The UN’s objective includes-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Preventing international conflict and facilitating cooperation among states.
Option (1) Promoting conflict between states’ escalating into war. — Incorrect. The UN was founded to stop conflicts between states escalating into war, not to promote them.
Option (2) Preventing international conflict and facilitating cooperation among states. — Correct. The UN’s objective is to prevent international conflict and to facilitate cooperation among states, and, if war breaks out, to limit the extent of hostilities.
Option (3) Encouraging nuclear armament for regional dominance. — Incorrect. Arming states for regional dominance would make war more likely, the reverse of the UN’s aim of peace; its agency IAEA in fact tries to prevent the military use of nuclear energy.
Option (4) Perpetuating the membership of P-6 in the Security Council permanently. — Incorrect. The Security Council has five permanent members, and keeping any membership forever is no objective of the UN.
NCERT (2025-26): “Evolution of the UN … It tried to achieve what the League could not between the two world wars. The UN’s objective is to prevent international conflict and to facilitate cooperation among states. It was founded with the hope that it would act to stop the conflicts between states escalating into war and, if war broke out, to limit the extent of hostilities.…” |