Headquarters, New York City
Official languages Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Membership 192 member states
Leaders
The Secretary-General is António
Guterres, appointed by the General Assembly on 13 October 2016 belongs to
Portugal
Establishment
United Nations Charter signed 26
June 1945
Entry into force of Charter 24
October 1945 Organization
Main article: United Nations
System
The United Nations system is
based on five principal organs
(formerly six – the Trusteeship
Council suspended operations
in 1994);[6] the General
Assembly, the Security Council,
the Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC), the Secretariat,
and the International Court of
Justice.
Four of the five principal organs
are located at the main
United Nations headquarters
located on international territory
in New York City. The
International Court of Justice is located
in The Hague, while other major
agencies are based in the
UN offices at Geneva, Vienna, and
Nairobi. Other UN institutions
Name——— Secertary
General—–From—To
1 Trygve Lie Norway 2
February 1946 10 November 1952
Resigned; First Secretary-General
from Scandinavia
2 Dag Hammarskjöld Sweden
10 April 1953 18 September 1961 Died while in office
3 U Thant Burma 30 November
1961 1 January 1972 First Secretary-General from Asia
4 Kurt Waldheim Austria 1
January 1972 1 January 1982
5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Peru 1 January 1982 1 January
1992 First Secretary-General from
South America
6 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Egypt 1 January 1992 1 January
1997 First Secretary-General from
Africa
7 Kofi Annan Ghana 1
January 1997 1 January 2007
8 Ban Ki-moon South Korea 1
January 2007 31 December 2016
9 António Guterres,
Portugal 1 January 2017 Incumbent
UNO Agencies
Agency
|
Estd. In
|
Headquarters
|
International Labour
Organization (ILO)
|
1919
|
Geneva
|
World Health Organization (WHO)
|
1948
|
Geneva
|
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
|
1946
|
Paris
|
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
|
1957
|
Vienna
|
United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
|
1946
|
New York
|
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
|
1950
|
Geneva
|
United Nations Fund for
Population Activities (UNFPA)
|
1967
|
New York
|
International Fund for
Agricultural Development
|
1977
|
Rome
|
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
|
1964
|
Geneva
|
International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO)
|
1947
|
Montreal
|
International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
|
1945
|
Washington D.C.
|
International Finance
Corporation (IFC)
|
1956
|
Washington D.C.
|
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
|
1947
|
Berne
|
United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP)
|
1972
|
Nairobi
|
United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO)
|
1967
|
Geneva
|
Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO)
|
1945
|
Rome
|
International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (IBRD)
|
1945
|
Washington D.C.
|
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO)
|
1950
|
Geneva
|
World Trade Organization (WTO)
|
1995
|
Geneva
|
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
|
New York
|
|
Inter Government maritime
Consultative Organization (IMCO)
|
1958
|
London
|
International Development
Association (IDA)
|
1960
|
Washington D.C.
|
International
Tele-communication Union (ITU)
|
1947
|
Geneva
|
United Nations Institute for
Training and Research (UNITAR)
|
1965
|
New York
|
United Nations Relief and Work
for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
|
1949
|
New York
|
United Nations Fund for
Population Activities (UNFPA)
|
1967
|
New York
|
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