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.

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 ):

" 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

Collectively, these thematic clusters define the programme space within which the UN University undertakes its academic activities.

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.

The resolution gave ITU the leading managerial role to organize the event in cooperation with other UN bodies as well as the other international organizations and the host countries and recommended that preparations for the Summit take place through an open-ended intergovernmental Preparatory Committee – or PrepCom – that would define the agenda of the Summit, decide on the modalities of the participation of other stakeholders, and finalize both the draft Declaration of Principles and the draft Plan of Action.

The joint ISO / UN Core Components Technical Specification formally define both the allowed set of representation terms and the corresponding set of data types.

The mission of the Alliance originates from the first and eight UN Millennium Development Goals ; reducing the number of people that suffer from hunger in half by 2015 ( preceded by the “ Rome Declaration ” in 1996 ) and developing a global partnership for development.

* Araujo, Robert John, “ The UN Declaration on Human Cloning: a survey and assessment of the debate ,” 7 The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 129-149 ( 2007 ).

May 6, 2003, the UN Security Council ( Resolution 1478 ) decided to an embargo also on Liberian “ round logs and timber products ”.

The UN mediator Matthew Nimetz proposed another form several months afterward, proposing that the name “ Republika Makedonija ” should be used by the countries that have recognized the country under that name and that Greece should use the formula “ Republika Makedonija – Skopje ”, while the international institutions and organizations should use the name “ Republika Makedonia ” in Latin alphabet transcription, but this form was rejected by Greece.

Morocco protested the proposed referendum and took its case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which ruled that despite historical “ ties of allegiance ” between Morocco and the tribes of Western Sahara, there was no legal justification for departing from the UN position on self-determination.

In December 2009, the UN General Assembly amended the UNU Charter to make it a requirement for UNU to “ grant and confer master ’ s degrees and doctorates, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions under conditions laid down for that purpose in the statutes by the Council .”

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.

Among the speakers was Canadian social activist and author Naomi Klein and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who firmly said in his talk, “ We are going to go to the UN to declare that water is a basic public need that must not be managed by private interests, but should be for all people, including people of rural areas .” The Forum was at first plagued with logistical problems, as a number of events had to be canceled at the last minute because of a lack of space, and a student strike against the policies of President Abdoulaye Wade in Diop University interrupted some scheduled plenaries.

In its public annual report to the UN secretary general ( presented to the UN General Assembly ), the OIOS reported concerning the case that it had “ submitted a report to the Secretary-General supporting the allegations and recommended that appropriate actions be taken accordingly .”

" He added “ that the only two other persons in the room did not provide evidence confirming the version given by the complainant .” Furthermore he accused UN officials of leaking information to the press and recommended that an investigation of the leaks be undertaken.

Article 98 further states that the Secretary-General is further tasked with supervising the operations of the Security Council, General Assembly, and the Economic and Social Council and is to “ perform other such functions as are entrusted to him by these organizations ” In short, this gives him or her the further responsibility of presiding over the meetings of these organs of the UN.

Barak told the UN General Assembly: “ an independent, strong, thriving and peaceful State of Israel is the vengeance of the dead.

1284, which led the Iraqi regime to reject the resolution because they saw the resolution as a way for the UN to claim Iraq as a “ protectorate .”

A tendency exists of taking matters in own hands and start smaller private initiatives to perform specifications much faster avoiding the UN “ all agree ” slow culture.

The general and slow UN “ all in ” policy makes such issues easier to solve but it is definitely a topic to work on.

The commission was given evidence of the Italian policy of systematic terrorism and Graziani ’ s self-admitted intention to execute all Amharas authorities, and cited a telegram from Graziani to General Nasi, in which he had written, “ Keep in mind also that I have already aimed at the total destruction of Abyssinian chiefs and notables and that this should be carried out completely in your territories .” The UN commission agreed that there was a prima facie case against eight Italians including Graziani.

* John F. Kennedy: After Hammarskjöld's death, U. S. President John F. Kennedy regretted that he opposed the UN policy in the Congo and said: “ I realise now that in comparison to him, I am a small man.

In December 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of Veneman, “ She has fulfilled her mandate with immense dedication, and I have been impressed by her extraordinary energy and determination to improve children ’ s health, education and well-being around the world.

Furthermore, it does not have a UN mandate, and instead it is an “ intergovernmental organization set up with the sole purpose to perform its mandate, which is based on a bilateral agreement signed by the Israelis and Palestinians .” The advantage of this arrangement is that without being linked to any external organizations, the TIPH serves only to perform its mandate.

The WJC lobbies international organizations, notably the United Nations, to ensure that governments “ apply the same standards to Israel when judging its actions compared with those of other countries .” The WJC states on its website that “ Israel should not be singled out for criticism by countries which do not themselves adhere to the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law ” and that “ Israel needs to be treated fairly in international organizations, especially in United Nations bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council .”