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Security Council
The Security Council is charged with maintaining peace and security among countries. The Security
Council has the power to make binding decisions which are known as United Nations Security Council
resolutions.
The Security Council is made up of 15 member states, consisting of 5 permanent members – China,
France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – and 10 non-permanent members (currently
(2010) Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey, and
Uganda). The five permanent members hold veto power over substantive but not procedural resolutions
allowing a permanent member to block adoption but not to block the debate of a resolution unacceptable to
it. The ten temporary seats are held for two-year terms with member states voted in by the General
Assembly on a regional basis. The presidency of the Security Council is rotated alphabetically each month.

Secretariat
The United Nations Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General, assisted by a staff of international
civil servants worldwide. It provides studies, information, and facilities needed by United Nations bodies for
their meetings. It also carries out tasks as directed by the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly,
the UN Economic and Social Council, and other UN bodies.
The Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General, who acts as the de facto spokesman and leader of
the UN. The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, after being recommended by the
Security Council. There are no specific criteria for the post, but over the years it has become accepted that
the post shall be held for one or two terms of five years, that the post shall be appointed on the basis of
geographical rotation, and that the Secretary-General shall not originate from one of the five permanent
Security Council member states. The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon.

International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, Netherlands, is the primary judicial
organ of the United Nations. Its purpose is to adjudicate disputes among states. The court has heard cases
related to war crimes, illegal state interference and ethnic cleansing, among others, and continues to hear
cases. It settles legal disputes between states and gives advisory opinions to the UN and its specialized
agencies.

Trusteeship Council
The Trusteeship Council was established in 1945 by the UN Charter to provide international
supervision for 11 Trust Territories placed under the administration of 7 Member States, and ensure that
adequate steps were taken to prepare the Territories for self-government and independence. By 1994, all
Trust Territories had attained self-government or independence. Its work completed, the Council has
amended its rules of procedure to meet as and where occasion may require.

Economic and Social Council
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), established by the UN Charter, is the principal organ to
coordinate the economic, social and related work of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and
institutions. Voting in the Council is by simple majority; each member has one vote.

Grammar exercises

І. Make up Present Participle (Participle I). to get, to put, to take, to give, to stand, to do, to come, to
drive, to
know, to leave, to translate, to read, to play

ІІ.Translate Present Participle into English.
читаючий, співаючий, розмовляючий, малюючий, гуляючий,
будуючий, мріючий, ведучий, стрибаючий, граючий, літаючий

ІІІ. Make up your own sentences
calling me
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