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Summary
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.
It was established on 26 June 1945 and operations became effective on 24 October 1945.
It has 192 member states. These are all represented in the General Assembly.
Related Bodies and Agencies
Aim & Objectives
To function as the primary deliberative organ of the UN.
The aim of the UN is to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
The UN's programme priorities have been summarized under these headings [Bibliography item md2005 not found.]
- A. Maintenance of international peace and security
- B. Promotion of sustained growth and sustainable development
- C. Development of Africa
- D. Promotion of human rights
- E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance
- F. Promotion of justice and international law
- G. Disarmament
- H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism
- I. Gender equality and empowerment of women
- J. Research and training institutes
Core Values
What values matter for these actors.
Activities
A resolution of the General Assembly, or of other organs, may contain a mandate that grants authority and responsibility to the Secretary-General or other implementing entities in the system to implement the request.
An electronic inventory of mandates originating from the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council is available at http://webapps01.un.org/mandatereview/searchStart.do (updated until 2005)
The implementing entities to which a mandate may be directed are listed here:
http://webapps01.un.org/mandatereview/processSearch_implementing.do?requestedForm=display_implementing&display_implementing=%3E&skipValidation=
