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The election of non-permanent members to the Security Council for 2016–2017 was held on 15 October 2015, in which Egypt, Senegal, Uruguay, Japan, and Ukraine were elected to replace outgoing members Chad, Nigeria, Chile, Jordan, and Lithuania, respectively. The election of non-permanent members for 2017–2018 will also occur in this session ...
League of Nations. The United Nations ( UN) is a diplomatic and political [ 2] international organization with the intended purpose of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and serving as a center for coordinating the actions of member nations. [ 3]
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is a task force organized by the government of the Philippines in 2018 as part of its "Whole-of-Nation approach" to respond to and raise awareness about ongoing communist armed conflicts in the Philippines, [1] [2] after the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated peace talks between the ...
The 70th anniversary (" UN70 ") of the founding of the United Nations (UN) fell in 2015. [a] Around the time of the launch on 1 October by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, celebratory events took place in various locations. Several international conferences were held, including one to approve a new set of Sustainable Development Goals.
The Charter of the United Nations ( UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations. [ 1] It establishes the purposes, governing structure, and overall framework of the UN system, including its six principal organs: the Secretariat, the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of ...
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during June 5–16, 1972. When the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene the 1972 Stockholm Conference, taking up the offer of the Government of Sweden to host it, [1] UN Secretary-General U Thant invited Maurice Strong to lead it as Secretary ...
The United Nations Conference on International Organization ( UNCIO ), commonly known as the San Francisco Conference, was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, United States. At this convention, the delegates reviewed and rewrote the Dumbarton Oaks ...