UN founded

Argentina
 Byelorussian SSR →  Belarus
 Brazil
 Chile
China (seat held by the  Republic of China) → China (seat transferred to the  People's Republic of China) (Resolution 2758)
 Cuba
 Czechoslovakia → dissolved (current UN members that formerly comprised Czechoslovakia:  Czech Republic and  Slovakia)
 Denmark
 Dominican Republic
 Egypt →  United Arab Republic (period when merged with  Syria) →  Egypt
 El Salvador
 France
 Haiti
 Iran →  Islamic Republic of Iran
 Lebanon
 Luxembourg
 New Zealand
 Nicaragua
 Paraguay
 Commonwealth of the Philippines →  Philippine Republic →  Philippines
 Poland
 Saudi Arabia
 Soviet Union →  Russia (successor state)
 Syria →  United Arab Republic (period when merged with  Egypt) →  Syrian Arab Republic
 Turkey
 Ukrainian SSR →  Ukraine
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
 United States of America
 Yugoslavia → dissolved (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) current UN members that formerly comprised Yugoslavia:  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Republic of Macedonia,  Montenegro,  Serbia, and  Slovenia
25 October 1945
 Greece
30 October 1945
 India
31 October 1945
 Peru
1 November 1945
 Australia
2 November 1945
 Costa Rica
 Liberia
5 November 1945
 Colombia
7 November 1945
 Mexico
 Union of South Africa →  South Africa
9 November 1945
 Canada
13 November 1945
 Ethiopia
 Panama
14 November 1945
 Bolivia →  Bolivia (Plurinational Republic of)
15 November 1945
 Venezuela →  Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
21 November 1945
 Guatemala
27 November 1945
 Norway
10 December 1945
 Netherlands
17 December 1945
 Honduras
18 December 1945
 Uruguay
21 December 1945
 Ecuador
 Iraq
27 December 1945
 Belgium

UN, head of

Trygve Lie

Dag Hammarskjöld

U Thant

Kurt Waldheim

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Kofi Annan

Ban Ki-moon

ECOSOC (UN coordinated)

Observer Inter-Governmental Autonomous Organizations

Participation on a continuing basis:

• African Regional Centre of Technology
• Asian and Pacific Development Centre
• Asian Productivity Organization
• Council of Arab Economic Unity
• Global Water Partnership
• Helsinki Commission
• Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
• Intergovernmental Institution For the Use of Micro-Algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition
• International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions
• International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
• Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Latin American Energy Organization
• Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
• Union des Conseils Économiques et Sociaux Africains
• West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)
• World Deserts Foundation
• World Tourism Organization

Participation on an ad hoc basis:

• African Accounting Council
• African Cultural Institute
• Arab Security Studies and Training Center
• Council of Arab Ministers of the Interior
• International Bauxite Association
• International Civil Defence Organisation
• Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
• Functional commissions
• UN Commission for Social Development
• UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR): disbanded 2006, replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly
• Commission on Narcotic Drugs
• Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
• Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)
• Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) - Disbanded 2013, replaced with High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development a joint subsidiary boy of the General Assembly and ECOSOC
• UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW)
• Commission on Population and Development
• UN Statistical Commission
• United Nations Forum on Forests
• Regional commissions
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Specialized agencies

These specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other inter alia through the coordinating machinery of the Economic and Social Council

• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Bank Group
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
• International Development Association (IDA)
• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Universal Postal Union (UPU)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS)
• International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Other related entities, mechanisms and processes
• Financing for Development, the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration
• Development Cooperation Forum
• United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
• Sessional and Standing Committees Expert, ad hoc and related bodies
• United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

UN grouped

1 Food and Agriculture Organization  Rome Italy
2 International Atomic Energy Agency  Vienna Austria
3 International Civil Aviation Organization  Montreal Canada
4 International Fund for Agricultural Development  Rome Italy
5 International Labour Organization Geneva Switzerland
6 International Maritime Organization  London United Kingdom
7 International Monetary Fund  Washington D.C. United States
8 International Telecommunication Union Geneva Switzerland
9 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization  Paris France
10 United Nations Industrial Development Organization Austria Vienna
11 World Tourism Organization Madrid Spain
12 Universal Postal Union  Bern Switzerland
13 World Bank Group  Washington D.C. United States
14 World Food Programme  Rome Italy
15 World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland
16 World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva Switzerland
17 World Meteorological Organization    Geneva Switzerland

UN spoken

The six official languages used in intergovernmental meetings and documents are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

UN Touched

Which brings us to the United Nations. Established 24th October 1945, this is the preeminent intergovernmental organisation. If ever there was an organisation that said all the right things and made the right moves, it has to be the UN.

Sure, it's the latest in an 'all-in' approach to make sure we can still go about our business but it's much more than that. If nothing else, you can see the ideas that are formulated when the majority of the planet have to broadly agree.

Its main opposition is among the jingoists and 'love it or leave it' patriots who are susipicious of having their soverignty and sense of superiority compromised.

But let's not worry about them too much.

The success of the UN is there for all to see. Beginning as a means of preventing a repeat of the (second world) war they'd just come out of, it has gone on to encompass multiple facets and has gone from a founding 51 to the 193 member states it now has.

The UN has its headquarters in Manhattan  New York with other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna. They have extraterritoriality.

The United Nations was formulated and negotiated among the delegations from the Soviet Union, the UK, the US and China in Dumbarton Oaks Conference [Wikipedia] The UN Conference on International Organization was attended by 50 governments and a number of non government organisations who together drafted the United Nations Charter.

The first meetings of the General Assembly and the Security Council took place in Methodist Central Hall Westminster.

The United Nations' system is based on five principal organs: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice. A sixth , the Trusteeship Council, suspended operations in 1994, upon the independence of Palau, the last remaining UN trustee territory.

The International Court of Justice is based in the Hague.

The General Assembly is the main deliberative body and consists of all member states. It is comprised of

• General Committee - the supervisory committee
• Credentials Committee 
• First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
• Second Committee (Economic and Financial)
• Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural)
• Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)
• Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary)
• Sixth Committee (Legal)

Palaszczuk's him out

It looks as though we have our second one term conservative state government. First Victoria, now Queensland. Bye bye Campbell Newman. Hello Annastacia Palaszczuk.