es: refers to those less developed countries
with the potential for above-average economic growth; see less
developed countries (LDCs)

undeveloped countries: refers to those extremely poor less developed
countries (LDCs) with little prospect for economic growth; see least
developed countries (LLDCs)

United Nations (UN): established - 26 June 1945; effective - 24
October 1945

aim - to maintain international peace and security and to promote
cooperation involving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian
problems

constituent organizations - the UN is composed of six principal organs
and numerous subordinate agencies and bodies as follows:

1) Secretariat

2) General Assembly: International Research and Training Institute for
the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), United Nations Center for Human
Settlements (Habitat), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations
Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Drug Control Program
(UNDCP), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), United Nations Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR), United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice
Research Institute (UNICRI), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development (UNRISD), and United Nations University (UNU), World Food
Program (WFP)

3) Security Council: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),
United Nations Compensation Commission, United Nations Disengagement
Observer Force (UNDOF), United Nations Interim Administration Mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK), United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),
United Nations Iraq/Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission, United
Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), United Nations
Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), United Nations
Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), United Nations
Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), United Nations Mission in
Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
(UNAMSIL), United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevla