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UN Day is marked today

24 October 2011 09:28 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Azer Mustafayev â€“ APA. Today is the day of official beginning of UN activity. The United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations in 1945 in order to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems after the World War Two.

On 25 April 1945, the UN Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco, attended by 50 governments and a number of non-governmental organizations involved in drafting the United Nations Charter. The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945 upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Councilâ€”France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United Statesâ€”and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and the Security Council, took place in Westminster Central Hall in London in January 1946.