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Vordoslavia wrote:so, 1 no2 no's1 yes + 1 including me an +1 including Pyhdon4 yes

My goal is 3 more yes,

Socialistic Britain Adreabhal Rica Nardis?

Even if it passes, I won’t abide by it. Just letting you know

Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Mjau

Lkandria wrote:Even if it passes, I won’t abide by it. Just letting you know

It is kind of like the UN of Gaia, you would have too, or:

Sanctions

Trade being blocked

Monitored for any negative actions

you don't have to join, but should probably obey the rules...

Socialistic Britain

Vordoslavia wrote:It is kind of like the UN of Gaia, you would have too, or:

Sanctions

Trade being blocked

Monitored for any negative actions

you don't have to join, but should probably obey the rules...

No

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Adreabhal

what the hell is going on here?

Socialistic Britain, New United Common-Lands, Mjau

Lastio wrote:what the hell is going on here?

Roleplay

Vordoslavia wrote:Bill idea, give thoughts

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1954348

do not mess with the gods.

Based.

America The Greater, Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Vordoslavia, Mjau, Lastio

It’s an RP bill so - it’s not for parliament more for IC discussions

Socialistic Britain, Lawid, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Mjau, Lastio

New United Common-Lands wrote:do not mess with the gods.

Based.

pretty good i must say

New United Common-Lands, Lawid, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Vordoslavia, Mjau

Lkandria wrote:Even if it passes, I won’t abide by it. Just letting you know

Yeah same

Lastio wrote:pretty good i must say

5 yes

and NUCL, IG

so 1 more yes

6 total, need 1 more, Sozialistisches Paradies?

Vordoslavia wrote:5 yes

and NUCL, IG

so 1 more yes

6 total, need 1 more, Sozialistisches Paradies?

wait he telegramed me

ITS A YEA!

Vordoslavia wrote:wait he telegramed me

ITS A YEA!

I'm gonna eat the sun

Socialistic Britain, Vordoslavia

Sicario Mercenary Corps wrote:I'm gonna eat the sun

Tis a dark day…for them

Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Mjau

Sicario Mercenary Corps wrote:I'm gonna eat the sun

Jamies got a gun.

Sicario Mercenary Corps

Chemireland wrote:how do i restore a D E A D nation with a forgotten email and password

What nation were you to ask such a question anyway?

(curious)

Mjau

The Washington Federation wrote:What nation were you to ask such a question anyway?

(curious)

a nation i made in a school a year ago with the unsupervised teacher permission

Vordoslavia wrote:so, 1 no2 no's1 yes + 1 including me an +1 including Pyhdon4 yes

My goal is 3 more yes,

Socialistic Britain Adreabhal Rica Nardis?

Sorry I hade to leave IBSO I was being smoked.

Vordoslavia

Pyhdon wrote:Sorry I hade to leave IBSO I was being smoked.

u gud, a new thing started anyways,

I see all...

Personne n'échappe à mon regard

Vordoslavia wrote:u gud, a new thing started anyways,

I see all...

Personne n'échappe à mon regard

Tu regarde moi? Oh, Je veux dire ton... ton... TON ESPIONAGÉ

Pyhdon wrote:Tu regarde moi?

Non, mon ami, donne-moi une minute,

J'ai quelque chose de grand prévu...

Vordoslavia wrote:Non, mon ami, donne-moi une minute,

J'ai quelque chose de grand prévu...

Prevu pourquoi?

Pourquoi tu prévu chose?

Tu à util le traduction Google?

My economy is worth $2.69x10[sup]21[/sup]!

all Soda Pop cans cost 1·, all Meats cost 1¢, all Jewellery cost around 1.66◊, all houses cost 1√, and one piece of a city costs 1µ.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=pyhdon/detail=factbook/id=1954367

Here is 100,000µ, Vordoslavia

Kaidia

I am joining that thing replacing IBSO, as Chairman of the SAPP

Kaidia

First things first ima say all the words inside ma head Im fired up and tired of the way that things 'ave been... [/I]

I will sanction illegality obvs

Kaidia

Yawwwnnnnnnnnñawnnnn

Kaidia

Pyhi ouvrent!

Kaidia

The National Department of Logistics ):

Kaidia

Pyhdon wrote:Prevu pourquoi?

Pyhdon wrote:Pourquoi tu prévu chose?

Pyhdon wrote:Tu à util le traduction Google?

Pas de Google, mais un nouveau groupe d'alliance

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:Pas de Google, mais un nouveau groupe d'alliance

Please may you both speak in english to avoid confusion. Thanks.

America The Greater, Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:Bill idea, give thoughts

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1954348

It’s a good idea

And while I would vote for it, following my nation it’s a no

Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Oh well it exists

Not like I’m joining

Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Adreabhal, Vordoslavia

Lemona wrote:Oh well it exists

Not like I’m joining

though you still have to follow its laws, we have over 7 members now so

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:though you still have to follow its laws, we have over 7 members now so

says who

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Vordoslavia

Lemona wrote:says who

The UN of Gaia says so, might change the geneva convention too...

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:The UN of Gaia says so, might change the geneva convention too...

But I’m not in it

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Lemona wrote:But I’m not in it

it doesn't matter, you still have to if we tell you too

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:it doesn't matter, you still have to if we tell you too

no

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Vordoslavia

Vordoslavia wrote:yes

says who

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Vordoslavia

Someone be breaking WA rules it seems uhhh

Socialistic Britain, Lawid, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Lemona wrote:says who

[spoiler]Surprise!

The UN exists, STUDY UP BOY

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.[2] It is the world's largest international organization.[3] The UN is headquartered in New York City (in the United States, but with certain extraterritorial privileges), and the organization has other offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, where the International Court of Justice is headquartered.

The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars, and succeeded the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective.[4] On 25 April 1945, 50 nations met in San Francisco, California for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945. The charter took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. The organization's objectives, as defined by its charter, include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law.[5] At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; as of 2023, it has 193 – almost all of the world's sovereign states.[6]

The organization's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades due in part to Cold War tensions that existed between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies. Its mission has included the provision of primarily unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops charged with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.[7] UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization in the 1960s. Since then, 80 former colonies have gained independence, including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council.[8] By the 1970s, the UN's budget for economic and social development programmes vastly exceeded its spending on peacekeeping. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the UN shifted and expanded its field operations, undertaking a wide variety of complex tasks.[9]

The UN has six principal operational organizations: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the UN Secretariat, and the Trusteeship Council, although the Trusteeship Council has been inactive since 1994. The UN System includes a multitude of specialized agencies, funds, and programmes, including the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF. Additionally, non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and other agencies.

