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    The document summarizes the key roles and responsibilities of the main organs of the United Nations: 1) The General Assembly may consider and make recommendations on international peace and security issues, initiate studies, and elect non-permanent Security Council members. 2) The Security Council is responsible for maintaining international peace and security, investigating disputes, recommending dispute resolutions, imposing sanctions, and recommending new UN members. 3) The Economic and Social Council coordinates the UN's economic, social, and humanitarian work, and formulates policy recommendations in these areas.

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    The document summarizes the key roles and responsibilities of the main organs of the United Nations: 1) The General Assembly may consider and make recommendations on international peace and security issues, initiate studies, and elect non-permanent Security Council members. 2) The Security Council is responsible for maintaining international peace and security, investigating disputes, recommending dispute resolutions, imposing sanctions, and recommending new UN members. 3) The Economic and Social Council coordinates the UN's economic, social, and humanitarian work, and formulates policy recommendations in these areas.

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    The document summarizes the key roles and responsibilities of the main organs of the United Nations: 1) The General Assembly may consider and make recommendations on international peace and security issues, initiate studies, and elect non-permanent Security Council members. 2) The Security Council is responsible for maintaining international peace and security, investigating disputes, recommending dispute resolutions, imposing sanctions, and recommending new UN members. 3) The Economic and Social Council coordinates the UN's economic, social, and humanitarian work, and formulates policy recommendations in these areas.

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    According to the Charter of the United Nations, the General Assembly may:

    { Consider and make recommendations on the general principles of cooperation for


    maintaining international peace and security, including disarmament;
    { Jiscuss any question relating to international peace and security and, except where a
    dispute or situation is currently being discussed by the Security Council, make
    recommendations on it;
    { Jiscuss, with the same exception, and make recommendations on any questions within
    the scope of the Charter or affecting the powers and functions of any organ of the
    United Nations;
    { ¦nitiate studies and make recommendations to promote international political
    cooperation, the development and codification of international law, the realization of
    human rights and fundamental freedoms, and international collaboration in the
    economic, social, humanitarian, cultural, educational and health fields;
    { ëake recommendations for the peaceful settlement of any situation that might impair
    friendly relations among nations;
    { eceive and consider reports from the Security Council and other United Nations
    organs;
    { Consider and approve the United Nations budget and establish the financial
    assessments of ëember States;
    { lect the non-permanent members of the Security Council and the members of other
    United Nations councils and organs and, on the recommendation of the Security
    Council, appoint the Secretary-General.

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    { to maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles and
    purposes of the United Nations;
    { to investigate any dispute or situation which mightlead to international friction;
    { to recommend methods of adjusting such disputes or the terms of settlement;
    { to formulate plans for the establishment of a system to regulate armaments;
    { to determine the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression and to
    recommend what action should be taken;
    { to call on ëembers to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the
    use of force to prevent or stop aggression;
    { to take military action against an aggressor;
    { to recommend the admission of new ëembers;
    { to exercise the trusteeship functions of the United Nations in "strategic areas";
    { to recommend to the GeneralAssembly the appointment of the Secretary-General and,
    together with the Assembly, to elect the Judges of the ¦nternational Court of Justice.
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    COSOC was established under the United Nations Charter as the principal organ to
    coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies,
    functional commissions and five regional commissions. The Council also receives
    reports from 11 UN funds and programmes. The conomic and Social Council
    (COSOC) serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and
    social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to ëember
    States and the United Nations system. ¦t is responsible for:

    { promoting higher standards of living, full employment, and economic and social
    progress;
    { identifying solutions to international economic, social and health problems;
    { facilitating international cultural and educational cooperation; and
    { encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

    ¦t has the power to make or initiate studies and reports on these issues. ¦t also has the power to
    assist the preparations and organization of major international conferences in the economic
    and social and related fields and to facilitate a coordinated follow-up to these conferences.
    With its broad mandate the Council's purview extends to over 70 per cent of the human and
    financial resources of the entire UN system.

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    The ¦nternational Court of Justice (¦CJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United
    Nations (UN). ¦t was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began
    work in April 1946.

    The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). Of the six principal
    organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York (United States of
    America).

    The Court¶s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to
    it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized
    United Nations organs and specialized agencies.

    The Court is composed of 15 judges, who are elected for terms of office of nine years by the
    United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. ¦t is assisted by a egistry, its
    administrative organ. ¦ts official languages are nglish and French.

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    The Secretariat ² an international staff working in duty stations around the world ² carries
    out the diverse day-to-day work of the Organization. ¦t services the other principal organs of
    the United Nations and administers the programmes and policies laid down by them. At its
    head is the Secretary-General, who is appointed by the General Assembly on the
    recommendation of the Security Council for a five-year, renewable term.
    The duties carried out by the Secretariat are as varied as the problems dealt with by the United
    Nations. These range from administering peacekeeping operations to mediating international
    disputes, from surveying economic and social trends and problems to preparing studies on
    human rights and sustainable development. Secretariat staff also inform the world's
    communications media about the work of the United Nations; organize international
    conferences on issues of worldwide concern; and interpret speeches and translate documents
    into the Organization's official languages.

    As of 30 June 2010, the Secretariat had some 44,000 staff members around the world1.

    As international civil servants, staff members and the Secretary-General answer to the United
    Nations alone for their activities, and take an oath not to seek or receive instructions from any
    Government or outside authority. Under the Charter, each ëember State undertakes to respect
    the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the Secretary-General and the
    staff and to refrain from seeking to influence them improperly in the discharge of their duties.

    The United Nations, while headquartered in New York, maintains a significant presence in
    Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Beirut, Geneva, Nairobi, Santiago and Vienna, and has offices all
    over the world.

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    The Trusteeship Council suspended operation on 1 November 1994, with the independence of
    Palau, the last remaining United Nations trust territory, on 1 October 1994. By a resolution
    adopted on 25 ëay 1994, the Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to
    meet annually and agreed to meet as occasion required -- by its decision or the decision of its
    President, or at the request of a majority of its members or the General Assembly or the
    Security Council.

    Background

    ¦n setting up an ¦nternational Trusteeship System, the Charter established the Trusteeship


    Council as one of the main organs of the United Nations and assigned to it the task of
    supervising the administration of Trust Territories placed under the Trusteeship System.
    ëajor goals of the System were to promote the advancement of the inhabitants of Trust
    Territories and their progressive development towards self-government or independence.
    TheTrusteeship Council is made up of the five permanent members of the Security Council --
    China, France, ussian Federation, United Kingdom and United States. The aims of the
    Trusteeship System have been fulfilled to such an extent that all Trust Territories have
    attained self-government or independence, either as separate States or by joining
    neighbouring independent countries.

    Functions and powers

    Under the Charter, the Trusteeship Council is authorized to examine and discuss reports from
    the Administering Authority on the political, economic, social and educational advancement
    of the peoples of Trust Territories and, in consultation with the Administering Authority, to
    examine petitions from and undertake periodic and other special missions to Trust Territories.

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