Newscenter Media News The United Nations (UN) was established shortly after the Second World War in 1945 by the major victorious powers in that war, namely: USA, USSR (now Russia), UK, France and China. They became the sole members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and later the only permanent members and veto-wielding powers in the Council! It was obviously expected that these five major powers would mould themselves into a monolith of sorts that would run the UN with single-mindedness and firmness, to prevent another major war on planet earth. But the arrangement was not to endure largely because the spectre of concentration of power
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