Questions tagged [united-nations]
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation, established on 24 October 1945 after World War II
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How adamant/sustained was George F. Kennan's opposition to the [creation of the] UN?
Wikipedia's page on George F. Kennan says that he
warned against U.S. participation and reliance on multilateral, legalistic and moralistic organizations such as the United Nations.
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Why did this anti-communist pamphlet, from the USA in the 1950s, include UNESCO among its targets?
The English language Wikipedia article on McCarthyism includes an image of an "anti-communist" pamphlet, apparently from the 1950s:
I was intrigued by point 4:
RIGHT NOW films are being ...
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Why was Stalin OK with the UN's headquaters being placed in the US?
It feels like Stalin should have objected to this because this gives the US some extra influence. Why not insist on placing the headquaters somewhere more neutral?
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Was the first use of glass teleprompters in Lyndon Johnson’s speech to the UN’s 20th anniversary celebration? (1965)
I came across a short video recording of his speech at c-span.org
I was surprised by the appearance of the sleek glass devices that appear to be teleprompters beside the podium. They appear almost ...
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How far did Malcolm X get with taking the United States to the United Nations?
In Malcolm X's original The Ballot or the Bullet speech, delivered in Ohio on 3 Apr 1964, just after he left the Nation of Islam, he outlines his case for taking the civil rights movement to the ...
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Why did the USSR support the PRC entry into the UN?
In 1971, the USSR (and satellites) voted in favor of UN Resolution 2758, which recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the only legitimate representative of China to the United ...
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Is there a list of UN peacekeepers that ditched their posts?
7:48 of this video asseverates
French peacekeepers are regularly shot at,
becoming so intimidated that on one occasion they withdrew to their barracks, allowing Croatians to overrun their ...
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What explains the large number of US Security Council vetoes between 1970-1991?
Here's the Wikipedia breakdown of Security Council vetoes
I understand that before 1970, the Soviet Union vetoed a large number of new member accessions because the USSR wanted the soviet republics ...
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What is the basis of the Spanish claim to Gibraltar?
I looked at resources in English, particularly here. Whilst I expected some bias, it seemed strange that it was not able to identify anything in the Spanish argument that looked like a case to answer.
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Why did Russia accept the legal framework that led to Kosovo's independence?
Kosovo's unilateral secession was judged not illegal by the ICJ based on Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and the UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo) regulations promulgating the ...
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Why didn't China vote in UNSC Resolution 344?
According to this Wikipedia article, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 344 in 1973 with 10 votes from non-permanent members and 4 abstentions from the permanent members France, ...
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Why is France a permanent member of the UN security council? [duplicate]
There are 5 permanent members of the UN security council - USA, UK, Russia, China and France.
I can understand why USA, UK, Russia and China have their places, being on the winning side at the end of ...
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Is there an historical example for the possibility of peaceful resolution of Kashmir conflict?
For decades two nations (born out of one) have been looking for excuses to hurt each other. Just when you think that both nations have gotten over their respective pasts and are finally moving towards ...
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Why wasn't the 1953 Iranian coup d’état considered to be a violation of United Nations Charter?
The United Nations Charter explicitly states within Article 2 that the organization is based on the "sovereign equality" of all its members. Among its foundational principles, it further states in ...
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Did specific countries have special influence in the founding of the UN? [duplicate]
I'm having a presentation on the influence of non European countries in the foundation of the UN. I was wondering was specific points especially China and the US had that got into the foundation of ...
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Which countries actually played a part in the foundation of the UN [closed]
I'm doing a presentation on the influence of countries outside Europe in the foundation of the United Nations, I think China had some influence but I'm not sure!
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Why wasn't there any international outrage on the Hindu genocide carried out by Pakistan during 1971? [closed]
It was an ethnic cleansing deliberately carried out by the Pakistani troops to get rid of the Hindu minority communities especially Bengali population that mostly settled in eastern Pakistan post ...
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Why couldn't the UN lift the siege of Sarajevo?
The Siege of Sarajevo lasted for more than three years, and the people inside were very much trapped. This was in 1992, at which time the UN had ~40,000 troops, which it had mobilized for the specific ...
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How did India become a founding member of the UN?
I was looking at the list of founding members of the United Nations, and I was surprised to see that India is in that list.
India was a part of the British Empire in 1945 and became independent only ...
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In the Palestine Partition Plan, why was Jaffa allocated to the Arab state?
I'm reading through the document, "The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part II" by the United Nations. Under the provisions of the Palestine Resolution, they note that ...
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What has prevented the United Nations from failing the same way as the League of Nations? [closed]
The League of Nations proved to be incapable of controlling the Axis Powers in the 1930s and was subsequently replaced by the United Nations after WWII.
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Why did Russia inherit the USSR status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power?
Russian Federation was certainly the biggest component after the collapse of USSR. However, I don't quite understand why the very valuable geopolitical position as a permanent member of UN Security ...
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Where were they ecoshapping and were condemned by the UN
I remember an article about an North American Indian tribe that sank an iron rich ship in their lake or inlet to the ocean in order to increase the amount of fish. I think the UN sanctioned them or ...
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Why is China a member of the UN Security Council?
The United Nations was formed at the end of world war II, to maintain peace throughout the world. Within the structure of UN, Security Council is ranked above all.
There were only five permanent ...
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Why did so many countries agree to the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
The Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 contains (among others) provisions that amount to the following:
There are five countries (the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China) that ...
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Was the UN critically involved in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Is there any evidence to show that the Cuban Missile Crisis was scaled back because of the actions of UN personnel acting in their UN role?
The topic came up recently about precedent for UN having ...
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Instances of the UN defusing serious crises
One of the reasons why the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis did not escalate into a war was due to the diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson in the UN. Are there other instances where the defusing of a serious crisis ...
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Did India turn down a permanent seat in the UN in 1955?
As per this article, India was offered a permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 1955 but Jawaharlal Nehru turned it down and the seat went to China. In light of the current lobbying that India ...
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Has the United States ever been formally condemned by the United Nations?
Presumably, due to its veto power, the United States has never been condemned by the UN Security Council, but has it has it ever been formally condemned by another UN governing body, like the General ...
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What alternative locations were considered for the United Nations?
When reading up on the United Nations on Wikipedia, I noticed that Navy Island near Niagara falls was being considered at the time of the groups creation for it's location. I'm wondering what ...
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Why did the Soviet Union get 3 seats in the UN?
Even before the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Belarus (which were then officially part of the Soviet Union) had independent seats at the United Nations. Why didn't the US or the UK get the ...
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