United Nations

(http://www.un.org/)

The United Nations is an international organization bringing together 193 states of the world.

The UN's main objective is to maintain international peace and security and, for this purpose, to take effective collective action to prevent threats to peace, to eliminate threats to it and to counter any of the acts of attack or other violations of peace, and to implement, in accordance with the principles of justice and international law, peaceful means to correct or resolve disputes or situations which could lead to a breach of peace.

The High Representative shall be the Secretary-General of the Republic of Korea, Mr Pan Ki-moon, appointed by the General Assembly on the basis of a recommendation from the Security Council for a five-year term of office.

The main bodies of the UN include the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Board of Appeal and the International Court of Justice.

The Slovak Republic was accepted as a member of the UN on 19 January 1993 as one of the successor states of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR). The Slovak Republic's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (http://www.mzv.sk/unnewyork). Currently he is special and authorized ambassador and permanent representative of the Slovak Republic to the UN in New York František Ružička.

• Representation of the health department in UN organisations
• Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)