Tag: the united nations (u.n.)

• NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
• It is a Western organization which was set up in the year 1949 to promote collective security during the Cold War.
  

• The American leaders were suspicious of Stalin’s expansion plans. To deter the Soviet expansion, the US leaders formed the NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1949.
• In 1955, to rival NATO, Stalin and his Eastern European allies formed the Warsaw Pact.

• The Warsaw pact was introduced by Stalin to rival the NATO.
• It is an East European organization set up in 1955 to promote security during the Cold War.

India was a founding member of United Nation in October 1945.

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is headquartered at New York and currently made up of 193 Member States. The membership is open to all peace-loving countries.

UN employs Peacekeeping Forces to establish peace in an armed conflict-affected area. These forces can only be used when both the parties involved in conflict agree to their role and presence.

UN carries out humanitarian interventions through its Peacekeeping Forces. It follows three principles for humanitarian intervention: use of military force, interference in the state's internal affairs, and response to crises threatening the state's interests. The Security Council authorizes the use of military force.

The General Assembly is the principal deliberative, policymaking and representative UN body. Here decisions on important matters are taken by the two-thirds majority and on other matters by a simple majority.

• Known collectively as the Bretton Woods Institutions after the remote village in New Hampshire, U.S.A., where they were founded by the delegates of 44 nations in July 1944. The Bank and the IMF are twin intergovernmental pillars supporting the structure of the world's economic and financial order.