NYC UN Headquarters

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Security Council Meeting
NYC - UN Headquarters
General Assembly Room
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UN

• Established 1945
• Member nations 192 (today)
• Some agencies World Health Organization and
  World Bank
• Not members Vatican City / Palestine / Taiwan
  a few others
• UN Security Council (was 11, now 15)
• permanent members China, Russia, France,
  Britain, U.S. (veto power)
• 10 rotating members

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UN

• Official languages Arabic, Chinese, English,
  French, Russian, Spanish
• Major contributors to the regular UN budget
  (2001) US (22), Japan (19.5), Germany (10),
  France (6.5), UK (5.5), Italy (5) US is
  600M in arrears
• The UN Secretary-General is to be appointed
  by the General Assembly on the
  recommendation of the Security
  Council (currently Ban Ki-moon
  from South Korea in 1st
  5-year term)
• The Interpreter (2005) is the first movie ever
  filmed inside the UN General
  Assembly Security Council rooms. Other
  movies have only used the exteriors or were
  filmed when the buildings were under
  construction.