what is the importance of the United nations?
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Supposedly to promote peace and wealth throughout the world. http://www.un.org/english/
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United Nations basically is made up of 5 countries only, right? The rest are just bystandsers, who are always ignored by the most powerful 5....
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The U.N. is largely dysfunctional, but it certainly serves a purpose.  We have had a number of successful, multinational military campaigns engaged through the U.N. to ensure peace and security in a number of countries.  The World Court I believe is successful (except for America's lack of participation at a certain level). The General Assembly is a forum for all countries to air out their grievances.\nI think that if the U.N. would be dissolved, what we'd see is more disaffection from small countries (especially Muslim countries) who would believe that the "major" powers would be then completely free to do anything.  In addition, without a collective international voice, the "emerging" superpowers of India, China, perhaps Pakistan, would feel less contstrained from using their large populations, economies, and weapons to become richer and "more respected" on the international stage, and may try to do something like invade a country or hold the EU or the US "for ransom," refusing to trade or threatening (indirect) military action.  So, I think it would make the world less stable, but not change a whole lot.
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The biggest problem the United Nations has is the courage to enforce any of its resolutions or sanctions. The UN stood by and watched 1 million people killed in Rwanda and did absolutely nothing except a few UN soldiers raped and killed innocent people.
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An admirable goal.\n\nThe UN has many agencies that I'm sure would love to take some volunteer hours from you.  The one that comes right to mind is UNICEF.\n\nAlso check out the UN website.  There is probably a link to volunteer missions on there somewhere.\n\nGood luck!\nRXZ
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I can't think of 1 issue where the UN has helped the US.  It always seems that the US has to force the UN to do the right thing.  After all the US human rights commitee is made up of countries like cuba & north korea.  The UN is also composed of many nations that fear freedom and democracy.  Besides, how can a gov't control its people when they have the freedom and self determination?
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United Nations Resolution
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Mainly because the U.N. won't act in a manner in which it said it was supposed to when first chartered.  A few nations take the initiative to be involved when there should be a general agreement on handling these situations by the majority of the nations to be involved
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Well ,it is a good question.I believe that United Nations Security Consul has many obligations,in fact it is crated in order to prevent violations and atrocity and to keep peace and security in the world ,but unfortunately peace and security are not totally prevailed!in the world and we blame always US because it makes more decisions in UNSC. I think others permanent members in the counsel has responsibility too,we blame US, UK for there roll but in fact France china,Russia are also have did less or nothing for peace and security in the world which they should have done !!.and this is a big problem .of course it is right that US keep it,s interests but I believe without US ,there will be more dictators,terrorists,atrocity in the world. If we look the policy among different nations then we can understand that only US policy has significant diplomacy and bring nations to dialog which is in my view undeniable, it is all members responsibility in UNSC in order to functions be more acceptable.
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Kofi Annan is a dweeb.\n\nThe United Nations holds virtually no power or authority, and frankly, they don't really support the USA on any issues (look up the US voting record in the UN, and look up the UN's final decision).  Yet America supplies most of their funding and stuff.\n\nThe concept is good, but the results have been poor, from a US perspective.
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does any respect un diplomatic officers ? why should they
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The U.N. stands for United Nations.\n\nThis is a replacement for The League of Nations which was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The League's goals included disarmament; preventing war through collective security; settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy; and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The old philosophy, growing out of the Congress of Vienna (1815), saw Europe as a shifting map of alliances among nation-states, creating a balance of power maintained by strong armies and secret agreements. Under the new philosophy, the League was a government of governments, with the role of settling disputes between individual nations in an open and legalist forum. The impetus for the founding of the League came from Democratic U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, though the United States never joined the League of Nations.\n\nThe League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were often very reluctant to do. After a number of notable successes and some early failures, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War made it clear that the League had failed in its primary purpose—to avoid any future world war. The United Nations replaced it after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.\n\nThe United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations which was founded in 1919.\n\nAs of 2006 there exist 191 United Nations member states, including virtually all internationally recognised independent nations, except Vatican City (the Holy See) (which has declined membership but is an observer state), Palestine (whose status is still one of a de facto state, and has not yet legally declared statehood), Niue (whose foreign affairs are dealt with by the New Zealand Government) and Taiwan, which has not been internationally recognised as independent or as the Republic of China (whose status as a member state was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1971). Palestine and the Holy See both have Permanent Observer Missions to the UN.\n\nFrom its headquarters in New York City, the UN's member countries and specialised agencies give guidance and decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout each year. The organisation is divided into administrative bodies, including the UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, UN Economic and Social Council, UN Trusteeship Council, UN Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice, as well as counterpart bodies dealing with the governance of all other UN system agencies, such as the WHO and UNICEF. The UN's most visible public figure is the Secretary-General.\n\nThe UN was founded after the end of World War II by the victorious world powers with the hope that it would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible, by fostering an ideal of collective security. The organization's structure still reflects in some ways the circumstances of its founding. For example, the five main victors of World War II are the Security Council permanent members with veto power: The United States of America, the Soviet Union (which was replaced by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, and the Republic of China (later replaced by the People's Republic of China). Writer Alistair Cooke suggested in one of his "Letter from America" radio programmes that Stalin had in fact come up with the idea of the present
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we should respect each other and learn how to communicate in peace, peace is the first purpose of un and we support it by our understanding and respect.
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Yes, UN is outdated and could not survive without the U.S.A. The big fix is that the security council needs to be re-constituted with the following most populous and influential nations in the 21st Century:\n\nUSA\nChina\nRussia\nIndia\nEuropean Union\nIndonesia\nBrazil
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Do you mean UNESCO? United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization?\n\nTheir aim is to build peace in the minds of humanity. More info on their site (link below).
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Complies to United Nations recognised Standard.
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The United Nations doesn't and will most likely never help the world.  It's a wasted organization that needs a lot less talk and a lot more action.