The UN's chief administrative officer is the secretary-general, currently Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres, who began his first five year-term on 1 January 2017 and was re-elected on 8 June 2021. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

The UN, its officers, and its agencies have won many Nobel Peace Prizes, though other evaluations of its effectiveness have been mixed. Some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called it ineffective, biased, and corrupt.

Background (pre-1941)

In the century prior to the UN's creation, several international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross were formed to ensure protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and strife.[10]

During World War I, several major leaders, especially American President Woodrow Wilson, advocated for a world body to guarantee peace. The winners of the war, the Allies, met to decide on formal peace terms at the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was approved, and started operations, but the United States never joined. On 10 January 1920, the League of Nations formally came into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, took effect.[11] The League Council acted as an executive body directing the Assembly's business. It began with four permanent members—the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan.

After some limited successes and failures during the 1920s, the League proved ineffective in the 1930s, as it failed to act against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1933. Forty nations voted for Japan to withdraw from Manchuria but Japan voted against it and walked out of the League instead of withdrawing from Manchuria.[12] It also failed to act against the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when calls for economic sanctions against Italy failed. Italy and other nations left the League.

When war broke out in 1939, the League closed down.[13]

Declarations by the Allies of World War II (1941–1944)

1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

The first step towards the establishment of the United Nations was the Inter-Allied Conference that led to the Declaration of St James's Palace on 12 June 1941.[14][15] By August 1941, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had drafted the Atlantic Charter; which defined goals for the post-war world. At the subsequent meeting of the Inter-Allied Council in London on 24 September 1941, the eight governments in exile of countries under Axis occupation, together with the Soviet Union and representatives of the Free French Forces, unanimously adopted adherence to the common principles of policy set forth by Britain and the United States.[16][17]

Roosevelt and Churchill met at the White House in December 1941 for the Arcadia Conference. Roosevelt, considered a founder of the UN,[18][19] coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries. Churchill accepted it, noting its use by Lord Byron.[20][21] The text of the Declaration by United Nations was drafted on 29 December 1941, by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harry Hopkins. It incorporated Soviet suggestions but included no role for France. One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, which Stalin approved after Roosevelt insisted.[22][23]

Roosevelt's idea of the "Four Powers", referring to the four major Allied countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China, emerged in the Declaration by the United Nations.[24] On New Year's Day 1942, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Soviet Union's former Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and the Chinese Premier T. V. Soong signed the "Declaration by United Nations",[25] and the next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures. During the war, the United Nations became the official term for the Allies. In order to join, countries had to sign the Declaration and declare war on the Axis powers.[26]

The October 1943 Moscow Conference resulted in the Moscow Declarations, including the Four Power Declaration on General Security which aimed for the creation "at the earliest possible date of a general international organization". This was the first public announcement that a new international organization was being contemplated to replace the League of Nations. The Tehran Conference followed shortly afterwards at which Roosevelt, Churchill and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, met and discussed the idea of a post-war international organization.

The new international organisation was formulated and negotiated amongst the delegations from the Allied Big Four at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference from 21 September to 7 October 1944. They agreed on proposals for the aims, structure and functioning of the new organization.[27][28][29] It took the conference at Yalta in February 1945, and further negotiations with Moscow, before all the issues were resolved.[30]

Founding (1945)

The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue

By 1 March 1945, 21 additional states had signed the Declaration by the United Nations.[31] After months of planning, the UN Conference on International Organization opened in San Francisco on 25 April 1945. It was attended by 50 nation's governments and a number of non-governmental organizations.[32][33][34] The delegations of the Big Four chaired the plenary meetings.[35] Churchill urged Roosevelt to restore France to its status of a major power after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The drafting of the Charter of the United Nations was completed over the following two months, and it was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries.[36][37] The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union and China — and by a majority of the other 46 nations.[38]

The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented,[a] and the Security Council took place in London beginning in January 1946.[38] Debates began at once, covering topical issues such as the presence of Russian troops in Iranian Azerbaijan and British forces in Greece.[41] British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb served as interim secretary-general.

The General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN. Construction began on 14 September 1948 and the facility was completed on 9 October 1952. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN secretary-general (Jebb was only in the position until a permanent secretary-general was elected).[38]

Cold War (1947–1991)

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until he died in 1961.

Though the UN's primary mandate was peacekeeping, the division between the United States and the Soviet Union often paralysed the organization; generally allowing it to intervene only in conflicts distant from the Cold War.[42] Two notable exceptions were a Security Council resolution on 7 July 1950 authorizing a US-led coalition to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea, passed in the absence of the Soviet Union,[38][43] and the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953.[44]

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine, approving the creation of Israel.[45] Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict.[46] On 7 November 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis;[47] however, the UN was unable to intervene against the Soviet Union's simultaneous invasion of Hungary, following the country's revolution.[48]

On 14 July 1960, the UN established the United Nations Operation in the Congo (or UNOC), the largest military force of its early decades, to bring order to Katanga, restoring it to the control of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 11 May 1964.[49] While travelling to meet rebel leader Moise Tshombe during the conflict, Dag Hammarskjöld, often named as one of the UN's most effective secretary-generals,[50] died in a plane crash. Months later he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[51] In 1964, Hammarskjöld's successor, U Thant, deployed the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which would become one of the UN's longest-running peacekeeping missions.[52]

With the spread of decolonization in the 1960s, the organization's membership shot up due to an influx of newly independent nations. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa.[47] On 25 October 1971, with opposition from the United States, but with the support of many Third World nations, the People's Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan). The vote was widely seen as a sign of waning American influence in the organization.[53] Third World nations organized themselves into the Group of 77 under the leadership of Algeria, which briefly became a dominant power at the UN.[54] On 10 November 1975, a bloc comprising the Soviet Union and Third World nations passed a resolution, over strenuous American and Israeli opposition, declaring Zionism to be racism. The resolution was repealed on 16 December 1991, shortly after the end of the Cold War.[55][56]

With an increasing Third World presence and the failure of UN mediation in conflicts in the Middle East, Vietnam, and Kashmir, the UN increasingly shifted its attention to its secondary goals of economic development and cultural exchange.[57] By the 1970s, the UN budget for social and economic development was far greater than its peacekeeping budget.

