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United Nations Radio. United Nations Radio was created on 13 February 1946. In 2017, United Nations Radio and the UN News Centre merged to form UN News, producing daily news and multimedia content in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Swahili, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi. In its new iteration, UN News Audio continues to produce daily ...
League of Nations. The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] international organization with the intended purpose of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and serving as a center for coordinating the actions of member nations. [3]
itu.int. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) [Note 1] is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. [1] It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Union, significantly predating the UN and making it the oldest UN agency. [2]
The Board requested that UNESCO's Director-General bring the resolution to the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that World Radio Day could be endorsed by the General Assembly and celebrated by the whole system. The matter was subsequently treated by UNESCO's General Conference, which adopted the resolution in file 36 ...
The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) (prior to 1 January 2019, the United Nations Department of Public Information) [1] is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nations. It is tasked with raising public awareness and support of the work of the United Nations through strategic communications campaigns, media and ...
The United Nations maintains, administers or has a working relationship with a number of organisations dedicated to the administration of a variety of international treaties and conventions. At times these perform specific administrative functions while also providing a specific forum for discussing issues around a particular treaty.
Website. unic.un.org. The United Nations Information Centres (UNIC) were established in 1946, headquartered in New York, USA. [2] Spread across 63 countries worldwide. [3] These centers, until 2018, facilitated the exchange and sharing of current global events on behalf of the United Nations. Under the management of the Department of Global ...
The founding of the United Nations. The history of the United Nations has its origins in World War II beginning with the Declaration of St James's Palace. Taking up the Wilsonian mantle in 1944–1945, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed as his highest postwar priority the establishment of the United Nations to replace the defunct League ...