United Nations United Nations - a global organization, which was founded in 1945. It brings together almost all countries of the world. Internationally he is known by the acronym UNO or UN.

constitutional documents for a new global organization became the UN Charter, adopted June 26, 1945 at an international conference in San Francisco. Behind the official founding date is regarded October 24, 1945, when the Charter was ratified by a majority of the signatory countries, including Czechoslovakia. This day is annually celebrated as United Nations Day.

New organization significantly supported Rockefeller Fund, which donated land and money to build a headquarters building in New York. The highest body of the UN General Assembly, which first meeting on January 10, 1946. The executive body is then the UN Security Council, which is involved in matters of international peace and security. One of the principal organs of the organization is the United Nations Secretariat, headed by the UN Secretary General. The very first man in this position was a British diplomat and politician Gladwyn Jebb, however, that in February 1946, replacing the Norwegian Trygve Halvdan Lie. In 2007 the office as the eighth Secretary-General took Ban Ki-Moon, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea.

The organization manages a global information network. In Prague was opened one of the first of these institutions already in 1947. Today, Information Centre for the Czech Republic based on Prague's Kinsky Square.