Post-Cold War (1991–present)

Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007

After the Cold War, the UN saw a radical expansion in its peacekeeping duties, taking on more missions in five years than it had in the previous four decades.[58] Between 1988 and 2000, the number of adopted Security Council resolutions more than doubled, and the peacekeeping budget increased by more than tenfold.[59][60][61] The UN negotiated an end to the Salvadoran Civil War, launched a successful peacekeeping mission in Namibia, and oversaw democratic elections in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.[62] In 1991, the UN authorized a US-led coalition that repulsed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.[63] Brian Urquhart, the under-secretary-general of the UN from 1971 to 1985, later described the hopes raised by these successes as a "false renaissance" for the organization, given the more troubled missions that followed.[64]

Beginning in the last decades of the Cold War, critics of the UN condemned the organization for perceived mismanagement and corruption.[65] In 1984, American President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States' funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (or UNESCO) over allegations of mismanagement, followed by the United Kingdom and Singapore.[66][67] Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the secretary-general from 1992 to 1996, initiated a reform of the Secretariat, somewhat reducing the size of the organisation.[68][69] His successor, Kofi Annan, initiated further management reforms in the face of threats from the US to withhold its UN dues.[69]

Though the UN Charter had been written primarily to prevent aggression by one nation against another, in the early 1990s the UN faced several simultaneous, serious crises within Somalia, Haiti, Mozambique, and the nations that previously made up Yugoslavia.[70] The UN mission in Somalia was widely viewed as a failure after the United States' withdrawal following casualties in the Battle of Mogadishu. The UN mission to Bosnia faced worldwide ridicule for its indecisive and confused mission in the face of ethnic cleansing.[71] In 1994, the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda failed to intervene in the Rwandan genocide amidst indecision in the Security Council.[72]

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, international interventions authorized by the UN took a wider variety of forms. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 authorised the NATO-led Kosovo Force beginning in 1999. The UN mission in the Sierra Leone Civil War was supplemented by a British military intervention. The invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was overseen by NATO.[73] In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq despite failing to pass a UN Security Council resolution for authorization, prompting a new round of questioning of the organization's effectiveness.[74]

Under the eighth secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, the UN intervened with peacekeepers in crises such as the War in Darfur in Sudan and the Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sent observers and chemical weapons inspectors to the Syrian Civil War.[75] In 2013, an internal review of UN actions in the final battles of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009 concluded that the organization had suffered a "systemic failure".[76] In 2010, the organization suffered the worst loss of life in its history, when 101 personnel died in the Haiti earthquake.[77] Acting under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011, NATO countries intervened in the First Libyan Civil War.

The Millennium Summit was held in 2000 to discuss the UN's role in the 21st century.[78] The three-day meeting was the largest gathering of world leaders in history, and it culminated in the adoption by all member states of the Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs), a commitment to achieve international development in areas such as poverty reduction, gender equality and public health. Progress towards these goals, which were to be met by 2015, was ultimately uneven. The 2005 World Summit reaffirmed the UN's focus on promoting development, peacekeeping, human rights and global security.[79] The Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs) were launched in 2015 to succeed the Millennium Development Goals.[80]

In addition to addressing global challenges, the UN has sought to improve its accountability and democratic legitimacy by engaging more with civil society and fostering a global constituency.[81] In an effort to enhance transparency, in 2016 the organization held its first public debate between candidates for secretary-general.[82] On 1 January 2017, Portuguese diplomat António Guterres, who had previously served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, became the ninth secretary-general. Guterres has highlighted several key goals for his administration, including an emphasis on diplomacy for preventing conflicts, more effective peacekeeping efforts, and streamlining the organization to be more responsive and versatile to international needs.[83]

On 13 June 2019, the UN signed a Strategic Partnership Framework with the World Economic Forum in order to "jointly accelerate" the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[84][/spoiler]

TIME TO STUDY!!!

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:[spoiler]Surprise!

The UN exists, STUDY UP BOY

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.[2] It is the world's largest international organization.[3] The UN is headquartered in New York City (in the United States, but with certain extraterritorial privileges), and the organization has other offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, where the International Court of Justice is headquartered.

The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars, and succeeded the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective.[4] On 25 April 1945, 50 nations met in San Francisco, California for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945. The charter took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. The organization's objectives, as defined by its charter, include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law.[5] At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; as of 2023, it has 193 – almost all of the world's sovereign states.[6]

The organization's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades due in part to Cold War tensions that existed between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies. Its mission has included the provision of primarily unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops charged with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.[7] UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization in the 1960s. Since then, 80 former colonies have gained independence, including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council.[8] By the 1970s, the UN's budget for economic and social development programmes vastly exceeded its spending on peacekeeping. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the UN shifted and expanded its field operations, undertaking a wide variety of complex tasks.[9]

The UN has six principal operational organizations: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the UN Secretariat, and the Trusteeship Council, although the Trusteeship Council has been inactive since 1994. The UN System includes a multitude of specialized agencies, funds, and programmes, including the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF. Additionally, non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and other agencies.

The UN's chief administrative officer is the secretary-general, currently Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres, who began his first five year-term on 1 January 2017 and was re-elected on 8 June 2021. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

The UN, its officers, and its agencies have won many Nobel Peace Prizes, though other evaluations of its effectiveness have been mixed. Some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called it ineffective, biased, and corrupt.

Background (pre-1941)

In the century prior to the UN's creation, several international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross were formed to ensure protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and strife.[10]

During World War I, several major leaders, especially American President Woodrow Wilson, advocated for a world body to guarantee peace. The winners of the war, the Allies, met to decide on formal peace terms at the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was approved, and started operations, but the United States never joined. On 10 January 1920, the League of Nations formally came into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, took effect.[11] The League Council acted as an executive body directing the Assembly's business. It began with four permanent members—the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan.

