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UNEP was created by the General Assembly in 1972 following the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and its headquarters at Nairobi made it the first United Nations body to be seated in a developing country, a point examiners like.

She presided over the eighth session of the General Assembly in 1953, the first woman to hold that office, and she had already led the Indian delegation to the United Nations in its earliest years; she was also the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and later India envoy to Moscow, Washington…

Palau, in the Pacific, was the last of the eleven trust territories placed under the international trusteeship system, administered by the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; it became independent on 1 October 1994, and the Trusteeship Council suspended its operations on 1 November…

The judges of the International Court of Justice are elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council voting independently of each other, a candidate needing an absolute majority in both, and five seats fall vacant every three years so that the bench is renewed in thirds.

The Security Council has fifteen members in all: five permanent members, namely China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms, five of them retiring each year, with a retiring member not immediately re-eligible.

The FAO was founded on 16 October 1945 at Quebec City, and World Food Day has been observed on that anniversary since 1981; the agency has its headquarters at Rome and runs the global work on hunger, nutrition and food statistics.

It was founded at Paris in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union to standardise telegraphy across borders, took its present name in 1932 as radio and telephony were added, moved to Geneva, and became a specialised agency of the United Nations in 1947; it now allocates the global radio spectrum…

Set up in 1957 with its headquarters at Vienna, the IAEA is an autonomous intergovernmental organisation that reports to the General Assembly and, when nuclear safeguards are at issue, to the Security Council; the United Nations describes it as a related organisation, not a specialised agency, because it was not…

The Court sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands, where it took over the premises of the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations era.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has had its headquarters in Paris since it began work; its constitution was adopted in November 1945 and came into force in November 1946, and it is the agency that maintains the World Heritage List.

The Charter entered into force on that day, once the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of the other signatories had ratified it, and the day is observed every year as United Nations Day.

The Charter of the United Nations establishes six principal organs: the General Assembly, in which every member state has one vote; the Security Council, which carries the primary responsibility for international peace and security; the Economic and Social Council; the Trusteeship Council; the International Court of Justice; and the Secretariat.

The green pheasant, which is found only in Japan, was designated its national bird by the country's ornithological society, and the bird appears in Japanese folk tales as a companion of the boy hero Momotaro.

The flag of Nepal is made of two stacked triangular pennants, the upper carrying a white moon and the lower a white sun, and its proportions are laid down by a geometrical construction in the constitution, which makes it unique among national flags.

Scotland has used the unicorn in its royal arms since the fifteenth century, reading it as a symbol of purity and of a strength that cannot be captured, and it is the only mythical animal among the national animals usually asked.

The beaver was given official standing as a symbol of Canada because the fur trade in beaver pelts drove the early European exploration and settlement of the country, and the animal appears on the five-cent coin.

The king protea is the largest flower of the protea family, which grows in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape, and South Africa's national cricket team takes its name from it.

The markhor lives in the mountain ranges of the north and west of the country, and its spiralled horns make it easy to recognise in a picture-based question.

The takin is a heavily built goat-antelope of the eastern Himalayas, and Bhutan ties it to a legend about a saint who joined the head of a goat to the bones of a cow.

Nepal declares the cow its national animal, and the choice follows from its religious standing in the country.