Go to Media BankOpening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 24The transfer of the UN headquarters from the United States is hardly realistic given the financial costs for these purposes, however, individual events through the organization, including the General Assembly, can be held in third countries, Washington is clearly not coping with its duties, the vice speaker told RIA Novosti on Monday Council of Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev. The Russian political party «Communists of Russia» proposed to move the headquarters of the organization from New York to Moscow in memory of the victory of the USSR in World War II, chairman of the party Sergei Malinkovich told RIA Novosti.
The UN repeats the mistakes of the League of Nations, said in Donetsk «The transfer of the headquarters itself is hardly realistic, given the huge financial costs that such a decision would entail,» the senator said. But the transfer of UN events from the United States to third countries, «up to the meetings of the General Assembly, in my opinion, is overdue and would be in the interests of the organization itself, given that the United States is clearly not coping with its duties as the country hosting its headquarters Kosachev said. Obligations specifically stipulated in the current agreement between the UN and the United States, he concluded. UN Day is celebrated annually on October 24th. On this day in 1945, the charter of the organization was approved. During the Second World War, the leading members of the anti-Hitler coalition developed the foundations for the activities and structure of the UN. The name «United Nations» was first used in the Declaration of the United Nations signed on January 1, 1942. In 1945, after the end of World War II, representatives of 50 countries gathered in San Francisco (USA) for a United Nations conference to create an international organization to develop a UN charter. The delegates based their work on proposals developed by representatives of Great Britain, China, the USSR and the USA at the international conference of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition in the Dumbarton Oaks mansion in Washington in August-October 1944. The charter was signed on June 26, 1945 by representatives of 50 countries. Poland, not represented at the conference, signed it later and became the 51st founding state. Now 193 countries are members of the UN. In July 2011, South Sudan became the 193rd UN full member. Washington proposes to destroy the world order
