UNITED NATIONS DAY

The Founding of The UN

• The United Nations was founded on this date October 24, 1945

• The Treaty of Versailles brought a formal to World War 1

• A League of Nations was formed and its platform was to prevent outbreak of wars, encourage negotiations.

• Settle international debates with diplomatic measures• and to improve to improve the quality of life around

the world

The Founding of The UN

• With outbreak of World War 2 on September 1, 1939, the League of Nations was viewed as an ineffective failure

• On April 25,1945 at a conference of International Organizations, in San Francisco, California, the idea of our present day United Nations was created

• The United Nations was officially created on this date when the United Nations security council ratified the U. N. charter

United Nation Facts

• The Headquarters of the United Nations is located in New York City.

• When you pass through the gates of the United Nations visitors’ entrance, you enter an international territory.

• This 18-acre site does not belong to just one country, but to all countries that have joined the United Organization.

• Currently, the United Nations has 193 Member States.

Secretary General

• The Secretary General is the leader/ spokes person of the United Nations.

• The current Secretary General is Ban Ki-moon.• Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is from South

Korea• This is his second term and it will conclude at

the end of 2016

The United Nation Security Council

• The security council is made up of 15 member states• of the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council, 5

states are permanent members of the U.N. security council and they are

• The United States• France• The Republic of China• Russia• The United Kingdom

The United Nations has four main purposes

• To keep peace throughout the world.• To develop friendly relations among nations• To help nations work together to improve the

lives of the poor, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms

• To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals

The Official Languages Of the United Nations

• Arabic• Chinese• English• French• Russian• Spanish

CONGRATULATIONS

Join us as we celebrate with citizen throughout the entire WORLD, on this day of global observance, of the 68th anniversary of the chartering of the United Nations