Stories from the United Nations Archives: How the United Nations was founded amid the ashes of war
We’ll take you back to the summer of 1945, when leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree on an international treaty to protect the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. jar.
This resulting treaty, unchartedis the founding document of the United Nations, pledging to save future generations from the scourge of war.
Watch United Nations video Stories from the United Nations Archives The passage about the founding of the United Nations is below:
Plotting the way forward
Delegates agreed on the new United Nations Charter and Statutes. International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization on June 26, 1945. Listen to the UN Radio Classics report, revisiting that day a decade later:
All delegates signed the Charter of the United Nations, which entered into force on 24 October 1945.
For more than 75 years since its founding, the United Nations has maintained international peace and security, protected human rights, provided humanitarian aid, supported sustainable development and action on climate change, and upheld international law.
The United Nations Charter sets out the key principles of a rules-based multilateral order, from the sovereign equality of states to the prohibition of the use of force in international relations.
Thus, the United Nations can act on a wide range of issues due to its unique international nature and the powers provided for in its Charter, which is considered an international treaty. Thus, the United Nations Charter is an instrument of international law and the member states of the United Nations are bound by it.
Minerva Bernardino, delegate of the Dominican Republic, signed the United Nations Charter on June 26, 1945. (file)
Stories from the United Nations archives
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The seventy-third session of the General Assembly pays tribute to the late Secretary-General Kofi Annan. (file)
