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UNO

• The name United Nations coined by Franklin D Roosevelt.

• UN officially come into existence on 1945 October 24

• The total number of members in UNO is 193

• The most powerful organ of UNO is Security Council

• There are 5 permanent members in the UN Security Council

• The Security Council is charged with maintaining peace and security among countries

• The Secretary of the Security Council prepares the budget of the UN

• The first Secretary General of UNO is Trygve Lie, he was the first Secretary General of UN who was re-elected

• The first UN Secretary General to get Nobel Prize is Dag Hammarskjold

• Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the only Indian to be elected as the President of UN General Assembly

• The UN Secretary General is also known as first Civil Servant in the World

• The UN’s University is in Tokyo

• USA is the largest contributor to the UN budget

• In 1945 October 30 India become a member of UN

• The main deliberative assembly of UN is General Assembly

• General Assembly is known as the Parliament of Nations

• The forerunner of the United Nations is League of Nations

• Arabic was the last language given the status of official language in UN

• Total number of official languages used in UNO is 6

• The working languages of UNO are English and French

• The smallest member in UNO is Monaco

• Korean War is the first war UN intervened

• The UN’s University of Peace is at Costa Rica

• The constitution of UN is known as Charter

• The UN HQ in New York is in Manhattan island

• UPU, the organ of UN is the Worlds only organization permitted to issue postage stamps

• The non permanent members of UN are elected by the General Assembly by 2/3 majority two year terms

• Official house of UN Secretary : Sutton Place, Manhattan

Common Wealth Nations

• Common Wealth countries are mainly the former colonies of British Monarch

• The HQ of Common Wealth is Marlborough House in London

• The member of Common Wealth that is not a former British colony is Mozambique

• The continent that has largest number of Common Wealth members is Africa

• The first country to quit the Common Wealth is Ireland

• The Common Wealth day is observed on May 24

• The total membership of the Common Wealth is 54

NAM

• V K Krishna Menon put forward the idea of NAM

• It was founded in 1961 at Bandundu

• First summit held at Belgrade

• NAM doesn’t have a fixed HQ

• The founding fathers of NAM are Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdul Nazar of Egypt and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.

• The basic principle of NAM collectively known as Pancha Sheel

• NAM formally comes into being in 1961 September

• First NAM held at Belgrade

• The first secretary general of NAM : Josip Prostito (Yugoslavia)

• The Secretary General of NAM : Harsan Ropuhani (Iran)

• Last joined members of NAM : Eastern Timor and St. Vincent Grenadians

• In 1983 Delhi hosted a NAM summit

• 16th NAM 2014 : Tehran (Iran)

• 17th NAM 2015 : Karakas (Venezuela)

Poits to Remember

• WTO was officially commenced on 1995 January 1

• Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by Peter Barenson

• ‘It is better to light a candle than a curse darkness’ is the famous motto of Amnesty International

• The word Amnesty means ‘An act of general pardon’

• The HQ of Asian Development Bank is Manila

• The first Indian to become a Judge in International Court of Justice : B N Rao

• The tenure of Judge in ICJ is 9 years

• The HQ of ICJ is Peace Palace in Hague

• WHO established in 1945

• APEC was formed in 1989

• WWF (World Wide Fund) was founded on 11th September 1961 at Morges

• Giant Pande is the animal symbol of WWF

• Hentry Dunant founded Red Cross in 1863

• 100th Indian Science Congress held at Kolkata

• First World Ocean Congress was held at Kochi

• Jean Claude Juncker was the newly elected president of European Union

• TRIPS and TRIMS are the terms associated with WTO

• The HQ of ISO is located at Geneva

• The total number of members in ASEAN is 10