ABSTRACT
The United Nations (UN) was formally established on 25 June 1945 with the approval of the Charter of the United Nations during a conference of 50 countries held in San Francisco in the final months of World War II. However, the UN, which was intended to replace the League of Nations as a universal, intergovernmental organization (IGO) devoted to promoting and preserving international peace and security, had its origins at a conference of the foreign ministers of the US, USSR, China, and Britain on 30 October 1943 in Moscow. The foreign ministers signed a declaration at the end of the conference that proposed the establishment “at the earliest practicable date a general international organization.”
