<span style="color: #222222;">Today is United Nations Day. On this day in 1945, the UN Charter entered into force. The United Nations is an intergovernmental organisation whose primary role is to maintain world peace and security.<br />” <br />” The name was coined by the President of the United States &nbsp;Franklin D. Roosevelt and was first used in the Declaration of the United Nations on January 1, 1942, during the Second World War. The UN had 51 members at the time of its establishment. It is currently made up of 193 Member States.<br />”<br />”As a founding member of the United Nations, India strongly supports the purposes and principles of the UN and has made significant contributions in implementing the goals of the Charter, and the evolution of the UN's specialised programmes and agencies.</span>