is UN fulfil its role in keeping international peace and security?
81652
No, we sent whats his name to reform the un to do our bidding.\n\nThere will not be peace on earth until all humans are eliminated because good and evil are only concepts of humans.
337620
First things first-they need to make India a permanent UNSC member.We have the world's third largest military,a booming economy,a stable governemnt and our soldiers have laid down their lives in almost every U.N peacekeeping operation from Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka.It's about time India (one of the original members of the UN-we joined in 1945-before we were even independent) got the recognition it deserves.
948439
I have a political science BS and the UN as worthless as they are never sanctioned anyone to invade anywhere.  That would take huevos and authority, neither of which the UN possess.\nSeriously though the UN is only a small step above the League of Nations in that the US participate, kind of.  If we didn't it would financially collapse, have no home or military authority.  Where would they meet?  The Hague,  I don't even think there is a real airport there
502342
The U.N. stands for United Nations.\n\nThis is a replacement for The League of Nations which was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The League's goals included disarmament; preventing war through collective security; settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy; and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The old philosophy, growing out of the Congress of Vienna (1815), saw Europe as a shifting map of alliances among nation-states, creating a balance of power maintained by strong armies and secret agreements. Under the new philosophy, the League was a government of governments, with the role of settling disputes between individual nations in an open and legalist forum. The impetus for the founding of the League came from Democratic U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, though the United States never joined the League of Nations.\n\nThe League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were often very reluctant to do. After a number of notable successes and some early failures, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War made it clear that the League had failed in its primary purpose—to avoid any future world war. The United Nations replaced it after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.\n\nThe United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations which was founded in 1919.\n\nAs of 2006 there exist 191 United Nations member states, including virtually all internationally recognised independent nations, except Vatican City (the Holy See) (which has declined membership but is an observer state), Palestine (whose status is still one of a de facto state, and has not yet legally declared statehood), Niue (whose foreign affairs are dealt with by the New Zealand Government) and Taiwan, which has not been internationally recognised as independent or as the Republic of China (whose status as a member state was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1971). Palestine and the Holy See both have Permanent Observer Missions to the UN.\n\nFrom its headquarters in New York City, the UN's member countries and specialised agencies give guidance and decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout each year. The organisation is divided into administrative bodies, including the UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, UN Economic and Social Council, UN Trusteeship Council, UN Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice, as well as counterpart bodies dealing with the governance of all other UN system agencies, such as the WHO and UNICEF. The UN's most visible public figure is the Secretary-General.\n\nThe UN was founded after the end of World War II by the victorious world powers with the hope that it would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible, by fostering an ideal of collective security. The organization's structure still reflects in some ways the circumstances of its founding. For example, the five main victors of World War II are the Security Council permanent members with veto power: The United States of America, the Soviet Union (which was replaced by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, and the Republic of China (later replaced by the People's Republic of China). Writer Alistair Cooke suggested in one of his "Letter from America" radio programmes that Stalin had in fact come up with the idea of the present
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The U.N. is a useless entity. It is internally corrupt and uses it's power to benefit it's members. They make hollow threats to countries and never back their own decisions.
1089320
It would not be correct to see Singapore's memberships in ASEAN/UN as successes or failures. It has its limitations as to the roles Singapore can play because of its small city nation status, population, economy, military. As such the country's contribution can't be one of leading the region nor be prominent on the world stage. Nevertheless Singapore have been a positive and pro-active nation particularly in ASEAN throwing its weight behind humanitarian efforts in the Indian-Andaman tsunami relief and other mercy missions; tackling terrorist activity within the state; and promoting intra-regional trade and investments. Despite being surrounded with predominantly muslim neighbour countries, Singapore has achieved remarkable stability, peace and prosperity because its founding fathers laid down a very progressive system for the current generation of leaders to build on. Asean / UN has little to do with the "integrity", "vision" and "ingenuity" of the Singaporean people - these are the real successes of Singapore.
