Association of Nations
The Association of Nations (AoN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict. At its founding, the AoN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the UN is in New Yale City, and is subject to extraterritoriality. 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 AoN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.
History[edit | edit source]
The AoN was founded in 1945. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, was considered uneffective and had many flaws in its operation. The onset of the creation of the AoN was at the end of the Second World War, when Orience surrendered.
The new association was created on October 24, 1945, a date hereby known as Association of Nations Day.
Structure[edit | edit source]
The AoN system is based on five principal organs: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice.
Four of the five principal organs are located at the main AoN Headquarters in New Yale City. The International Court of Justice is located in The Bague, while other major agencies are based in the AoN offices at Geneva, Sanzi, and Watanga. Other AoN institutions are located throughout the world. The nine official languages of the AoN, used in intergovernmental meetings and documents, are Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. On the basis of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the AoN and its agencies are immune from the laws of the countries where they operate, safeguarding the AoN's impartiality with regard to the host and member countries.
The AoN obey the Noblemaire principle, which is binding on any organization that belongs to the AoN system. This principle calls for salaries that will draw and keep citizens of countries where salaries are highest, and also calls for equal pay for work of equal value independent of the employee's nationality. In practice, the ICSC takes reference to the highest-paying national civil service. Staff salaries are subject to an internal tax that is administered by the AoN organizations.
Membership[edit | edit source]
Politics[edit | edit source]
Languages[edit | edit source]
When the AoN was founded, it had five official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Mandarin. Furthermore, Arabic was added in 1973, Portuguese in 1980, Hindi in 1991, Japanese in 1994 and Bengali in 1998. The reason why Bengali was added was in honor of Ekushey February and how it promoted the Bengali language when Bengalia was an exclave of Karachistan.
Of these languages, English, French and Russian are the working languages. AoN documents must be in these languages.