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| | MSN Encarta - United Nations |
 | | The declaration included the first formal use of the term United Nations, a name coined by President Roosevelt. | | | United Nations (UN), international organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. | | | They called the new league the United Nations. |
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| | United Nations. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The name United Nations was coined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 to describe the countries fighting against the Axis. | | | The clear majority of the United States and its allies disappeared as the Afro-Asian group of nations (see Third World) obtained over half of the assembly seats. | | | Temporary agencies have included the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization (whose responsibilities were later assumed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which is still in existence. |
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| | United Nations |
| | In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt, flanked by the leaders of 26 Allied countries, first coined the term "United Nations" to describe the continued fight against the Axis Powers. | | | The United Nations is currently engaged in one of the most important debates in its history: how to reform itself, strengthen itself as an institution, and ensure that it addresses effectively the threats and challenges of the 21st century. | | | Under the UN Charter, the chief administrative officer of the UN and the head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed to a five-year term by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. |
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| | The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945 |
| | All Members of the United Nations are facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. | | | There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. | | | Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected. |
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| | Online NewsHour: United Nations/International |
| | Ray Suarez leads a discussion with Francis Deng, a former Sudanese diplomat who was the representative of the United Nations' secretary general on internally displaced persons, and Salih Booker, director of Africa Action. | | | October 1, 2002 -- Inspecting Iraq For a reaction to Iraq's agreement with the United Nations to readmit weapons inspectors, Margaret Warner speaks with the United Kingdom's ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock. | | | June 20, 2000 -- Human Cargo Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights; David Bachman, chairman of the China studies program at the University of Washington; and Demetrios Papademetriou, co-director of the international migration policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; discuss the causes and implications of smuggling humans. |
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| | United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested the name "United Nations" and the first official use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations. | | | The term "united nations" was coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies. | | | The United Nations headquarters building was constructed in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
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| | NYU Law, Library - Foreign & International, United Nations |
| | Researching the United Nations by Mary Rumsey at the University of Minnesota. | | | As a regional arrangement under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, the OSCE has been established as a primary instrument in its region for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation in Europe. | | | Provides the The United Nations Charter, information on UN organs (document symbols), and main bodies. |
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| | Human Rights Watch: United Nations |
| | Recently, the United Nations General Assembly voted to abolish its discredited Human Rights Commission and replace it with a stronger Human Rights Council. | | | On March 15, in a landmark step toward ensuring that abusive governments are held accountable for human rights violations, the United Nations General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority to create the Human Rights Council, which will replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights. | | | The United States decision not to seek election to the new United Nations Human Rights Council undermines its claims to leadership in promoting human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. |
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| | United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Guide to Delegate Preparation: A Model United Nations Handbook, edited by Scott A. Leslie, The United Nations Association of the United States of America, 2004 edition (October 2004), softcover, 296 pages, ISBN 1880632713 | | | History of the United Nations - UK Government site | | | The United Nations headquarters building was constructed in New York City (the building does not however belong to the United States) in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
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| | United Nations Association- United Kingdom |
| | The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNA-UK) is the leading independent authority on the UN in the UK and a UK-wide grassroots membership organisation. | | | The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a Company limited by Guarantee. | | | United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 3 Whitehall Court, London, SW1A 2EL |
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| | UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN KOSOVO - UNMIK Home |
| | 2 March – The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today urged a higher profile for women in the political life of the UN-administered province. | | | 7 March – Improvement in the lives of minorities in Kosovo must be made immediately, a senior United Nations envoy said today, as a prerequisite to settling the final status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province which the United Nations has run ever since Yugoslav troops were driven out in 1999 amid grave rights abuses. | | | 11 March – Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy to Kosovo today hailed recent progress in the United Nations-administered province and urged continued efforts to foster a multiethnic democracy there. |
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| | The Avalon Project : The United Nations - Documents |
| | 1945 - Proclamation of United Nations Charter and Statute of the International Court of Justice; October 31 | | | 1949 - Amendment of United Nations Participation Act, October 10 | | | 1948 - General Assembly Resolution 186 : Appointment and terms of reference of a United Nations Mediator in Palestine; May 14 |
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| | United Nations Trust Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | United Nations Trust Territories were the successors of the League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946. | | | The one territory not turned over was South West Africa, which South Africa insisted remain under the League of Nations Mandate, and which eventually gained independence in 1990 as Namibia. | | | Tanganyika (United Kingdom) - Became independent in 1961. |
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| | United Nations Day |
| | The name "United Nations" was devised by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of January 1, 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. | | | United Nations Day was established by Presidential Proclamation to commemorate the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. | | | The United Nations officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, United States and by a majority of other signatories. |
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| | The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945 |
| | All Members of the United Nations are facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. | | | There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. | | | Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected. |
