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Official narrative
A forum for peaceful discussion and working out of differences without using force. It was set up after WW2.
Structure
The two main organs of the UN are the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly. The former has a smaller membership - 15 members only, including five permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK & USA). The permanent members have veto powers, and the security council's approval is needed for resolutions involving military force.
A Document by UN
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:UN-Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict-2010.pdf | report | 2010 | Afghanistan/2001 Invasion |
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| UN agency | autonomous organizations which work with the United Nations |
| UN/SC | The military arm of the UN. It is able to change rules in the UN Charter, and is able as only UN entity to send or deploy the military of the UN and its permanent members to countries. It hasn't proved to be very consistent and is often in a stalemate because of veto powers and deep lobbying. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza | “UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said after a key Hamas operations center was discovered right beneath his headquarters that he had no idea. That's absurd. There was a very advanced tunnel with electrical cables, which supplied a Hamas server center with power. That came directly from UNRWA's electricity grid. Moreover, a few years ago, UNRWA staff noticed that an entire parking lot above it was starting to subside. So what do you mean, we couldn't have known anything?” | Hillel Neuer | 2024 |
| Walter Cronkite | “It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace....To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order...We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation....Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law - a democratic federal world government -to deal with world problems.” | Walter Cronkite | 19 October 1999 |
| UNRWA | “UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said after a key Hamas operations center was discovered right beneath his headquarters that he had no idea. That's absurd. There was a very advanced tunnel with electrical cables, which supplied a Hamas server center with power. That came directly from UNRWA's electricity grid. Moreover, a few years ago, UNRWA staff noticed that an entire parking lot above it was starting to subside. So what do you mean, we couldn't have known anything?” | Hillel Neuer | 2024 |
| Joris Voorhoeve | “Take into account that 2/3ds of UN member states are no democracy, also take into count that quite a number of states are run by criminal organisations. Colonialism did not end, it took a different form.” | University of Leiden Joris Voorhoeve | 12 April 2016 |
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernt Carlsson | UN/Assistant Secretary-General | 1 July 1987 | 21 December 1988 | |
| Bernt Carlsson | UN/Commissioner for Namibia | 1 July 1987 | 21 December 1988 | |
| Andrew Cordier | Undersecretary in Charge of General Assembly and Related Affairs | 1946 | 1961 | Facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba |
| Ban Ki-moon | UN/Secretary-General | 1 January 2007 | 31 December 2016 | |
| Nader Mousavizadeh | Political officer | 1997 | 2003 | Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan |
| Mohamed Chande Othman | Eminent Person | 2017 | ||
| Mohamed Chande Othman | Head of UN Panel of Experts | 2015 | 2017 | |
| Francis Sanziri | UN/DOF/Head | 22 October 2017 | 19 April 2019 | Suffered a fatal heart attack |
| David Veness | Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security | 2008 |
Known members
191 of the 192 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | "The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors. |
| Albania | A small country in Southeastern Europe. |
| Algeria | A nation on the Mediterranean Sea. The largest country in Africa, formerly colonised by France. |
| Andorra | A micro state in Europe. An enclave between France and Spain. |
| Angola | South West African state |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, formerly part of the British Empire. |
| Argentina | Second biggest country in South America. |
| Armenia | Small Eurasian nation; formerly part of the USSR |
| Australia | A large island nation in the southern hemisphere which is pioneering universal surveillance of its citizenry. |
| Austria | German-speaking republic in Central Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Austria has become increasingly westernised. |
| Azerbaijan | A former part of the USSR. |
| Bahrain | Oil rich Arab nation, formerly part of the British Empire. |
| Bangladesh | 8th most populated country in the world. Formerly part of the British Empire. |
| Barbados | Scenic Caribbean island nation. Formerly part of the British Empire |
| Belarus | "Europe's last dictatorship" - Formerly part of the USSR. Outspoken opposition to the COVID-19 lockdown agenda. |
| Belgium | Former European colonial power |
| Belize | The only Central American country which is a Commonwealth realm. |
| Benin | French speaking country in West Africa. |
| Bhutan | Very small country in the Eastern Himalayas. A constitutional monarchy which has Buddhism as the state religion. |
