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The UN is involved in supporting pecekeeping missions, e.g. by the formulation of the Millennium Development Goals. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest multilateral source of granting assistance in the world. Organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, and The Global Fund are the leading institutions of the UN. The UN Population Fund is a major provider of reproductive services.

The UN also promotes help through various related agencies. The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF), for example, are independent, specialized agencies and observers within the UN framework, according to a 1947 agreement. They were initially formed as separate from the UN through the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944.

The UN annually publishes the Human Development Index (HDI), a comparative measure ranking countries by poverty, life expectancy and other factors.

The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. This was declared in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000.

XII. Make up the dialogue discussing the peacekeeping missions of the UN to achieve peace in the world.

Unit 1.2.

The UN in Russia





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