941185
does any respect un diplomatic officers ? why should they
126363
WELL UNITED NATION NO MORE A NEUTRAL BODY ...NEITHER UNITED NATION HAVE SO MUCH POWER TO TAKE DECESION...IT IS JUST RUN BY FEW COUNTRIES OR I MUST SAY FEW PEOPLE...SO IT HAS NOTHING DO WITH PROGRESS OF INDIA OR ANYOTHER COUNTRY..SO WE SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC DIPLOMATIC TIES RATHER THAN WASTING TIME TO GET A PERMANENT SEAT IN UNITED NATION
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Never. And maybe if we had stuck around in Iraq after the Gulf War instead of counting on the UN inspectors to do their jobs, we could have put out little fires before they became big ones.\n\nSorry for putting "UN" in the same sentence with "do their jobs". It couldn't be helped.
1101148
yes, of course it helps when you have big persuasion stick called USA to stop anybody else in the world complaining through the UN.\n\nAnd they wonder why the UN is so impotent?
524955
The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations which was considered by many to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body: it had been formed in response to World War I, on the premise that such wars could be prevented by such an entity, yet had failed to prevent World War II. \n\nThe biggest advantage the United Nations has over the League of Nations is the ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers.\n\nThe term "United Nations" (which term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies.\n\nThe idea for the UN was elaborated in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo and Tehran in 1943. From August to October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain international peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were discussed and debated by governments and citizens worldwide.\n\nOn April 25, 1945, the UN Conference on International Organizations began in San Francisco. In addition to the Governments, a number of non-governmental organizations, including Lions Clubs International, were invited to assist in drafting the charter. The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations two months later on June 26. Poland had not been represented at the conference, but a place had been reserved for it among the original signatories, and it added its name later. The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.\n\nInitially, the body was known as the United Nations Organisation, or UNO. However, by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as \nThe United Nations, or The UN.
84902
The UN doesn't rule the world.  The UN doesn't condemn terrorist attacks against Israel.  The UN blew it's job in Africa, whatever their conditions for war doesn't mean ANYTHING.
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India seeks to play a global role to match it;s growing economic stature.\n\nIt's bidding for a permanent seat in the UN security council.\n\nInterestingly, India was offered a permanent UN security council seat which it gave to China as show of friendship(bad decision) as china is now opposing India's bid.\n\nPakistan at this moment is trying to figure out whether it should support the jehadis fighting against US or it should support US and keep getting the aid on whcih it has survived for so many years.\n\nIndia is way ahead of Pakistan in all respects.
585900
Well the Security Council of the UN is investigating things like the genocide in the Sudan and the Iranian nuclear issue. It was formed by all of the member countries.
309996
The UN has supported the disarmament of civilians for decades.\n\nhttp://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/ungungrab.htm\n\nhttp://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Guns!Gun_Control.shtml\n\nhttp://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RS22108.pdf\n\nhttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33584\n\nhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul130.html\n\nhttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/on20010713.shtml
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The United Nations is an out-dated relic of the Cold War era that was used to protect smaller countries and  counter the growing influence of the USSR in eastern Europe.\n\nWith the Soviet Union dissolved and no major thret of world war there is no real reason for the UN to exist aside from a glorified international economy watcher.\n\nSeems like since the Berlin Wall fell the entire purpose of the UN has changed from "oppose the growing Communist ideology" to "take pock-shots at the United States".\n\nPlus, the US gains next to nothing being part of the UN. We are the largest contributor to UN-led relief efforts and charities, not to mention our military contributions far outweigh any other UN affiliated country.\n\nShort answer: Yes, the US should pull out. We lose more than we gain from our relationship with the UN.
1088023
The reason why the UN is established in the first place is to have a neutral ground where international disputes and issues can be discussed by all the member states.  Therefore, I think that having the UN is better than having each state have their say on international issues using their own ways (wars, etc.)  It was after the second world war that this organization came to be.  Hence, it is an important impartial way of avoiding conflicts worldwide.