The hope of the world lies in the United nations Organization.
It alone can save the world from the horrors of a Therms-nuclear war. If the U.NO.
Goes the way of the League of Nations, the world will go down the gap of a
volcano. It will burn and burst like a big bomb.
The U.N.O was born after the Second World War on
24 th October 1945 after the signing of the Atlantic Charter. Every year 24 th
October is celebrated as the U.N. Day throughout the world.
The J.J.N.O was a committee of nations. The
original need was for a world body to strive and keep peace in the world after
the end of the Second World War. The brains behind the big move were the Big
Three --- Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. A conference was called at San
Francisco which was attended by all the Allied Powers. It prepared a charter of
international peace --- the Atlantic Charter. Ironically enough. The Atlantic
Charter was hammered home on the Pacific coast of San Francisco!
The first committee of the L NO. Was the Security
Council. It had five permanent members -- the U.S.A. Russia. United Kingdom.
France and Nationalist China --- who are equally vested with the right of veto
over any question, so that unless and until all these five Powers agreed upon a
question, it could not be, carried through in the Security Council. That
precedent continues right up to now. Only that China is not the Communist China
represented there, but the China of Chiang Kali-sheik in Formosa. The seating of
Communist China and the unseating of Formosa has been one of the most burning
topics in the U.N.O.
The other units of the U.N.O. are the General
assembly. The Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice
and Trusteeship Council. Each member-nation is represented on the General
Assembly but the Security Council has only 11 members of which the five are
permanent and the rest are elected by the General Assembly by rotation.
Another wings is the International Court of Justice
appointed by’ the General Assembly at The Hague. One of the most popular wings
of the U.N.O is U.N.E.S.C.O. (United Nations Education. Scientific and Cultural
organization) which is head quartered at Paris. The U.N.O. itself has its
headquarters at New York.
The U.N.O shares great responsibilities without
having equally great powers. It has done a solid job in Korea, Undo China, Suez
and the Congo in preventing major international conflicts and maintaining peace
and order in the afflicted countries. Pakistani troops have played a great part
in all these theatres of conflict and clash. In other fields, the U.N.O means
freedom from ignorance and disease also. It takes care of the handicapped
children throughout the world. Now it has more than one hundred nations as its
members. Its secretariat is in New York. The head of the U.N.O. is U Than.
Burmese national. Each member-nation contributes its share of the expenses of
the U.N.O. -- the big powers; however, pay more than the small nations.
It has been proposed that the U.N.O. should have an
army of its own and it should also be entrusted with legislative powers for the
whole world. But this dream is still to be realized. The U.N.O. has become a
hot-bed of politics. Only the sanity in the world leaders can save this organizations
as well as the humanity.