground." I said, "How old do you think it is?" "At least around 1900," he said. A guard came up to see what these two strangers were up to, heard this part of the conversation, and said, "Nope. It was built in Civil War days." All the more impressive. "Look at the doors, Ron," I said. At the base of the lighthouse on each side stood two metal doors, heavy with rust. But each one was no more than four feet tall, as though put there for midgets. The guard said, "You know why, don't you. This lighthouse used to be on a base high above the water. When they pumped the sand in here, they buried the bottom half of it." Ron said some local societies have been trying to decide what to do about the lighthouse, how to preserve and memorialize it, but no one has done anything yet. Meanwhile, it sits there rusting away, looking something like Captain Ahab in the middle of Time Square. Every morning I come to work by driving up Elysian Fields all the way to Lakeshore Drive. As I make the turn, I am face to face with the ancient lighthouse. Yet I had never seen it until today when my friend Ron introduced us. I wonder what else I am missing in life because I refuse to see. And to whom can I be a "Ron" and open their eyes to the wonders around them. "Lord, open the eyes of these men so they can see." II Kings 6:20

It was created to keep peace throughout the world.

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Each country is represented at the United Nations by a designated delegate or ambassador, typically appointed by the national government. This representative participates in UN meetings, negotiations, and various committees on behalf of their country. The representative is responsible for advocating their nation's interests and contributing to international discussions on global issues. Additionally, the UN General Assembly and Security Council provide forums where member states can voice their positions and collaborate on international matters.

They joined in the late 300's. Though they had to fight the Aztecs AND Vulcans for the spot the war soon came to an end when the Indians joined Israel in an attempt to engage warp over drives in order to stabilize the time space continuum! KICK ASS!

Supposedly the United Nations.

to protect itself from outside predators, to insulate itself against those who would attack its mores, tenets, beliefs or systems of law or economics. And, on the other hand, to be unionized in order to attack another entity should that become necessary

The United Nations, as a whole, is used as a forum for international discussion on topics affecting the entire world. Beyond that, there are many committees in the UN who focus on different topics. For example, UNICEF is used to improve children's education worldwide. There are committes for humans rights, environmental protection, women's rights, refugees, and many other things. Originally, the UN was founded as a forum for global peace, and while this is definitely a focus, the different UN committees focus on different things. The Charter for the UN, found on the official UN site, says this, " WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED * to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and * to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and * to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and * to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, " This is the official charter of the UN: http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml Hope this helps!

SAM WINFREY- I HAVE THE ORIGINAL PAPERS AND THE OUTLINE SETTING IT UP. tHE ORIGINAL TO SENATOR CONNLEY.MR CONNLEYS ANSWER TO MR WINFREY ON SENATE LETTERHEAD.THE LETTER FROM SENATOR CONNLEY WHO LATER TOOK CREDIT FOR IT FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING ,THIS OF COURSE Was IN THE 1930'S.SAM WINFREY BORN 1908 AND DIED 1996 NEVER RECEIVED CREDIT FOR IT OTHER THAN SEVERAL REPORTERS FROM HOUSTON DID WRITE STORIES ABOUT IT.

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They were among the main allies that defeated Germany and Japan