UN

Question 1

UN aim:

Answer 1

To maintain international peace and security

Question 2

How does UN maintain international peace and security:

Answer 2

Disarmament program

Question 3

Resolution 2118:

Answer 3

September 2013

Question 4

Resolution 2118 prohibits:

Answer 4

Prohibits Syria from using, developing, producing and otherwise aquiring, stockpiling or retaining chemical weapons, or transferring them to other states or non-state actors.

Question 5

Ban-Ki Moon:

Answer 5

Resolution 2118 is “the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time”

Question 6

UN has failed to disarm:

Answer 6

Assad, rebel groups and non-state actors (ISIS)

Question 7

Syrian Crisis has caused:

Answer 7

470,000 deaths and 61.2 million refugees in 2016

Question 8

Security Council:

Answer 8

Passed a resolution (December 2015) that targets ISIS’ finances

Question 9

Russian UN envoy Churkin:

Answer 9

the UN is attempting to “enforce a framework to … disrupt illegal financing of ISIS

Question 10

Treaty to disarm nuclear powers:

Answer 10

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 11

North Korea becomes nuclear power:

Answer 11

2008

Question 12

UN sanctions on North Korea:

Answer 12

December 2016, reduce North Korea’s export earning of coal by 60%

Question 13

Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN:

Answer 13

“no resolution in New York will persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons”

Question 14

IEP:

Answer 14

“ISIS is effectively acting as a state”