5. What do you think are the main roles of these organisations? Read the description of missions and match them to the appropriate organisations. a) Keeping the peace, developing friendly relationships among countries, and improving the quality of life for the world’s poor people. b) A group of countries that will protect each other in case of attack, they help keep peace and security around the world and help countries after a natural disaster. c) Help poor and middle-income countries get money to build improvements and reduce poverty d) Work to improve health around the entire world. e) Help people around the world: respond to disasters, run programmes in local communities, visiting prisoners of war. f) Gives loans to poor and developing countries to promote economic development. g) Help European countries avoid conflict by making them dependent on each other: create a single economy, act as a single voice in the world for, give aid to countries around the world.
READING 6. Do you know what international organisations Ukraine is a member of? What do you know about their cooperation? Read the article and check your ideas. Ukraine has formal relations with many nations and in recent decades it has been establishing diplomatic relations with an expanding circle of nations. The foreign relations of Ukraine are guided by a number of key priorities outlined in the foreign policy of Ukraine. 1) ___________. The most important step toward the accession of our country to the EU was WTO Membership. Since Ukraine became a member of the WTO, there have been a number of particular changes in Ukrainian legislation. The list of changes, which have been made in Ukrainian legislation since the state became a member of the WTO in May 16, 2008, includes creating a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU; bringing the standards of statistics, tax, pension, insurance, medical, educational, and other systems in accordance with European; political and military-political joining in the Euro-Atlantic structures. The World Trade Organization is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. 2) ___________. Trade-related disputes are resolved by independent judges at the WTO. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably, and freely as possible. Ukraine’s WTO membership provided necessary conditions and opened new prospects for the development of national economy. The Energy Community is an international organisation which brings together the European Union and its neighbours to create an integrated pan-European energy market. The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Energy Community signed in October 2005 in Athens, Greece, in force since July 2006. The key objective of the Energy Community is to extend the EU internal energy market rules and principles to countries in South Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region. 3) ___________. Ukraine has been a member of the Energy Community since February 1, 2011. Naturally, this status entails certain benefits as well as responsibilities. The Council of Europe is an international organisation whose stated aim is to protect, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe and to promote European unity by fostering cooperation on legal, cultural, and social issues. The Council of Europe is an official United Nations Observer. 4) ___________. Ukraine became the 37th member State of the Council of Europe on November 9, 1995.
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