Concert of Nations (AMPU)

The Concert of Nations (CN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. The organization was established on 24 October 1946 after The Second Thirty Years War with the aim of preventing another such conflict. At its founding, the CN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the CN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.