Comprehension check. 8. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:

8. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:

1. What is an international organization in legal sense?

2. What are the IOs created for?

3. What are the criteria for entering the international organizations?

4. What is the difference between IGO and NGO?

5. What do the IO differ in?

6. What does the IO membership base on?

7. What did the international organizations develop from?

8. What is the first IO?

9. What document defines the aims of the IO?

10. What are the IOs classified into?

11. What are the main objectives of UNO?

9. Read and give your own vision of the following statement made by Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Markus Tullius Cicero, Adolf Hitler, Peter Druckner, Norman Douglas.

Do you agree that ……

… The " new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all". – Nelson Mandela (the first African President, an anti-apartheid activist)

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” – Golda Meir (the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel)

“It is far easier to make war than to make peace.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero(a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist and Roman constitutionalist)

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”- Henry Van Dyke ( an American author, educator and clergyman)

" The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one” – Adolf Hitler(the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party – a Dictator of Germany)

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said”. – Peter Druckner(a writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist”)

" The biggest liar in the world is They Say”. – Norman Douglas (a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel “South Wind”)

10. You are a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the International Conference devoted to problems of UNO effectiveness in handling the international conflicts.