Тема The UN and its role in the modern world ЯПО МГЛУ

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The United Nations Organization came into being on October 24, 1945, a date commemorated every year as UN Day. On that day the Charter of the UN entered into force. The Charter had been drawn up in San Francisco at the UN Conference in the closing days of the 2nd World War, when the representatives of 50 countries resolved to establish an international organization to be known as the UN.
The purposes and principles of the Organization, as set forth in the Charter, are:

• To maintain international peace and security
• To develop friendly relations among nations
• To achieve cooperation in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems, and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
• To be a centre for harmonizing the actions in attaining these common ends

The Member States are sovereign and equal, and the Charter provides that the UN shall not intervene in matters essentially within the jurisdiction of any state except when it is acting to maintain or restore international peace. But the Member States have certain obligations under the Charter....