Why United Nations is not united?
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Because it is a totally usless, corrupt organization.
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The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations which was considered by many to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body: it had been formed in response to World War I, on the premise that such wars could be prevented by such an entity, yet had failed to prevent World War II. \n\nThe biggest advantage the United Nations has over the League of Nations is the ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers.\n\nThe term "United Nations" (which term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies.\n\nThe idea for the UN was elaborated in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo and Tehran in 1943. From August to October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain international peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were discussed and debated by governments and citizens worldwide.\n\nOn April 25, 1945, the UN Conference on International Organizations began in San Francisco. In addition to the Governments, a number of non-governmental organizations, including Lions Clubs International, were invited to assist in drafting the charter. The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations two months later on June 26. Poland had not been represented at the conference, but a place had been reserved for it among the original signatories, and it added its name later. The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.\n\nInitially, the body was known as the United Nations Organisation, or UNO. However, by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as \nThe United Nations, or The UN.
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On this list are 243 entities considered to be countries. This corresponds to:\n\n\n\n\n202 sovereign states: \n\n\n191 member states of the United Nations (UN).\n\n1 state with general international recognition but not UN membership, governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer), the Vatican City.\n\n1 newly independent state, recognized by a growing number of UN member states including all permanent members of the Security Council, widely expected to gain UN membership in the near future: Montenegro.\n\n\n9 states lacking general international recognition, none UN members, that customary international law nonetheless defines as states under the Montevideo Convention: \n\n\n1 state, not a UN member since late 1971, recognized by 25 UN member states and currently with de facto international relations with most others, the Republic of China (popularly referred to as Taiwan). \n\n1 state, recognized by 46 UN member states but never admitted to the UN itself, with most of its claimed territory under military occupation, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. \n\n1 state, recognized by 92 UN member states and the Holy See but never admitted to the UN itself, with only partial de facto control over any of its claimed territory exercised through the Palestinian National Authority (a UN permanent observer), the State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories. \n\n\n6 de facto independent states lacking any significant measure of diplomatic recognition from other states: \n\n\n1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by no UN member states except Turkey, Northern Cyprus. \n\n5 de facto independent states, namely Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Pridnestrovie, Somaliland, and South Ossetia, all recognized by no UN member states. \n\n\n36 inhabited dependent territories: \n\n\n3 external territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands). \n\n\n5 (overseas) communities of France:\n\n \n1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledonia). \n\n4 overseas communities (Mayotte, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles). \n\n\n3 dependent territories of New Zealand: \n\n\n2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue). \n\n1 overseas territory (Tokelau). \n\n\n16 dependent territories of the United Kingdom: \n\n\n3 Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man). \n\n13 overseas territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia). \n\n\n5 unincorporated territories of the United States: \n\n\n2 commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico). \n\n2 organized insular territories (Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands). \n\n1 de facto organized insular territory lacking an Organic Act (American Samoa). \n\n\n5 areas of special sovereignty: \n\n\n4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China). \n\n1 UN protectorate inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia under UN interim civilian administration).
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As if \nlol!\nEven though they founded the UN, and they house the UN, they seem incapable of working with the rest of the world at times!
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The United Nations is a very necessary organization on many levels.  Any place that attempts to foster communication between so many diverse member states is necessary.  Their other works like UNICEF, UNDP, UNIFEM etc. do much to improve the living of millions of people around the world.
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WELL UNITED NATION NO MORE A NEUTRAL BODY ...NEITHER UNITED NATION HAVE SO MUCH POWER TO TAKE DECESION...IT IS JUST RUN BY FEW COUNTRIES OR I MUST SAY FEW PEOPLE...SO IT HAS NOTHING DO WITH PROGRESS OF INDIA OR ANYOTHER COUNTRY..SO WE SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC DIPLOMATIC TIES RATHER THAN WASTING TIME TO GET A PERMANENT SEAT IN UNITED NATION
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I have a political science BS and the UN as worthless as they are never sanctioned anyone to invade anywhere.  That would take huevos and authority, neither of which the UN possess.\nSeriously though the UN is only a small step above the League of Nations in that the US participate, kind of.  If we didn't it would financially collapse, have no home or military authority.  Where would they meet?  The Hague,  I don't even think there is a real airport there
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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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Cause the UN are a bunch of Unthinking Numbnuts.
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The reason why the UN is established in the first place is to have a neutral ground where international disputes and issues can be discussed by all the member states.  Therefore, I think that having the UN is better than having each state have their say on international issues using their own ways (wars, etc.)  It was after the second world war that this organization came to be.  Hence, it is an important impartial way of avoiding conflicts worldwide.
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Maybe you should redefine your subject. Diplomacy requires multilateralism. No progress towards consensus occurs without it. Two nations may have apparently very unilateral foreign policies adverse to one another, but the moment they conduct any diplomacy even those policies become multilateral or they will likely make no progress in any negotiations.
