State any two objectives of the United Nations Organisation.

(1) To maintain international PEACE AND SECURITY, taking effective collective measures to prevent and remove threats to peace and settling disputes by peaceful means. (2) To achieve international CO-OPERATION in solving problems of an economic, social, cultural and humanitarian character, and to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion.

One mark each. These come from Article 1 of the UN Charter, and peace and security must come first, being the primary purpose. A third objective, if you need it: to develop friendly relations among nations based on equal rights and the self-determination of peoples. Founding facts worth a line: the UN came into existence on 24 October 1945, with headquarters in New York.