After some limited successes and failures during the 1920s, the League proved ineffective in the 1930s, as it failed to act against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1933. Forty nations voted for Japan to withdraw from Manchuria but Japan voted against it and walked out of the League instead of withdrawing from Manchuria.[12] It also failed to act against the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when calls for economic sanctions against Italy failed. Italy and other nations left the League.

When war broke out in 1939, the League closed down.[13]

Declarations by the Allies of World War II (1941–1944)

1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

The first step towards the establishment of the United Nations was the Inter-Allied Conference that led to the Declaration of St James's Palace on 12 June 1941.[14][15] By August 1941, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had drafted the Atlantic Charter; which defined goals for the post-war world. At the subsequent meeting of the Inter-Allied Council in London on 24 September 1941, the eight governments in exile of countries under Axis occupation, together with the Soviet Union and representatives of the Free French Forces, unanimously adopted adherence to the common principles of policy set forth by Britain and the United States.[16][17]

Roosevelt and Churchill met at the White House in December 1941 for the Arcadia Conference. Roosevelt, considered a founder of the UN,[18][19] coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries. Churchill accepted it, noting its use by Lord Byron.[20][21] The text of the Declaration by United Nations was drafted on 29 December 1941, by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harry Hopkins. It incorporated Soviet suggestions but included no role for France. One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, which Stalin approved after Roosevelt insisted.[22][23]

Roosevelt's idea of the "Four Powers", referring to the four major Allied countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China, emerged in the Declaration by the United Nations.[24] On New Year's Day 1942, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Soviet Union's former Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and the Chinese Premier T. V. Soong signed the "Declaration by United Nations",[25] and the next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures. During the war, the United Nations became the official term for the Allies. In order to join, countries had to sign the Declaration and declare war on the Axis powers.[26]

The October 1943 Moscow Conference resulted in the Moscow Declarations, including the Four Power Declaration on General Security which aimed for the creation "at the earliest possible date of a general international organization". This was the first public announcement that a new international organization was being contemplated to replace the League of Nations. The Tehran Conference followed shortly afterwards at which Roosevelt, Churchill and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, met and discussed the idea of a post-war international organization.

The new international organisation was formulated and negotiated amongst the delegations from the Allied Big Four at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference from 21 September to 7 October 1944. They agreed on proposals for the aims, structure and functioning of the new organization.[27][28][29] It took the conference at Yalta in February 1945, and further negotiations with Moscow, before all the issues were resolved.[30]

Founding (1945)

The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue

By 1 March 1945, 21 additional states had signed the Declaration by the United Nations.[31] After months of planning, the UN Conference on International Organization opened in San Francisco on 25 April 1945. It was attended by 50 nation's governments and a number of non-governmental organizations.[32][33][34] The delegations of the Big Four chaired the plenary meetings.[35] Churchill urged Roosevelt to restore France to its status of a major power after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The drafting of the Charter of the United Nations was completed over the following two months, and it was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries.[36][37] The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union and China — and by a majority of the other 46 nations.[38]

The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented,[a] and the Security Council took place in London beginning in January 1946.[38] Debates began at once, covering topical issues such as the presence of Russian troops in Iranian Azerbaijan and British forces in Greece.[41] British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb served as interim secretary-general.

The General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN. Construction began on 14 September 1948 and the facility was completed on 9 October 1952. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN secretary-general (Jebb was only in the position until a permanent secretary-general was elected).[38]

Cold War (1947–1991)

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until he died in 1961.

Though the UN's primary mandate was peacekeeping, the division between the United States and the Soviet Union often paralysed the organization; generally allowing it to intervene only in conflicts distant from the Cold War.[42] Two notable exceptions were a Security Council resolution on 7 July 1950 authorizing a US-led coalition to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea, passed in the absence of the Soviet Union,[38][43] and the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953.[44]

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine, approving the creation of Israel.[45] Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict.[46] On 7 November 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis;[47] however, the UN was unable to intervene against the Soviet Union's simultaneous invasion of Hungary, following the country's revolution.[48]

On 14 July 1960, the UN established the United Nations Operation in the Congo (or UNOC), the largest military force of its early decades, to bring order to Katanga, restoring it to the control of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 11 May 1964.[49] While travelling to meet rebel leader Moise Tshombe during the conflict, Dag Hammarskjöld, often named as one of the UN's most effective secretary-generals,[50] died in a plane crash. Months later he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[51] In 1964, Hammarskjöld's successor, U Thant, deployed the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which would become one of the UN's longest-running peacekeeping missions.[52]

With the spread of decolonization in the 1960s, the organization's membership shot up due to an influx of newly independent nations. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa.[47] On 25 October 1971, with opposition from the United States, but with the support of many Third World nations, the People's Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan). The vote was widely seen as a sign of waning American influence in the organization.[53] Third World nations organized themselves into the Group of 77 under the leadership of Algeria, which briefly became a dominant power at the UN.[54] On 10 November 1975, a bloc comprising the Soviet Union and Third World nations passed a resolution, over strenuous American and Israeli opposition, declaring Zionism to be racism. The resolution was repealed on 16 December 1991, shortly after the end of the Cold War.[55][56]

With an increasing Third World presence and the failure of UN mediation in conflicts in the Middle East, Vietnam, and Kashmir, the UN increasingly shifted its attention to its secondary goals of economic development and cultural exchange.[57] By the 1970s, the UN budget for social and economic development was far greater than its peacekeeping budget.

