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A bust of Nicolaus Copernicus at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, a gift from the People's Republic of Poland to the United Nations (1970).. The United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations, or individuals.
The line of blue silk running between the two square panels illustrates the United Nation's commitment to future peace and individual freedom. [3] In the right square panel, a man stands waving the United Nations flag among the joyful crowd, emphasising the role of the United Nations in creating a peaceful world after World War Two.
The flag of the United Nations is a sky blue banner containing the United Nations' emblem in the centre. The emblem on the flag is coloured white; it is a depiction of the world map in the azimuthal equidistant projection (centred on the North Pole and the International Date Line), surrounded by a pair of olive branches. The emblem was ...
it was published in the United States before 17 September 1987 by the United Nations, and it is not sourced to a document listed in the appendix of ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 (these documents were copyrighted under an exception to the general practice).
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets two requirements: it was published in the United States before 17 September 1987 by the United Nations, and; it is not sourced to a document listed in the appendix of ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 (these documents were copyrighted under an exception to the general practice).
[10] The amount of sovereign states in the world is generally derived from the number of member states of the United Nations (UN), although non-member states do exist, [11] with such states being called de facto states. [12] As of 2024, the UN currently includes 193 member states and 2 permanent observer states: the State of Palestine and ...
The latest dispute in the controversial waters follows China’s submission of nautical charts to the United Nations, drawing a baseline "territorial waters" around the prime fishing patch of the ...
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. [27] It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. [28]