To this end, it strives at all times to promote world understanding, cooperation and peace among nations based on human dignity and universal friendship.

It provides appropriate information to assist in the dissemination of the workings of the United Nations; designed to enhance inter-cultural understanding within the country as well as international understanding, cooperation and peace through the annual celebration of the United Nations Days and Observances, to attain a peaceful, progressive and developed Philippines.

To carry out its purposes, the UNAP shall: According to UNAP President Emeritus Judge Aurora Navarette-Reciña, "The award was conceived 67 years ago by the late General Carlos P. Romulo to encourage people from all sectors of society to be role models in advocacy programs or endeavors that will put the country into the world map and give them due recognition for their greatness."

The United Nations Association of the Philippines aims to award those who have made Filipinos proud in their diverse achievements personally and professionally and, like CPR, contributed to world peace and development.

"In my blood runs the immortal seed that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance,” thus reads what may be then United Nations General Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo’s most celebrated speech, “I am a Filipino.