Article: Bangladesh: Keeping Faith with the United Nations

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Keeping Faith with the United Nations

When the United Nations Charter was signed at San Francisco on June 24, 1945, humanity was emerging into the uncertain dawn of a new age after the mind-boggling death and destruction of the second World War. Reflecting the shift from an age of imperialism to one in which governments professed broadly democratic concerns, the Preamble to the Charter begins with the words 'We the peoples of the United Nations' as opposed to the opening reference to 'The High Contracting Parties' in its precursor, the Covenant of the League of Nations. The great mandate of the new global organisation is human welfare, betterment of the quality of ...

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