Does this suggest that the Congo is fit for nationhood or that UN is making any progress whatever toward its goal of so making it??

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

Right now, they are pushing a resolution which would have UN use its forces to invade and subjugate Katanga.

Tel Aviv, in fact, in 2004 was named to the list of world heritage sites by the UN due to its abundance of Bauhaus architecture ;< ref >

This called upon Belgium to remove its troops and for the UN to provide ' military assistance ' to the Congolese forces to allow them ' to meet fully their tasks '.

Disagreements over what the UN force could and could not do continued throughout its deployment.

Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies ; it is also a member of the OAS.

Ecuador's principal foreign-policy objectives have traditionally included defense of its territory from both external aggression and internal subversion as well as support for the objectives of the UN and the OAS.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

Fiji's contributions to UN peacekeeping are unique for a nation of its size.

Finland is well represented in the UN civil service in proportion to its population and belongs to several of its specialised and related agencies.

Gabon is a member of the UN and some of its specialized and related agencies, including the World Bank ; Organization of African Unity ( OAU ); Central African Customs Union ( UDEAC / CEMAC ); EC association under Lome Convention ; Communaute Financiere Africaine ( CFA ); Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ); Non-Aligned Movement ; withdrew from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ).

Ghana has been extremely active in international peacekeeping activities under UN auspices in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and the Balkans, in addition to an eight-year sub-regional initiative with its ECOWAS partners to develop and then enforce a cease-fire in Liberia.

Idris as-Senussi, the Emir of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and the leader of the Senussi Muslim Sufi order, represented Libya in the UN negotiations, and on 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence with representatives from Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan declaring a union with the country being called the United Kingdom of Libya, and Idris as-Senussi being offered the crown.

According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.

The United States used its veto in the UN Security Council to block the proposal to lift the sanctions because of the continued failure of Iraq to verify disarmament.

Resolution 1441 was passed unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 8, 2002, offering Iraq " a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations " that had been set out in several previous UN resolutions, threatening " serious consequences " if the obligations were not fulfilled.

By then Israel had retained its independence and increased its land area by almost 50 % compared to the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

The General Assembly cannot make binding resolutions, only ' recommendations ', but through its adoption of the " Uniting for Peace " resolution ( A / RES / 377 A ), of 3 November 1950, the Assembly declared that it has the power to authorize the use of force, under the terms of the UN Charter, in cases of breaches of the peace or acts of aggression, provided that the Security Council, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, fails to act to address the situation.

This category includes the United Nations ( UN ) and its specialized agencies, the Universal Postal Union, Interpol, the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), the World Customs Organization ( WCO ), and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

Since the end of the war, Jordan has largely restored its relations with Western countries through its participation in the Middle East peace process and enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq.

One of the earliest mentions of the acronym " NGO " was in 1945, when the UN was created.

Although there were accusations of human rights abuses, the OAS / UN International Civilian Mission in Haiti, known by the French acronym MICIVIH, found that the human rights situation in Haiti improved dramatically following Aristide's return to power in 1994.

By February 24, 2000, the UN authorized a force of 5, 537 troops, the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( known by the French acronym, MONUC ), to monitor the cease-fire.

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.

The UN does not keep official death-by-hunger statistics so it is hard to measure whether the " hundreds of millions of deaths " number is correct.

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 ):

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