The IAEA as an autonomous organization is not under direct control of the UN, but the IAEA does report to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

Like its predecessor, the UN does not have its own standing armed forces, but calls on its members to contribute to armed interventions, such as during the Korean War and the peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.

Since the UN does not maintain its own military, peacekeeping forces are voluntarily provided by member states of the UN.

The UN does not define “ racism ”; however, it does define “ racial discrimination ”: According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.

** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

* April 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.

A similar principle has appeared in the recent decades with regard to crimes of genocide ( see genocide as a crime under domestic law ); and UN Security Council Resolution 1674 " reaffirms the provisions of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity " even if the State in which the population is being assaulted does not recognise these assaults as a breach of domestic law.

When the ICC President reported to the UN regarding its progress handling these crimes against humanity case, Judge Phillipe Kirsch said " The Court does not have the power to arrest these persons.

In addition, the position of PRC is that the ROC does not meet the fourth criterion of the Montevideo Convention, as it is recognized by only and has been denied access to international organizations such as the UN.

The following are the UN member states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations ( period of former relations marked in parenthesis ):

" UN " in its acronym does not stand for United Nations.

In these cases, peacekeepers remain members of their respective armed forces, and do not constitute an independent " UN army ", as the UN does not have such a force.

Article 97 of the UN Charter states that the Secretary-General shall be the " chief administrative officer " of the Organization, but does not dictate his specific obligations.

This affects some law enforcement where UN rules override the laws of New York City, but it does not give immunity to those who commit crimes there.

In 2001, Dmitriy Rogozin proposed moving the headquarters to St. Petersburg due to America's failure to pay its dues to the UN, saying " If the position of the Americans does not change and if as a result the international civil servants working in New York feel ever more uncomfortable, I think we will raise the question of moving the central UN headquarters to the ' Venice of the North ,' St. Petersburg ," During the period where the UN was facing delays in its efforts to refurbish its existing buildings, alternative sites considered as temporary sites also included the World Trade Center site being proposed as a new permanent facility.

* Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have biological weapons program

Guyana has sought to keep foreign policy in close alignment with the consensus of CARICOM members, especially in voting in the UN, OAS, and other international organizations.

Conservative think-tanks in Washington had for years been urging regime change in Baghdad, but until the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, official US policy was to simply keep Iraq complying with UN sanctions.

Article 51 of the UN Charter guarantees the right of states to defend themselves until ( and unless ) the Security Council takes measures to keep the peace.

The United Nations was also soon developed after World War II to help keep peaceful relations between nations and establishing the veto power for the permanent members of the UN Security Council, which included the United States.

Still, he was of opinion that it was worthwhile to keep the UN in shape because it was the sole international organisation which offered opportunities for discussions between all states.

His efforts towards the decolonisation of Africa were considered insufficient by the Soviet Union ; in September 1960, the Soviet government denounced his decision to send a UN emergency force to keep the peace.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN defines IPM as " the careful consideration of all available pest control techniques and subsequent integration of appropriate measures that discourage the development of pest populations and keep pesticides and other interventions to levels that are economically justified and reduce or minimize risks to human health and the environment.

Although the UN Arms Register tries to keep track of major weapons holdings, there is no global reporting system for small arms.

The UN reported that with so much energy required to keep warm there was a danger of people starving to death.

World governments and the UN try to keep tight control over them to prevent leakage of artifacts from the Zones, fearful of unforeseen consequences.

Following the evacuation the main aims were to keep control of the airport, patrol Freetown and allow UN supplies to be flown in to the country safely.

Finally, in the 2004 edition of the Factbook, the name of the entry was changed back to Macedonia, following a November 2004 US decision to refer to the country using this name, even though the official appelation of the republic within the UN remains FYROM.

In Resolution 425, the UN had set a goal of assisting the Lebanese government in a " return of its effective authority in the area ", which would require an official Lebanese army presence there.

As the UN grounds for the effective execution of international law ( such as International Court of Justice ) and UN represents international character for a state after World War II ( such as United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council ), consequently, a majority of the aligned countries during Cold War in the Western world camp decided to terminate official diplomatic relations to ROC and recognize People's Republic of China instead.

In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into " official relations " with WHO and are invited as observers.

** Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official

In September 2008, APA ’ s members passed a resolution stating that psychologists may not work in settings where “ persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law ( e. g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions ) or the U. S. Constitution ( where appropriate ), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights .” The resolution became official APA policy in February 2009.

The Istanbul Protocol, an official UN document, is the first set of international guidelines for documentation of torture and its consequences.

On 17 September 1948, UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, and Colonel André Serot while on an official tour of duty to Jerusalem were murdered " in cold blood ... in the Katamon quarter of Jerusalem by Jewish assailants.

A UN official said these stories were untrue.

A poster for the Marshall Plan displaying national flags of Western European countries, including one for Trieste, with a blue background, official color of the UN.

Another notable job of the Secretariat is their duty of translating speeches and documents into the UN ’ s official languages.

* The Beatles For Cultural Diversity-project, which takes the part in the official campaign of UNESCO and the UN: Do One Thing For Diversity and Inclusion.

One factor of importance is that official standard organisations like UN / CEFACT, ISO etc.

In difference to most other business and trade standard committees the UN / CEFACT is an official standard organisation and not a vendor interest group.

UN / CEFACT as an UN intergovernmental official organisation and the connection with ISO makes its specifications unquestionable in procurement procedure demands.

During the period in which the British withdrawal was completed, Britain refused to share the administration of Palestine with a proposed UN transition regime, to allow the UN Palestine Commission to establish a presence in Palestine earlier than a fortnight before the end of the Mandate, to allow the creation of official Jewish and Arab militias or to assist in smoothly handing over territory or authority to any successor.

In fact in 2005, the US Ambassador at the UN complained that the incumbent, as a ' civil servant ', was not authorized to act upon information ( in this case world wide press reports on abnormal detention forms in the ' war against terrorism ' suspected to breech the rights of the suspects ) not obtained by the organisation's official channels.

Syria has at times supported Lebanon's claim that the Shebaa Farms are part of Lebanon and not Syrian territory, at the UN and in official government press releases.

However, on January 21, 2006, the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad stated in a speech before the convention of the Arab Lawyers Union in Damascus and translated into English by SANA, the official state news agency of Syria that there are two legal requirements for demarcating the border: first, the complaint must be registered with the UN ; and second, engineers must precisely define the border.

Medical examination, performed by the initial Rhodesian Board of Investigation and reported in the UN official report, indicated that the wounds were superficial, and that the bullets showed no signs of rifling.