THE UNITED NATIONS

ORGANISATION

Aims and organization

AIMS

Avoid future wars, substituting the rule of law for

the rule of war.

Maintain peace and security and to deal with

aggression, develop friendly relations

Members promise to settle their disputes

peacefully.

Offending states could be expelled from the

organisation.

THE BODY

General Assembly

Main forum of debate; each may have up to 5 delegates, but

only 1 vote.

minor matters may be decided by simple majority

Important decisions require 2/3 of the majority’s votes

meets annually and chooses the states required for the non-

permanent seats of the security council.

SIGNIFICANCE

Allows decisions to be made by member states

effectively.

THE BODY

Security council (executive council/cabinet)

for more immediate practical importance than the assembly

5 big powers and 10 temporary memberships

5 big powers possessed a power of veto.

Absence or abstaining from voting does not count as a veto.

no nation, especially no major nations can be compelled by a

committee vote to act against what it believes to be its national

interest.

SIGNIFICANCE

Allows fair and equal final decision to be made by

member states

THE BODY

Secretariat

Civil service of UN.

At the head of the secretariat is the secretary general,

who is recommended to the general assembly by the

security council. appointed by majority vote.

SIGNIFICANCE

Pivot for the entire united nations.

THE BODY

Trusteeship Council

Inherited the work of league’s mandates commission.

undertake to promote economic, social and educational

advance and to prepare the trust territories for self-

government.

SIGNIFICANCE

THE BODY

Court of international justice

15 judges representing the world’s different

legal systems

gives decisions where the parties request it, but

has no means of enforcing its judgments.

SIGNIFICANCE

Allows justice to be served with accordance to the

laws of the 15 states, therefore fairly.

THE BODYSocial and Economic Council

Food and agricultural organisations (1945)

United Nations educational, scientific and

cultural (1946)

World health Org. (1948)

United Nations Children’s fund

The United Nations relief and rehabilitation

agency

SIGNIFICANCE

Different organisations to tackle different world

issues

THE ENDBy: Harish

Jon

Chin Kang