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    <AgencyName>United Nations</AgencyName>
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        <Address>United Nations Office at Geneva: Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland</Address>
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        <Address>United Nations Office at Vienna: Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 500, A-1400, Vienna, Austria</Address>
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        <Address>Washington, DC: U.N. Information Centre, Suite 400, 1775 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20006</Address>
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            <NameColumnValue>Ban Ki-moon</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Rodney Bent</NameColumnValue>
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              <Paragraph>The United Nations is an international organization that was set up in accordance with the Charter drafted by governments represented at the Conference on International Organization meeting at San Francisco. The Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, and came into force on October 24, 1945, when the required number of ratifications and accessions had been made by the signatories. Amendments increasing membership of the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council came into effect on August 31, 1965.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The United Nations now consists of 193 member states, of which 51 are founding members.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The purposes of the United Nations set out in the Charter are to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character and  in promoting respect for human rights; and to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The principal organs of the United Nations are as follows:</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>General Assembly</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>All states that are members of the United Nations are members of the General Assembly. Its functions are to consider and discuss any matter within the scope of the Charter of the United Nations and to make recommendations to the members of the United Nations and other organs. It approves the budget of the organization, the expenses of which are borne by the members as apportioned by the General Assembly.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The General Assembly may call the attention of the Security Council to situations likely to endanger international peace and security, may initiate studies, and may receive and consider reports from other organs of the United Nations. Under the "Uniting for Peace" resolution  adopted by the General Assembly in November 1950, if the Security Council fails to act on an apparent threat to or breach of the peace or act of aggression because of lack of unanimity of its five permanent members, the Assembly itself may take up the matter within 24 hours--in  emergency special session--and recommend collective measures, including, in case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression, use of armed force when necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The General Assembly normally meets in regular annual session from September through December. It also has met in special sessions and emergency special sessions.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Security Council</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Security Council consists of 15 members, of which 5--the People's Republic of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America--are permanent members. The 10  nonpermanent members are elected for 2-year terms by the General Assembly. The primary responsibility of the Security Council is to act on behalf of the members of the United Nations in maintenance of international peace and security. Measures that may be employed by the Security Council are outlined in the Charter.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Security Council, together with the General Assembly, also elects the judges of the International Court of Justice and makes a recommendation to the General Assembly on the appointment of the Secretary-General of the organization.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Security Council first met in London on January 17, 1946, and is so organized as to be able to function continuously.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Economic and Social Council</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>This organ is responsible, under the authority of the General Assembly, for the economic and social programs of the United Nations. Its functions include making or initiating studies, reports, and recommendations on international economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related matters; promoting respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all;  calling international conferences and preparing draft conventions for submission to the General Assembly on matters within its competence; negotiating agreements with the specialized agencies and defining their relationship with the United Nations; coordinating the activities of the  specialized agencies; and consulting with nongovernmental organizations concerned with matters within its competence. The Council consists of 54 members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly for 3-year terms; 18 are elected each year.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Council usually holds two regular sessions a year. It has also held a number of special sessions.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Trusteeship Council was initially established to consist of any member states that administered trust territories, permanent members of the Security Council that did not administer trust territories, and enough other nonadministering countries elected by the General Assembly for 3-year terms to ensure that membership would be equally divided between administering and nonadministering members. Under authority of the General Assembly, the Council considered reports from members administering trust territories, examined petitions from trust territory inhabitants, and provided for  periodic inspection visits to trust territories.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>With the independence of Palau, the last remaining U.N. trust territory, the Trusteeship Council formally suspended operations after nearly half a century. The Council will henceforth meet only on an extraordinary basis, as the need may arise.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>International Court of Justice</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It has its seat at The Hague, the Netherlands. All members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the Court. Nonmembers of the United Nations may become parties to the Statute of the Court on conditions prescribed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security  Council.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases that the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Court consists of 15 judges known as members of the Court. They are elected for 9-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council, voting independently, and may be reelected.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Secretariat consists of a Secretary-General and "such staff as the Organization may require." The Secretary-General, who is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council, is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations. He acts in that capacity for the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council. Under the Charter, the Secretary-General "may bring to the attention of the  Security Council any matter that in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security."</Paragraph>
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