Post-Cold War (1991–present)

Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007

After the Cold War, the UN saw a radical expansion in its peacekeeping duties, taking on more missions in five years than it had in the previous four decades.[58] Between 1988 and 2000, the number of adopted Security Council resolutions more than doubled, and the peacekeeping budget increased by more than tenfold.[59][60][61] The UN negotiated an end to the Salvadoran Civil War, launched a successful peacekeeping mission in Namibia, and oversaw democratic elections in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.[62] In 1991, the UN authorized a US-led coalition that repulsed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.[63] Brian Urquhart, the under-secretary-general of the UN from 1971 to 1985, later described the hopes raised by these successes as a "false renaissance" for the organization, given the more troubled missions that followed.[64]

Beginning in the last decades of the Cold War, critics of the UN condemned the organization for perceived mismanagement and corruption.[65] In 1984, American President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States' funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (or UNESCO) over allegations of mismanagement, followed by the United Kingdom and Singapore.[66][67] Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the secretary-general from 1992 to 1996, initiated a reform of the Secretariat, somewhat reducing the size of the organisation.[68][69] His successor, Kofi Annan, initiated further management reforms in the face of threats from the US to withhold its UN dues.[69]

Though the UN Charter had been written primarily to prevent aggression by one nation against another, in the early 1990s the UN faced several simultaneous, serious crises within Somalia, Haiti, Mozambique, and the nations that previously made up Yugoslavia.[70] The UN mission in Somalia was widely viewed as a failure after the United States' withdrawal following casualties in the Battle of Mogadishu. The UN mission to Bosnia faced worldwide ridicule for its indecisive and confused mission in the face of ethnic cleansing.[71] In 1994, the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda failed to intervene in the Rwandan genocide amidst indecision in the Security Council.[72]

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, international interventions authorized by the UN took a wider variety of forms. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 authorised the NATO-led Kosovo Force beginning in 1999. The UN mission in the Sierra Leone Civil War was supplemented by a British military intervention. The invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was overseen by NATO.[73] In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq despite failing to pass a UN Security Council resolution for authorization, prompting a new round of questioning of the organization's effectiveness.[74]

Under the eighth secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, the UN intervened with peacekeepers in crises such as the War in Darfur in Sudan and the Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sent observers and chemical weapons inspectors to the Syrian Civil War.[75] In 2013, an internal review of UN actions in the final battles of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009 concluded that the organization had suffered a "systemic failure".[76] In 2010, the organization suffered the worst loss of life in its history, when 101 personnel died in the Haiti earthquake.[77] Acting under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011, NATO countries intervened in the First Libyan Civil War.

The Millennium Summit was held in 2000 to discuss the UN's role in the 21st century.[78] The three-day meeting was the largest gathering of world leaders in history, and it culminated in the adoption by all member states of the Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs), a commitment to achieve international development in areas such as poverty reduction, gender equality and public health. Progress towards these goals, which were to be met by 2015, was ultimately uneven. The 2005 World Summit reaffirmed the UN's focus on promoting development, peacekeeping, human rights and global security.[79] The Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs) were launched in 2015 to succeed the Millennium Development Goals.[80]

In addition to addressing global challenges, the UN has sought to improve its accountability and democratic legitimacy by engaging more with civil society and fostering a global constituency.[81] In an effort to enhance transparency, in 2016 the organization held its first public debate between candidates for secretary-general.[82] On 1 January 2017, Portuguese diplomat António Guterres, who had previously served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, became the ninth secretary-general. Guterres has highlighted several key goals for his administration, including an emphasis on diplomacy for preventing conflicts, more effective peacekeeping efforts, and streamlining the organization to be more responsive and versatile to international needs.[83]

On 13 June 2019, the UN signed a Strategic Partnership Framework with the World Economic Forum in order to "jointly accelerate" the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[84][/spoiler]

TIME TO STUDY!!!

But if I’m not in it

I don’t have to follow its laws

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Adreabhal

Vordoslavia wrote:it doesn't matter, you still have to if we tell you too

That’s not how it works

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:[spoiler]Surprise!

The UN exists, STUDY UP BOY

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.[2] It is the world's largest international organization.[3] The UN is headquartered in New York City (in the United States, but with certain extraterritorial privileges), and the organization has other offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, where the International Court of Justice is headquartered.

The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars, and succeeded the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective.[4] On 25 April 1945, 50 nations met in San Francisco, California for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945. The charter took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. The organization's objectives, as defined by its charter, include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law.[5] At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; as of 2023, it has 193 – almost all of the world's sovereign states.[6]

The organization's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades due in part to Cold War tensions that existed between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies. Its mission has included the provision of primarily unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops charged with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.[7] UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization in the 1960s. Since then, 80 former colonies have gained independence, including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council.[8] By the 1970s, the UN's budget for economic and social development programmes vastly exceeded its spending on peacekeeping. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the UN shifted and expanded its field operations, undertaking a wide variety of complex tasks.[9]

The UN has six principal operational organizations: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the UN Secretariat, and the Trusteeship Council, although the Trusteeship Council has been inactive since 1994. The UN System includes a multitude of specialized agencies, funds, and programmes, including the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF. Additionally, non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and other agencies.

The UN's chief administrative officer is the secretary-general, currently Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres, who began his first five year-term on 1 January 2017 and was re-elected on 8 June 2021. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

The UN, its officers, and its agencies have won many Nobel Peace Prizes, though other evaluations of its effectiveness have been mixed. Some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called it ineffective, biased, and corrupt.

Background (pre-1941)

In the century prior to the UN's creation, several international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross were formed to ensure protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and strife.[10]

During World War I, several major leaders, especially American President Woodrow Wilson, advocated for a world body to guarantee peace. The winners of the war, the Allies, met to decide on formal peace terms at the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was approved, and started operations, but the United States never joined. On 10 January 1920, the League of Nations formally came into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, took effect.[11] The League Council acted as an executive body directing the Assembly's business. It began with four permanent members—the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan.

After some limited successes and failures during the 1920s, the League proved ineffective in the 1930s, as it failed to act against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1933. Forty nations voted for Japan to withdraw from Manchuria but Japan voted against it and walked out of the League instead of withdrawing from Manchuria.[12] It also failed to act against the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when calls for economic sanctions against Italy failed. Italy and other nations left the League.

