What is Asean? Asean is Association of Southeast Asian Nations and it is an organization of countries in Southeast Asia set up to promote cultural,economic and political development in the region.The original five members included Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Since its formation, ASEAN has been growing slowly, and more countries in the region have gained membership. Through co-operation the goal of the organization is to increase the welfare of the people in the region, both economically and culturally. Asean commands far greater influence on Asia-Pacific trade, political, and security issues than its members could achieve individually. This has driven ASEAN’s community building efforts. This work is based largely on consultation, consensus, and cooperation.The ASEAN flag represents different meanings which blue represents peace and stability, red represents courage and dynamism, white represents purity, and yellow represents prosperity.The stalks in the middle represents the ten members in the ASEAN and lastly all the colours represent the main colour of all ten ASEAN member state

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What is United Nations? The United Nations is an international organisation whose aims is to promote and facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms, democracy, and the achievement of lasting world peace.The organisation has six principal organs:the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly); the Security Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security),the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (for assisting in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development); the Secretariat (for providing studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN); the International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ); and the United Nations Trusteeship Council (which is currently inactive). Other prominent UN System agencies include the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).The work of the United Nations reaches every corner of the globe. Although best known for peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance, there are many other ways the United Nations and its System (specialized agencies, funds and programmes) affect our lives and make the world a better place. The Organization works on a wider range of fundamental issues and more, in order to achieve its goals and coordinate efforts for a safer world for this and future generations.The flag represents different things and some of it such as the olive branches represent a symbol of peace and the white and blue represent the official colours of the United Nations and the globe in the middle represent the globe that is bisected in the centre by the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line.

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