How is the UNSC structured?how is membership determined? and what reforms have been suggested on this issur?
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There are 5 permanent members, who have veto rights, and then there are regional members who are voted on.  There have been suggestions that India, Germany and Japan, currently not permanent members, should be put on the council permanently in view of their importance to world economy and government, but no one really wants to try to reinvent things there because all hell will break loose.  In addition, South American and African countries are upset they have no permanent representatives on the council.
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"...Many years will pass and some czars, mighty\nand those as not, will stop obeying that Court,\nthough considering it with words. They will act to their own\nwill..."\n\nThis XIX century prophesy could best describe UN. When it was established, UN did seem to have a purpose. The most sensitive purpose was to mediate in conflicts between countries. Today, it is rather a mechanism in the hands of those who are above it - the ones who finance it. UN officials are like parrots who have been tought how to evade provocative pinpointing questions.\n\nIf bending and playing blind to the mightier and violating own charters (like during their entire involvement in ex Yugoslavia, against the Serbs) is a way to survive as Organization; despite how poltronic and corruptive as it is, and still be capable to send a handful of food packages to the hungry children in Africa, although almost all of it would be taken away from the hands of the children by the local warlords there, then I guess some children won't die that day. That is one good purpose. \n\nTo the bottom line, just having a chance of being heard in UN, is extremely good today, in this era of mediatic manipulation. That is why some countries have been demembered from UN at some crytical times... Their voices were too damaging to some UN dark purposes... Evil is not always capable of looking at its own reflection on the mirror, and at times the mask of UN is needed.\n\nThere are some good people in UN. These people fight the bad people in UN. Sometimes the bad people are not "motivated," and the good people manage to do some good.
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The UN is controlled by the security council where the permanent members have a veto.They are first and foremost responsible for any failure of the UN in anything.I admit it's more than annoying but it's also weird to blame the UN as a front to not have to blame the world community.\nThe UN can only be as strong or as weak as its members
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http://www.un.org/News/ossg/fy.htm
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The United Nations is a debating society, and cannot agree on hardly anything.  How would we define "the world community?"  And how would YOU define the Kashmir issue?
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Well the answer to that is the same for EVERY question concerning the Un.  They will have a comittee to see if a comitee is needed for a comittee creating comittee.  Then a comittee will be sent to see which comittee gets coffee and donuts.\n   Then they will whine about America and Israel, and form a Kleenex comittee.  Then they will argue about passing a resolution.  5 years later they will ask America to enforce that resolution, and then yell at America for doing so.\n    That is how the Un works now, how the Un has always worked, and how the Un will continue to work.
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I would like to see the United Nations become an agency with more teeth to it. It seems that most of the time, they sit around and talk and then after a few months of "You really ought to not do this or that", they get around to discussing possible sanctions, and ask permission to go see what may be going on. They don't act with enough authority. It would appear that any court of any of it's members could do a faster job of resolving a problem. (Maybe not to every ones satisfaction.) Why does it take the U.N so long? They need to become a world court that you don't mess around with.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945. It began to resolve WWI, and as a way nations could talk, before declaring war on each other.\n\nI believe the founding nations included Great Britain, the US and Germany and France (not sure about the last two). But anyhow, it started with lofty ideals of providing a forum where nations could meet in a neutral environment and talk problems through. And since it was founded during times of war, concerns over Human Rights were brought to the fore.\n\nCurrently, there is alot of politics going on with the UN, but the main purpose is still to provide that open communication between nations of the world.\n\nThere is tons more out there on the United Nations, and all you have to do is Google it.
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Organization of American States?  The international association of nations in North and South America.
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You know they have a marvelous invention called books & some wierd thing called search engines??????\n\nUN secertary is elected by the members of the UN. They serve 10 year terms. The New one is from South Korea, Ban Ki-Moon, 62.\n\nI aggree about the bribe thing as well. Not a UN fan. Wish they would leave NY.
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There are 191 Nations included in the General Assembly including virtually every recognized independent state in the world. \n\nThyere are 15 Nations on the security council. 5 Permanent Members (France, US, UK, China, Russia) and 10 Elected Nations who are elected by the General Assembly for 2 year terms.
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Has the UN ever been effective anywhere would be a better question.  Other than a place for different goverments to come together and meet, the UN has no real power and no real effectiveness.
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less developed country or lower developed country\n\nA country designated by the UN as LDC based on criteria of low per capita GDP, weak human resources (life expectancy, calorie intake, etc.), and a low level of economic diversification (share of manufacturing and other measures). As of 2002 there are 49 LDCs.
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The security council (UNSC) was not a failure when it comes to working against muslims of the world and passing laws against the muslim people hardly impacting the corrupt muslim regimes. \n\nLike it did in Iraq by killing more than a million children after first gulf war, same happened with Libya, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Syria, Egypt, and the list goes on and on.\n\nThe puppet rulers are actually getting all the gains of these resolutions passedby the UNSC, after sometime USA start deciding to attack all of these muslim countires and there is not a sinlge resolution in the UNSC to prevent this idiotic and disastrous steps taken by the morons Bush, Blair and their followers.\n\nTherefore, it is highly in-effective and highly mis-trusted by the muslims of the world. In fact, it is the enemy who always either provide covers to murder our people or keep silent on the actions against us.\n\nThey need to be fixed too.
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there are 192, including the Vatican City, countries in the world but there are only 191 members of the UN (excepting Vatican City that opted not to be a member)
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The idea of the United Nations is a great one.  In the sense that it provides a forum for nations to discuss their differences and develop compromises it does what is intended.  However, it has also been very ineffectual in stopping differences between nations which have entered into violent relationships.\n\nIt also promotes and lifts up to high positions nations which treat their own people in a terrible manner, thereby rewarding nations for not following the mission of the United Nations.  \n\nIt seems that the possibility of breaking up the United Nations is becoming increasingly likely.  Maybe that would be best and to begin again with a new direction.  Certainly many nations would (apparently) be happier if the United States simply left the United Nations and, maybe that would be best.
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UNO, United Nations Organization