In addition, UN sanctions against Serbia ( 1992 – 95 ) and Iraq took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

In addition, UN sanctions against Serbia ( 1992 – 95 ) and Iraq took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

With the progressive lifting of UN and US sanctions from 2003 – 2008, the two countries have been working together to jointly develop their oil and natural gas industries.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for sanctions against those involved in Guinea-Bissau's drugs trade.

During the latter part of the 1990s the UN considered relaxing the sanctions imposed because of the hardships suffered by ordinary Iraqis.

According to UN estimates, between 500, 000 and 1. 2 million children died during the years of the sanctions.

The United States used its veto in the UN Security Council to block the proposal to lift the sanctions because of the continued failure of Iraq to verify disarmament.

Conservative think-tanks in Washington had for years been urging regime change in Baghdad, but until the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, official US policy was to simply keep Iraq complying with UN sanctions.

On May 23, 2003, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution lifting all economic sanctions against Iraq.

In rare cases, the Security Council can adopt resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, related to " threats to Peace, Breaches of the Peace and Acts of Aggression ," which are legally binding under international law, and can be followed up with economic sanctions, military action, and similar uses of force through the auspices of the United Nations.

After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a very poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.

In public, Jordan continued to call for the lifting of UN sanctions against Iraq within the context of implementing UNIC resolutions.

Since the end of the war, Jordan has largely restored its relations with Western countries through its participation in the Middle East peace process and enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq.

Lesley Stahl asked, regarding the effects of UN sanctions against Iraq, " We have heard that a half million children have died.

Following lifting of UN sanctions, timber concessions have been awarded to Indian firms.

The United Nations imposed sanctions on Libya for these two acts ( with UN Security Council Resolutions 731, 748 and 883 ).

The UN eventually lifted these sanctions ( with Resolution 1506 ) in 2003 when Libya " accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials, renounced terrorism and arranged for payment of appropriate compensation for the families of the victims.

Continued Libyan defiance led to further sanctions by the UN against Libya in November 1993.

In 1999, less than a decade after the UN sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world, including turning over the Lockerbie suspects for trial.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

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The Libyan government eventually surrendered the two Lockerbie bombing suspects in 1999 for trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands and UN sanctions were suspended.

The previously suspended UN sanctions were then cancelled.

With the progressive lifting of UN and US sanctions from 2003 to 2008, the two countries have been working together to jointly develop their oil and natural gas industries.

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

Many attempts by the ROC to rejoin the UN, in recent years, have not made it past committee, under fierce opposition and threatened vetoes from the PRC.

* Credentials CommitteeThis committee is charged with ensuring that the diplomatic credentials of all UN representatives are in order.

More unusual committees abound at the collegiate level ; for instance, a college conference may simulate the Greco-Persian Wars via a committee of the Greek poleis, have a committee simulating the National Football League's annual owners meeting, as held at George Mason University MUN in 2009, or even have a committee simulating President David Palmer's cabinet from the TV show 24, simulated by the University of Pennsylvania Model UN Conference in 2007 .< ref >

The PRC's UN Ambassador, Wang Yingfan ( Chinese 王英凡 ), has stated multiple times in the UN general committee: " Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory since antiquity " and " both the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration have reaffirmed in unequivocal terms China's sovereignty over Taiwan as a matter of international law.

" Multiple attempts by the Republic of China to rejoin the UN, no longer to represent all of China but just the people of the territories it governs, have not made it past committee, largely due to diplomatic maneuvering by the PRC, which claims Resolution 2758 has settled the matter.

* Founding the atomic Energy center of Iran, member of the UN scientific sub-committee of peaceful use of member of the international space committee ( 1981 )

During 1999 OASIS was approached by UN / CEFACT, the committee of the United Nations dealing with standards for business, to jointly develop a new set of specifications for electronic business.

At the final meeting under the original charter, in Vienna, UN / CEFACT and OASIS agreed to divide the remaining work between the two organizations and to coordinate the completion of the work through a coordinating committee.

A backside of the non-proprietary claim is that implementation guidelines are excluded from the committee work ( indeed allowed to be made by contributors but not in the name of UN / CEFACT ).

( Multiple attempts by the Republic of China to re-join the UN have not made it past committee.

He was a member of the leadership committee of the Global Media AIDS Initiative, established by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2004.

* Local committee on contracts ( UN organization )

In 1947 she became the chairman of the United Nations Stress Analysis Committee, the first woman ever to chair a UN committee.

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When the UN official seal, which depicts the world, was being selected, Romy looked it over and demanded, “ where is the Philippines ?” “ It ’ s too small to include ,” explained US Senator Warren Austin, who headed the committee.

Although the committee recommended increasing some rights given in PACS, it recommended maintaining prohibitions against marriage, adoption, and access to medically assisted reproduction for same-sex couples, arguing that these three issues were inseparable and that allowing them would contravene a number of articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which France is a signatory ( although many UN nations do grant some or all of these rights to same-sex couples ).

Dr Able Hillel Silver, Chairman of the American Section of the Jewish Agency, made the case for a Jewish State to the Ad Hoc committee on Palestine and announced on behalf of the Jewish Agency acceptance of 10 of the eleven unanimous recommendations of the UN partition plan and rejection of the minority report.

In November 2004, the United Nations ( UN ) committee monitoring compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( CESCR ) ruled that Chile should allow abortion in cases of rape and incest.

The UN committee expressed its concern " about the length of judicial procedures and made reference to reports that indicated that five years had sometimes passed between crime and sentence.

Under the aegis of Ruben Um Nyobé, the Secretary-General, the party requested of the 4th UN General Assembly supervising committee in December 1952: