Page 2 - LN- UN and its Organisations

General Assembly and Security Council. In the General

Assembly all members have one vote each. In the Security

council, there are five permanent members. These are ; US, UK,

Russia, France and China, who enjoy Veto Power. The UN's

representative head is Secretary General.

5. The UN consists of many specialised agencies to deal with

social and economic issues like WHO, UNDP, UNHRG, UNHCR,

UNICEF, and UNESCO to work in an efficient manner and

to bring world together.

6. After the Cold War some of the changes occurred which

affected the functioning of the UN i.e. collapse of Soviet Union,

emergence of China and India as rising powers, entry of

new members, and confrontations with the challenges like

genocide, civil war, ethnic conflict, terrorism, nuclear

proliferation etc.

7. They faced two kinds of reforms over the time i.e. reform of

organisations structure and processes and a review of the

issues that fall within the jurisdiction of UN as why veto