Best Concise notes on United Nations for RRB(NTPC) June-2025

Concise notes on United Nations for RRB(NTPC) June-2025. Here are some one-liner objective notes for last-minute revision for competitive exams, based from different websites on the United Nations Organization:

Concise notes on United Nations

• The First World War encouraged the investment in an international organisation to deal with conflict, leading to the League of Nations.
• The League of Nations could not prevent the Second World War.
• The UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations immediately after the Second World War.
• The UN’s objective is to prevent international conflict and to facilitate cooperation among states.
• The United Nations Charter is the founding document of the UN.
• The UN Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco.
• The UN Charter came into force on 24 October 1945.
• The United Nations was established on 24 October 1945.
• The UN aims to maintain international peace and security.
• Dag Hammarskjold was the UN’s second Secretary-General.
• The UN Headquarters are in New York City.
• The Official Languages of the UN are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
• The United Nations is neither a supra-State nor a government of governments.
• The United Nations has six principal organs.
• The six principal organs are the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat.
• All six principal organs were established under the UN Charter in 1945.
• The General Assembly is the main deliberative, policy making and representative organ of the UN.
• The General Assembly is the only body which includes representatives from all member countries.
• In the General Assembly, each member country has one vote.
• The General Assembly elects a GA President yearly for a one-year term.
• The Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.
• The Security Council is composed of 15 Members.
• The Security Council has Five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• The Security Council has ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly.
• Permanent members have permanency and the veto power.
• A non-permanent member cannot be re-elected immediately after completing a term of two years.
• The UN Security Council “veto power” belongs to the five permanent members to veto any “substantive” resolution.
• The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
• The International Court of Justice Headquarters are at The Hague, Netherlands.
• The ICJ is the only principal organ not located in New York.
• The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council.
• The Economic and Social Council has 54 Members elected yearly for overlapping three-year terms by the General Assembly.
• The Economic and Social Council is the principal body for coordination, policy review, and recommendations on economic, social and environmental issues.
• The Secretariat comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international UN staff members.
• The Secretary-General is the chief administrative officer of the Organization.
• The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council for a five-year, renewable term.
• The First Secretary-General of the United Nations was Trygve Lie (Norway).
• The Trusteeship Council was established to help ensure trust territories were administered in their inhabitants’ best interests.
• The Trusteeship Council was formed in 1945.
• The Trusteeship Council suspended its operations on 1 November 1994 after the independence of Palau.
• UN specialized agencies coordinate their work with the United Nations through negotiated agreements.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters is in Rome, Italy, founded in 1945.
• The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Headquarters is in Montreal, Canada, founded in 1947.
• The International Labour Organization (ILO) Headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1919.
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Headquarters is in Washington, D.C., United States, founded in 1947.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Headquarters is in Paris, France, founded in 1946.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1948.
• The World Bank Group Headquarters is in Washington, D.C., United States, with IBRD founded in 1945, IDA in 1960, and IFC in 1956.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters is in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1957.
• The IMF oversees international financial institutions and regulations.
• As of 1 September 2021, the IMF had 190 member countries.
• In the IMF, the top ten countries have more than 52 per cent of the votes.
• The US alone has 16.75 per cent voting rights in the IMF.
• The World Bank was created in 1945 and focuses on developing countries.
• The World Bank works for human development, agriculture, environmental protection, infrastructure, and governance.
• The IAEA was established in 1957 to implement US President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” proposal.
• The IAEA seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and prevent its use for military purposes.
• IAEA teams regularly inspect nuclear facilities worldwide.
• The Atlantic Charter was signed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston S. Churchill in August 1941.
• The Declaration by United Nations was signed by 26 Allied nations in January 1942.
• The Yalta Conference of the ‘Big Three’ (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin) in February 1945 decided to organise a UN conference.
• The United Nations Conference on International Organisation was held in San Francisco from April-May 1945.
• The UN Charter was signed by 50 nations on June 26, 1945.
• Poland signed the UN Charter on October 15, making the UN have 51 original founding members.
• The UN was founded on October 24, 1945.
• October 24 is celebrated as UN Day.
• India joins the UN on October 30, 1945.