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| | United Nations |
| | The United States Senate ratified the United Nations treaty by a vote of 89 to 2 on 28th July, 1945. | | | The other nations vigorously opposed the idea of the veto but it became clear that without such a favoured position the five major nations would not join the United Nations. | | | The conference drafted the United Nations Charter and it was signed on 26th June and ratified at the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in London on 24th October 1945. |
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| | League of Nations - encyclopedia article about League of Nations. |
| | The League, like the modern United Nations, lacked an armed force of its own and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were very reluctant to do. | | | The United States was originally to be the fifth permanent member; however, it never joined the League, as a result of the Republican Party's Congressional election gains in 1918. | | | U.S. President The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. |
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| | United Nations Documents |
| | Letter, dated January 16, 1949, from Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, to President Harry S. Truman, offering to resign, and Truman's February 21, 1949 reply refusing to accept Roosevelt's offer and noting that he was sending to the U.S. Senate for confirmation her renomination as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations. | | | Letter, dated July 15, 1946, from Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman, recommending that the United States vote in favor of admitting Trans-Jordan into the United Nations, and an attached memo detailing the United States State Department's position on the question of admitting Trans-Jordan to the United Nations. | | | Attached is an October 18, 1951 memo from Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman urging him not to comment to the press about either Senate consideration of his appointments to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, or the possibility of recess appoinments to the entire delegation. |
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| | HOUSE RESOLUTION 280 P.N. 3332 |
| | INTRODUCED BY HAGARTY, NAHILL, FOX, WAMBACH, PITTS, COHEN, JOSEPHS, McHALE, FREEMAN, ITKIN, PIEVSKY, SAURMAN, HERSHEY, BUNT, CORNELL, SIRIANNI, MOEHLMANN, WESTON, G. 1 Memorializing the President of the United States and the United 2 Nations General Assembly to declare that Zionism and racism 3 are not equal. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: United Nations |
| | In January 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to use the term "United Nations." Roosevelt helped create the "Declaration by United Nations" during the war when 26 nations pledged to continue fighting the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, Italy and their allies). | | | The United Nations is not a world government and does not make laws. | | | This body co-ordinates the economic and social work of the United Nations and the UN family of organizations. |
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| | United Nations - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about United Nations |
| | The name ‘United Nations’ was coined by US president Franklin D Roosevelt. | | | The United Nations Security Council votes on the question of Angola, 1995; the first UN peacekeeping troops were drafted to Angola in April of that year. | | | General view of the first meeting of the United Nations Security Council. |
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| | Protectorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some agencies of the United States government, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, use the term protectorate to refer to insular areas of the United States such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as were the Philippines. | | | The islands were constituted by the Treaty of Paris in 1815 as the independent 'United States of the Ionian Islands' under British protection. | | | The League of Nations established League of Nations Mandates, similar to protectorates, for "responsible" European powers in various areas of the non-European world. |
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| | United Nations Secretary-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to the United Nations Charter, the Secretary-General is to be appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. | | | The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. | | | However, countries upholding the veto power in the Security Council are nations that most likely will not see a Secretary General coming from their country, thus including China, the USA, France, the UK and Russia. |
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| | United States Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
| | The federal government of the United States is comprised of a Legislative Branch (led by Congress), an Executive Branch (led by the President), and a Judicial Branch (led by the Supreme Court). | | | Later, the United States Constitution was ratified by the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to establish a federal union of sovereign states and the federal government to operate that union. | | | The United States Congress is the biennial meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government. |
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| | League of Nations Mandate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Upon the entry into force of the Charter of the United Nations in late 1945, the mandates of the League of Nations became United Nations Trust Territories, as agreed earlier in Yalta Conference. | | | All the territories subject to League of Nations mandates were previously controlled by states defeated in World War I, principally Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire. | | | League of Nations mandates were territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919. |
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| | Encyclopedia: UN Trusteeship Council |
| | Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. | | | In March 2005, however, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed a sweeping reform of the United Nations, including an expansion of the Security Council. | | | The United Nations Secretariat is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. |
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| | The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945 |
| | All Members of the United Nations are facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. | | | There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. | | | Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected. |
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| | United Nations -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | The name United Nations was coined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 to describe the countries fighting against the Axis. | | | Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to be held in Bangkok, 18-25 April. | | | The clear majority of the United States and its allies disappeared as the Afro-Asian group of nations (see Third World) obtained over half of the assembly seats. |
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| | United Nations Security Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nehru suggested that the United Nations Security Council seat held by Taiwan be offered to Beijing instead. | | | France has explicitly called for a permanent seat in the UN for Germany: "Germany's engagement, its ranking as a great power, its international influence—France would like to see them recognised with a permanent seat on the Security Council", French president Jacques Chirac said in a speech in Berlin in 2000. | | | The decisions of the Council are known as UN Security Council Resolutions. |
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| | United Nations |
| | United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested the name "United Nations" and the first official use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations. | | | The term "united nations" was coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies. | | | The United Nations headquarters building was constructed in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
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