The United Nations (B1 - B2)
Section outline
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The United Nations is an international organisation of countries. It was created for many reasons:
- There should be peace and security in the world after the Second World War.
- Countries should be friendly to each other.
- Countries should help each other solve problems.
- Human rights should be respected everywhere in the world.
After the Second World War the allied countries got together to discuss in which ways such an organization could be created. In 1945 50 countries got together in San Francisco and signed an agreement that created the United Nations. The United States invited the new UN to set up its headquarters in New York. The building was finished in 1952 and has been the permanent seat of the UN until today.
UN headquarters in New York
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via Wikimedia CommonsWords
- agreement = when two or more countries promise to do something
- allied countries = the countries that won the Second World War (the United States, France, the Soviet Union and Great Britain)
- headquarters = main offices
- human rights = one of the main rights that everyone in the world should have , like the right to say what you want etc..
- invite = here: allow
- peace = no war
- permanent = to exist forever
- security = the feeling of being safe
- should be respected = here: should exist
- sign = to put your name on a document
