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0 United Nations

Founded in 1945 with 51 members, the United Nations now
numbers 193 nations. Its aims are to preserve world peace, to
promote self-determination, and to aid economic and social
well-being around the globe. New York was chosen as the UN
headquarters, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated $8.5 million
for the purchase of the site. The chief architect was American
Wallace Harrison, who worked with an international Board of
Design Consultants, and completed the core complex of the
site between 1948 and 1952. The 18-acre (7-ha) site is an
international zone, with its own stamps and post office.
A $1.9-billion renovation of the
complex, approved by the UN’s
General Assembly in 2006, was
completed in 2015.

United Nations headquarters

. Security Council
Delegates and their assistants confer
around the horseshoe-shaped table,
while verbatim reporters and other
UN staff members sit at the long
table in the center.

KEY
1 Economic and Social Council
2 Trusteeship Council
3 The Conference Building
houses meeting rooms for the
Security Council, the Trusteeship
Council, and the Economic and
Social Council.
. Peace Bell
4 Secretariat building Cast from the coins of 60 Rose Garden
5 The statue of peace was a gift nations, this gift from Japan Twenty-five varieties of roses
from the former Yugoslavia. hangs on a cypress pagoda adorn the manicured gardens
shaped like a Shinto shrine. on the East River.

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