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UNO, United Nations Organization
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It is not a matter of the UN so much as it is a matter of the other member states. The rest of the world either cannot or will not "unite" against what much of it sees as an aggressor, America, that ignores its will. This is much like the argument about how much better the world would be if it was ruled by women. It might be, but neither is an inevitability because neither behaves in a way that indicates a true willingness to act. If America is such a male dominated imperialist power, the world should act, not just make pronouncements about how offended it is, and how morally superior, too. As things are now, even if you booted us out of the UN and payed our part in it, you probably would, and perhaps could, still do nothing but negotiate. You might be proud of your restraint, but that will not give you victory.
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There 192 countries... here is a full list.  191 of these countries are part of the united nations, and the 1 country that is seperate is vatican city.\n\nA | Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Angola | Antigua and Barbuda | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | \nB | Bahamas | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Barbados | Belarus | Belize | Belgium | Benin | Bhutan | Bolivia | Botswana | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Brunei | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Burundi | \nC | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Chile | China | China: Hong Kong | China: Macau | China: Taiwan | Colombia | Comoros | Congo | Costa Rica | Côte d'Ivoire | Croatia | Cuba | Cyprus | Czech Republic | \nD | Denmark | Djibouti | Dominica | Dominican Republic | \nE | East Timor | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Estonia | Ethiopia | \nF | Fijii | Finland | France | French Guiana | \nG | Gabon | The Gambia | Gaza Strip | Germany | Georgia | Ghana | Greece | Grenada | Guatemala | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Guyana | \nH | Haiti | Holy See (Vatican City) | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | \nI | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland (Eire) | Ireland (Northern) | Israel | Italy | \nJ | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | \nK | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Korea, North | Korea, South | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | \nL | Laos - | Latvia - | Lebanon - | Lesotho - | Liberia - | Libya - | Lithuania | Luxembourg - | \nM | Macao | Macedonia | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius | Micronesia | Moldova | Monaco | Mongolia | Morocco | Mexico | Mozambique | Myanmar (Burma) | \nN | Namibia (1) | Nauru | Nepal (1) | Netherlands (11+5) | New Zealand (10) | Nicaragua | Niger (1) | Nigeria (1) | Norway (4) | \nO | Oman (1) | \nP | Panama | Peru | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Palau | Poland | Portugal | \nQ | Qatar (1) | \nR | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | \nS | St. Kitts and Nevis - | Saint Lucia - | St. Vincent and the Grenadines - | Samoa (1) | San Marino - | São Tomé and Príncipe - | Saudi Arabia (1) | Senegal (2) | Serbia and Montenegro (2) | Seychelles - | Sierra Leone - | Singapore (4) | Slovakia (2) | Slovenia (2) | Solomon Islands - | Somalia - | South Africa (23) | Spain (3) | Sri Lanka (3) | Sudan (2) | Suriname - | Swaziland (1) | Sweden (10) | Switzerland (10) | Syria - | \nT | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Togo | Thailand | Trinidad and Tobago | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Tuvalu | \nU | Uganda (2) | Ukraine (8) | United Arab Emirates (1) | United Kingdom (72) | United States of America (317) | Uruguay (2) | Uzbekistan (1) | \nV | Venezuela | Vietnam | Vatican City\nW | West Bank (3) | Western Sahara | \nX | \nY | Yemen | Yugoslavia now Serbia & Montenegro | \nZ | Zaire now Congo, Democratic Republic of | Zambia (1) | Zimbabwe (1) |
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No people are in the UN, only countries.  The UN is not mostly European, it consists of virtually every country in the world.   \n\nThere is plenty wrong with the Un -- but calling it a "pansy" organization is a little silly.
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There are presently 191 member States of the United Nations
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The United Nations is weak, indeed. The weakness of the organization stems from the widespread corruption throughout its ranks.\n\nMany of the UN's poorer members (as well as many of its socialist members) view it as an opportunity for wealth redistribution. Take a look at the amount of money contributed by each member nation versus the benefits received by each member nation. I am not saying that helping poorer countries is bad. Indeed, every nation should help out as much as they can. However, help should be voluntary and not forced through the United Nations.\n\nMany top individuals are corrupt, including the Secretary General. If you think the US government is corrupt regarding some of the defense no-bid contracts, you should look up what goes on in the United Nations. Not only are no-bid contracts common, NOBODY can summon the records. When an investigation becomes necessary, it is always conducted by UN members who find no wrongdoing. The company that Kofi Annan's son works for received numerous such contracts.\n\nThese are things that I certainly DO NOT want my tax dollars paying for.\n\nNOTE FOR EMILYROSE: An organization for peace is certainly a worthy goal. But when diplomatic options have failed, the UN has shown in recent history that they have nothing to back up their resolutions. Iraq thumbed its nose at the UN for a decade before something was done - and it wasn't the UN that did it. Countless resolutions regarding the Palestinian state and Israel have been passed (some for and some against each state). Each government laughs them off. Iran is now thumbing its nose at the UN. We'll see what happens. If the United Nations is not willing to go to war to back up the resolutions of the international community, they should disband and all go home because nothing will ever get accomplished. Kind of like what is happening now.