The United Nations is an organization which has 193 member states that are generally recognised around the world.  On 24th June 1945, the 50 founding states, including Czechoslovakia, adopted the UN Charter, which was the basis for the establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco on 24th October 1945. The first permanent Czechoslovak representative to the UN was Ján Papánek, a Slovak diplomat and lawyer. The organization was intended to be a more effective replacement for the League of Nations which was founded after the First World War through the Treaty of Versailles. The significant representatives to the League of...