| Bolivia | Mountainous country in South America. Formerly part of the Spanish Empire. |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | small nation in the Balkans. |
| Botswana | Country in Southern Africa. Formerly part of the British Empire, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. |
| Brazil | Very large and not particularly populous country which has made a priority of biofuels. |
| Brunei | Small kingdom in South-East-Asia |
| Bulgaria | The poorest country in the European Union. |
| Burkina Faso | African country; formely part of the French Empire. |
| Burundi | Very small African nation, formerly part of the Belgian Empire. Their president died under mysterious circumstances during COVID. |
| Cambodia | A Buddhist nation in Indochina. |
| Cameroon | West African state |
| Canada | If tar sands are counted, Canada possesses the 3rd largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Cape Verde | African island nation. Independence from Portugal in 1975. |
| Central African Republic | Unstable, poor African country. They speak Sango and French in the CAR. |
| Chad | Arabic and French speaking desert nation in North Africa. Formerly part of the French Empire, Chad has seen instability in recent years. |
| Chile | Spanish-speaking MEDC in South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. |
| China | The most populous nation state in the world |
| Colombia | Colombia is an important state in the trafficking of cocaine to North America. |
| Comoros | Obscure island nation off the east coast of Africa. A nation formed at a crossroads of different civilisations, The Comoros is noted for its diverse culture. |
| Costa Rica | An armyless country between Nicaragua and Panama |
| Croatia | Formerly part of Yugoslavia, Croatia is westernising at a rapid rate, with membership of the European Union and NATO being achieved relatively quickly after independence. |
| Cuba | The only country in North America under the influence of the USSR during the cold war. |
| Cyprus | A small, divided, island in the Mediterranean. Greek Cyrpus was aggressively pushing the COVID-19/Vaccine in May 2021. |
| Czech Republic | Formerly communist, central European nation. |
| Côte d'Ivoire | The Ivory Coast. |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | A large country in central Africa, the majority of the former 'Belgian Congo'. |
| Denmark | Member of the EU, NATO. |
| Djibouti | small country in East Africa. |
| Dominican Republic | Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. |
| East Timor | An island country in Southeast Asia. |
| Ecuador | Offered asylum to Julian Assange. |
| Egypt | Strategically important due particularly to the Suez canal. |
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Event Planned
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| "Smart city" | A prison-city with an algorithm as warden |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Serious Questions about the Integrity of the UN Report on Syria | paper | 5 October 2013 | Subrata Ghoshroy | A detailed and scholarly study of the evidence presented in the UN special report on the use of Chemical weapons in Ghouta, Syria on 21 August 2013 and a similar report by 'Human Rights Watch' based largely on it. It is a damning indictment of the manner in which UN reports on sensitive matters and the entire HRW organisation are effectively suborned to Western geo-political purposes. |
| Document:Time to Start Paying Attention: The US Just Bombed Russians in Syria | Article | 9 February 2018 | Darius Shahtahmasebi | It is not clear if Russia has a retaliation of its own in mind, but we would do well to remember that when similar incidents took place last year, Russia indicated that they would begin targeting US jets if they had to. Almost immediately after this stark warning, Australia pulled its planes out of its air missions in Syria. |
| Document:UN Charter | historical document | 26 June 1945 | 51 member countries | |
| Document:UN Secretary-General invokes Article 99 on Gaza | Article | 6 December 2023 | Al Jazeera | "Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the UN Security Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared." |
Documents sourced from UN
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Ahmadinijad UN Statement 2011 | statement | 9-11 US | 22 September 2011 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | |
| File:A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf | report | Assassination | 28 May 2010 | The UN Special Rapporteur reports on "targeted killings" by states. | |
| File:Company-Occupied territories trading.pdf | Database | Israel Palestine Israeli occupied territories | 12 February 2020 | UN/Human Rights Council | Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| File:Leaked-UN-Plan-for-Post-Gadhafi-Libya.pdf | memo | Libya | 9 August 2011 | An internal UN memo on the plan for UN involvement in 'post-conflict' Libya. It was obtained and first published by Innercitypress.com on 29 August 2011. Its authenticity is not verified but its contents indicate that it probably is a genuine UN document. | |
| File:UN HRC Gaza Freedom Flotilla.pdf | report | Israel/Defense Forces 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla | 1 October 2010 | UN Human Rights Council | The report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance |
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