When war broke out in 1939, the League closed down.[13]

Declarations by the Allies of World War II (1941–1944)

1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

The first step towards the establishment of the United Nations was the Inter-Allied Conference that led to the Declaration of St James's Palace on 12 June 1941.[14][15] By August 1941, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had drafted the Atlantic Charter; which defined goals for the post-war world. At the subsequent meeting of the Inter-Allied Council in London on 24 September 1941, the eight governments in exile of countries under Axis occupation, together with the Soviet Union and representatives of the Free French Forces, unanimously adopted adherence to the common principles of policy set forth by Britain and the United States.[16][17]

Roosevelt and Churchill met at the White House in December 1941 for the Arcadia Conference. Roosevelt, considered a founder of the UN,[18][19] coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries. Churchill accepted it, noting its use by Lord Byron.[20][21] The text of the Declaration by United Nations was drafted on 29 December 1941, by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harry Hopkins. It incorporated Soviet suggestions but included no role for France. One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, which Stalin approved after Roosevelt insisted.[22][23]

Roosevelt's idea of the "Four Powers", referring to the four major Allied countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China, emerged in the Declaration by the United Nations.[24] On New Year's Day 1942, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Soviet Union's former Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and the Chinese Premier T. V. Soong signed the "Declaration by United Nations",[25] and the next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures. During the war, the United Nations became the official term for the Allies. In order to join, countries had to sign the Declaration and declare war on the Axis powers.[26]

The October 1943 Moscow Conference resulted in the Moscow Declarations, including the Four Power Declaration on General Security which aimed for the creation "at the earliest possible date of a general international organization". This was the first public announcement that a new international organization was being contemplated to replace the League of Nations. The Tehran Conference followed shortly afterwards at which Roosevelt, Churchill and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, met and discussed the idea of a post-war international organization.

The new international organisation was formulated and negotiated amongst the delegations from the Allied Big Four at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference from 21 September to 7 October 1944. They agreed on proposals for the aims, structure and functioning of the new organization.[27][28][29] It took the conference at Yalta in February 1945, and further negotiations with Moscow, before all the issues were resolved.[30]

Founding (1945)

The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue

By 1 March 1945, 21 additional states had signed the Declaration by the United Nations.[31] After months of planning, the UN Conference on International Organization opened in San Francisco on 25 April 1945. It was attended by 50 nation's governments and a number of non-governmental organizations.[32][33][34] The delegations of the Big Four chaired the plenary meetings.[35] Churchill urged Roosevelt to restore France to its status of a major power after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The drafting of the Charter of the United Nations was completed over the following two months, and it was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries.[36][37] The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union and China — and by a majority of the other 46 nations.[38]

The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented,[a] and the Security Council took place in London beginning in January 1946.[38] Debates began at once, covering topical issues such as the presence of Russian troops in Iranian Azerbaijan and British forces in Greece.[41] British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb served as interim secretary-general.

The General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN. Construction began on 14 September 1948 and the facility was completed on 9 October 1952. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN secretary-general (Jebb was only in the position until a permanent secretary-general was elected).[38]

Cold War (1947–1991)

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until he died in 1961.

Though the UN's primary mandate was peacekeeping, the division between the United States and the Soviet Union often paralysed the organization; generally allowing it to intervene only in conflicts distant from the Cold War.[42] Two notable exceptions were a Security Council resolution on 7 July 1950 authorizing a US-led coalition to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea, passed in the absence of the Soviet Union,[38][43] and the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953.[44]

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine, approving the creation of Israel.[45] Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict.[46] On 7 November 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis;[47] however, the UN was unable to intervene against the Soviet Union's simultaneous invasion of Hungary, following the country's revolution.[48]

On 14 July 1960, the UN established the United Nations Operation in the Congo (or UNOC), the largest military force of its early decades, to bring order to Katanga, restoring it to the control of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 11 May 1964.[49] While travelling to meet rebel leader Moise Tshombe during the conflict, Dag Hammarskjöld, often named as one of the UN's most effective secretary-generals,[50] died in a plane crash. Months later he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[51] In 1964, Hammarskjöld's successor, U Thant, deployed the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which would become one of the UN's longest-running peacekeeping missions.[52]

With the spread of decolonization in the 1960s, the organization's membership shot up due to an influx of newly independent nations. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa.[47] On 25 October 1971, with opposition from the United States, but with the support of many Third World nations, the People's Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan). The vote was widely seen as a sign of waning American influence in the organization.[53] Third World nations organized themselves into the Group of 77 under the leadership of Algeria, which briefly became a dominant power at the UN.[54] On 10 November 1975, a bloc comprising the Soviet Union and Third World nations passed a resolution, over strenuous American and Israeli opposition, declaring Zionism to be racism. The resolution was repealed on 16 December 1991, shortly after the end of the Cold War.[55][56]

With an increasing Third World presence and the failure of UN mediation in conflicts in the Middle East, Vietnam, and Kashmir, the UN increasingly shifted its attention to its secondary goals of economic development and cultural exchange.[57] By the 1970s, the UN budget for social and economic development was far greater than its peacekeeping budget.

Post-Cold War (1991–present)

Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007

After the Cold War, the UN saw a radical expansion in its peacekeeping duties, taking on more missions in five years than it had in the previous four decades.[58] Between 1988 and 2000, the number of adopted Security Council resolutions more than doubled, and the peacekeeping budget increased by more than tenfold.[59][60][61] The UN negotiated an end to the Salvadoran Civil War, launched a successful peacekeeping mission in Namibia, and oversaw democratic elections in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.[62] In 1991, the UN authorized a US-led coalition that repulsed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.[63] Brian Urquhart, the under-secretary-general of the UN from 1971 to 1985, later described the hopes raised by these successes as a "false renaissance" for the organization, given the more troubled missions that followed.[64]

Beginning in the last decades of the Cold War, critics of the UN condemned the organization for perceived mismanagement and corruption.[65] In 1984, American President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States' funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (or UNESCO) over allegations of mismanagement, followed by the United Kingdom and Singapore.[66][67] Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the secretary-general from 1992 to 1996, initiated a reform of the Secretariat, somewhat reducing the size of the organisation.[68][69] His successor, Kofi Annan, initiated further management reforms in the face of threats from the US to withhold its UN dues.[69]

Though the UN Charter had been written primarily to prevent aggression by one nation against another, in the early 1990s the UN faced several simultaneous, serious crises within Somalia, Haiti, Mozambique, and the nations that previously made up Yugoslavia.[70] The UN mission in Somalia was widely viewed as a failure after the United States' withdrawal following casualties in the Battle of Mogadishu. The UN mission to Bosnia faced worldwide ridicule for its indecisive and confused mission in the face of ethnic cleansing.[71] In 1994, the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda failed to intervene in the Rwandan genocide amidst indecision in the Security Council.[72]

