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  2. Enlargement of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    As of 5 January 2025, there are 193 member states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. [1]The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations Security Council resolutions that recommended their admission and the United Nations General ...

  3. Member states of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...

  4. List of sovereign states in the 1940s - Wikipedia

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    UN member state from 27 December 1945. Argentina was a federation of 23 provinces and 10 federal territories. [a] It had a claim over Argentine Antarctica (from 1942). It also claimed the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, both of which were British overseas territories.

  5. History of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    A History of the United Nations Charter: The Role of the United States, 1940–1945 (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1958.) Schlesinger, Stephen C. Act of creation: The founding of the United Nations: A story of superpowers, secret agents, wartime allies and enemies, and their quest for a peaceful world.

  6. Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

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    The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States.

  7. Charter of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The Charter entered into force on 24 October 1945, following ratification by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, [Note 2] France, [Note 3] the Soviet Union, [Note 4] the United Kingdom, and the United States—and a majority of the other signatories; this is considered the official starting date of the ...

  8. United Nations - Wikipedia

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    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 in London that led to the Declaration of St James's Palace on 12 June 1941.

  9. United Nations Conference on International Organization

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    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.