English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

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To 
establish
5
friendly relations between 
countries.
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To work together to improve people’s lives by 
conquering
6
poverty, disease, 
illiteracy
7
and 
environmental destruction, and to encourage 
respect for each other’s rights and freedoms.
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To be a centre for supporting nations in 
achieving these goals.
In other words, the UN stresses the importance of 
negotiation
8
when there are disagreements 
between countries. It is opposed to 
injustice
9
and 
upholds
10
the rights of 
minorities
11
but it will 
only support military 
intervention
12
if its Security Council agrees that this is 
justified
13
.
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formed (used about an off icial organisation)
2
all people
3
time when it was 
established [founded]
4
try to achieve (
pursue
with this meaning collocates with words like 
aim
, 
goal
, 
career
, 
strategy
)
5
set up, 
put in place
6
beating, getting rid of
7
inability to read or write
8
discussions in an attempt to reach 
an agreement
9
unfairness
10
supports
11
groups of people who diff er racially or in some other way 
from most of the people in the place where they live (
minority
collocates with adjectives like 
ethnic
, 
religious
, 
oppressed
)
12
involvement in a diff icult situation in order to improve it
13
caused by a good reason
Political movements
A political