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, international interventions authorized by the UN took a wider variety of forms. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 authorised the NATO-led Kosovo Force beginning in 1999. The UN mission in the Sierra Leone Civil War was supplemented by a British military intervention. The invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was overseen by NATO.[73] In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq despite failing to pass a UN Security Council resolution for authorization, prompting a new round of questioning of the organization's effectiveness.[74]

Under the eighth secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, the UN intervened with peacekeepers in crises such as the War in Darfur in Sudan and the Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sent observers and chemical weapons inspectors to the Syrian Civil War.[75] In 2013, an internal review of UN actions in the final battles of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009 concluded that the organization had suffered a "systemic failure".[76] In 2010, the organization suffered the worst loss of life in its history, when 101 personnel died in the Haiti earthquake.[77] Acting under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011, NATO countries intervened in the First Libyan Civil War.

The Millennium Summit was held in 2000 to discuss the UN's role in the 21st century.[78] The three-day meeting was the largest gathering of world leaders in history, and it culminated in the adoption by all member states of the Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs), a commitment to achieve international development in areas such as poverty reduction, gender equality and public health. Progress towards these goals, which were to be met by 2015, was ultimately uneven. The 2005 World Summit reaffirmed the UN's focus on promoting development, peacekeeping, human rights and global security.[79] The Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs) were launched in 2015 to succeed the Millennium Development Goals.[80]

In addition to addressing global challenges, the UN has sought to improve its accountability and democratic legitimacy by engaging more with civil society and fostering a global constituency.[81] In an effort to enhance transparency, in 2016 the organization held its first public debate between candidates for secretary-general.[82] On 1 January 2017, Portuguese diplomat António Guterres, who had previously served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, became the ninth secretary-general. Guterres has highlighted several key goals for his administration, including an emphasis on diplomacy for preventing conflicts, more effective peacekeeping efforts, and streamlining the organization to be more responsive and versatile to international needs.[83]

On 13 June 2019, the UN signed a Strategic Partnership Framework with the World Economic Forum in order to "jointly accelerate" the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[84][/spoiler]

TIME TO STUDY!!!

Why’d you copy and paste a Wikipedia article

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:it doesn't matter, you still have to if we tell you too

no

if they aren't part of the treaty, nothing applies to them

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Adreabhal

Pyhdon wrote:all Soda Pop cans cost 1·, all Meats cost 1¢, all Jewellery cost around 1.66◊, all houses cost 1√, and one piece of a city costs 1µ.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=pyhdon/detail=factbook/id=1954367

Man inflation must be going crazy

Socialistic Britain, Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:Non, mon ami, donne-moi une minute,

J'ai quelque chose de grand prévu...

If I have to remind y’all again I’m gonna go even more bonkers than I already am

Socialistic Britain, Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:though you still have to follow its laws, we have over 7 members now so

No

Kaidia

Kaidia wrote:no

if they aren't part of the treaty, nothing applies to them

If you want to force someone into compliance you have to actuall well force them not just say “you gotta bro” Vordoslavia

Socialistic Britain, Kaidia, Adreabhal

Bros making the League of Nations again

Socialistic Britain, New United Common-Lands, Mjau

Sicario Mercenary Corps wrote:If you want to force someone into compliance you have to actuall well force them not just say “you gotta bro” Vordoslavia

si

👍

Sicario Mercenary Corps

Sicario Mercenary Corps wrote:Bros making the League of Nations again

😂

Socialistic Britain, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia

Vordos trying to force people to comply with rules and then Pyhdon is just

Selling pop

Socialistic Britain, New United Common-Lands, Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Adreabhal

Lemona wrote:Vordos trying to force people to comply with rules and then Pyhdon is just

Selling pop

hmmmmmmm

Socialistic Britain

Is anyone at war?

Kaidia, Mjau

Lemona wrote:Vordos trying to force people to comply with rules and then Pyhdon is just

Selling pop

the duality of man

Kaidia, Mjau

Rica Nardis wrote:Is anyone at war?

Not yet

Rica Nardis, Kaidia, Mjau

Why did I watch a sad film 😭

Yodle, Socialistic Britain, Kaidia, Mjau

New United Common-Lands wrote:Why did I watch a sad film 😭

can't be that sad

New United Common-Lands

New United Common-Lands wrote:Why did I watch a sad film 😭

I watch sad films every day. Its called english class. She spends the 3 hour lecture talking about her tinder misfires.

Yodle, Socialistic Britain, Kaidia

Flomonga wrote:I watch sad films every day. Its called english class. She spends the 3 hour lecture talking about her tinder misfires.

Your English teacher talks about her bad Tinder experiences?

America The Greater, Socialistic Britain, Kaidia

Yodle wrote:Your English teacher talks about her bad Tinder experiences?

Yep. to be fair, half the time we egg her on to waste time because most of us already have the credits to graduate its just extra classes for those who need the credits.

Socialistic Britain, Kaidia

New United Common-Lands wrote:Why did I watch a sad film 😭

Did you watch the final AoT episode?

New United Common-Lands, Kaidia

Also, I keep hearing about a war. May I have a sparknotes version of whats happening?

Kaidia

Lkandria wrote:Did you watch the final AoT episode?

AoT is amazing.

I'm on s1 tho so plz don't spoil

Kaidia

Rica Nardis wrote:AoT is amazing.

I'm on s1 tho so plz don't spoil

Goku dies

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:Bill idea, give thoughts

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1954348

Mmmm no

Kaidia

Lkandria wrote:Goku dies

goku isn't in AoT

Kaidia

Lemona wrote:Vordos trying to force people to comply with rules and then Pyhdon is just

Selling pop

A welcome change.

But no, I'm not signing that stupid Akorrda treaty because plainly, I like my privileges as a sovereign state, like declaring war and imposing sanctions whenever I damn well feel like it. I can't very well be a Cancrine Empire if I'm bowing the the whims of a state like Vordoslavia.

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Kaidia, Vordoslavia, Flomonga

Adreabhal wrote:A welcome change.

But no, I'm not signing that stupid Akorrda treaty because plainly, I like my privileges as a sovereign state, like declaring war and imposing sanctions whenever I damn well feel like it. I can't very well be a Cancrine Empire if I'm bowing the the whims of a state like Vordoslavia.

how about we both talk over each other's alcoholic drinks in Greater Akorrda

Just pick a city, Veris or Akorrda?

Adreabhal

Kaidia wrote:how about we both talk over each other's alcoholic drinks in Greater Akorrda

Just pick a city, Veris or Akorrda?

What's the difference, besides Akorrda being the capital?

Kaidia

Didn’t know you could just name a treaty off some random place even if the person didn’t even know it was being made there

Kaidia, Vordoslavia

Adreabhal wrote:What's the difference, besides Akorrda being the capital?

Greater Akorrda is the mix of two cities, now provinces: Akorrda and Veris.

Veris is smaller but a bit richer, with lush fields and great agriculture.

Akorrda is industrious, and is the Trade Capital of Kaidia. Akorrda is much bigger and houses the Capitol Building.

But Veris is said to hold the Imperial Citadel, even though the Citadel is outside the jurisdiction of Veris and Akorrda.

Lkandria wrote:Did you watch the final AoT episode?

Only seen the first episode of AoT haha, or maybe a few more. Anime is not really my thing

Kaidia

New United Common-Lands wrote:Only seen the first episode of AoT haha, or maybe a few more. Anime is not really my thing

anime has become that mainstream that now the people who don't watch it are considered "cringe"

how did this occur

what happened

what did I miss

Kaidia, Adreabhal, Mjau

Socialistic Britain wrote:anime has become that mainstream that now the people who don't watch it are considered "cringe"

how did this occur

what happened

what did I miss

Oh wouldn’t call someone cringe for not watching anime. Instead I’d kidnap them and make them watch one punch man season 1

Socialistic Britain, Kaidia, Mjau, Celist

Socialistic Britain wrote:anime has become that mainstream that now the people who don't watch it are considered "cringe"

how did this occur

what happened

what did I miss

I don’t know what mainstream I’m in but this is not the case

Kaidia, Mjau

Socialistic Britain wrote:anime has become that mainstream that now the people who don't watch it are considered "cringe"

how did this occur

what happened

what did I miss

I watched a sad film

Kaidia, Mjau

New United Common-Lands wrote:I watched a sad film

What film was it?

Kaidia

Adreabhal wrote:A welcome change.

But no, I'm not signing that stupid Akorrda treaty because plainly, I like my privileges as a sovereign state, like declaring war and imposing sanctions whenever I damn well feel like it. I can't very well be a Cancrine Empire if I'm bowing the the whims of a state like Vordoslavia.

not just me, but the SDUPG.

Kaidia

Vordoslavia wrote:not just me, but the SDUPG.

doesn't make it better

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Adreabhal, Vordoslavia

Kaidia wrote:doesn't make it better

yeah, doesn't make it better that YOU don't want to follow new international Gaian law

Kaidia

Adreabhal wrote:A welcome change.

But no, I'm not signing that stupid Akorrda treaty because plainly, I like my privileges as a sovereign state, like declaring war and imposing sanctions whenever I damn well feel like it. I can't very well be a Cancrine Empire if I'm bowing the the whims of a state like Vordoslavia.

you don't have to sign it, as long as you follow new law, you don't have to sign anything.

Lemona wrote:Didn’t know you could just name a treaty off some random place even if the person didn’t even know it was being made there

.

only because Kaidia was the main nation against IBSO, so if he wants it gone then damn it I'm signing the thing in his capital

Vordoslavia wrote:you don't have to sign it, as long as you follow new law, you don't have to sign anything.

Well I don't have to follow any laws or accords that I don't sign onto

Sicario Mercenary Corps

Adreabhal wrote:Well I don't have to follow any laws or accords that I don't sign onto

Article 2 (6) - Need to ensure that non-United Nations Members act in accordance with its Principles. Article 2 (6) of the Charter states that the Organization shall ensure that non-Members also act in accordance with its principles.

I remind you that SDUPG is a UN BASED GROUP

Adreabhal

Vordoslavia wrote:Article 2 (6) - Need to ensure that non-United Nations Members act in accordance with its Principles. Article 2 (6) of the Charter states that the Organization shall ensure that non-Members also act in accordance with its principles.

I remind you that SDUPG is a UN BASED GROUP

this is a real-life UN article

Vordoslavia wrote:Article 2 (6) - Need to ensure that non-United Nations Members act in accordance with its Principles. Article 2 (6) of the Charter states that the Organization shall ensure that non-Members also act in accordance with its principles.

I remind you that SDUPG is a UN BASED GROUP

Yeah, act in accordance with its principles, not every single one of its laws

Sicario Mercenary Corps

Adreabhal wrote:Yeah, act in accordance with its principles, not every single one of its laws

one of my principles it that (Almost) everybody on Gaia must comply with SDUPG

Adreabhal

Vordoslavia wrote:one of my principles it that (Almost) everybody on Gaia must comply with SDUPG

And that's why I'm not joining <3

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Vordoslavia

Adreabhal wrote:And that's why I'm not joining <3

Even if you are not going to join, you must

Article 2 (6) - Need to ensure that non-United Nations Members act in accordance with its Principles. Article 2 (6) of the Charter states that the Organization shall ensure that non-Members also act in accordance with its principles.

Vordoslavia wrote:Even if you are not going to join, you must

Article 2 (6) - Need to ensure that non-United Nations Members act in accordance with its Principles. Article 2 (6) of the Charter states that the Organization shall ensure that non-Members also act in accordance with its principles.

Oh yeah? Who's gonna make me? Your industrial-era army? Your other member states? Yeah right

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Vordoslavia

Adreabhal wrote:Oh yeah? Who's gonna make me? Your industrial-era army? Your other member states? Yeah right

sanctions

and other members

Sicario Mercenary Corps, Adreabhal

Vordoslavia wrote:sanctions

and other members

I have enough outside allies to survive, like Lemona

Sicario Mercenary Corps

Adreabhal wrote:I have enough outside allies to survive, like Lemona

In fact, Lemona: what do you say to forming our own formal economic/political alliance? I think it would do us both well in the face of such insolence from Vordo

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