According to the UN, an area of fertile soil the size of Ukraine is lost every year because of drought, deforestation and climate change.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.

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

The UN does not define “ racism ”; however, it does define “ racial discrimination ”: According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, " The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature ".

According to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi foreign policy is focused on co-operation with the Gulf states, the unity of the Arab world, solidarity with Muslim countries, and support for the United Nations ( UN ).

According to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, the UN, ICJ and international law experts, there is no contradiction between the principles of self-determination and territorial integrity, with the latter taking precedence.

According to the UN and the World Bank, it is a high income country with a very high human development index.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

According to the UN Population Bureau, life expectancy in 2200 will be around 100 for developed countries and the world population will be about 22. 8 billion.

According to UN documents, in relation to the adoption and enforcement of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the CSUCS plays " a key role in ensuring implementation at every level.

According to a UN climate report, the Himalayan glaciers that are the principal dry-season water sources of Asia's biggest rivers-Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow-could disappear by 2035 as temperatures rise and human demand rises.

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

According to the UN report, the Chechen separatist forces included a large number of children, some as young as 11 and both male and female, during the First Chechen War: " Child soldiers in Chechnya were reportedly assigned the same tasks as adult combatants, and served on the front lines soon after joining the armed forces.

According to the Mixed Armistice Commission report, approved on the afternoon immediately following the operation, and delivered by Major General Vagn Bennike to the UN Security Council, the raid at Qibya took place on the evening of October 14, 1953 at around 9. 30 pm, and was taken by roughly half a battalion strength of soldiers from the Israeli regular army.

According to the report of the Paul Volcker Committee, between April and December 2004, Kofi Annan ’ s then Chef de Cabinet Iqbal Riza authorized thousands of UN documents shredded including the entire chronological files of the Oil-for-Food Programme between the years 1997-1999.

According to his statement to the UN Security Council,

According to a UN declaration that resulted from the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, absolute poverty is " a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

According to his autobiography, then-United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the UN.

According to Britain, a majority of the UN Security Council members supported its proposed 18th resolution which gave Iraq a deadline to comply with previous resolutions, until France announced that they would veto any new resolution that gave Iraq a deadline.

According to a UN Demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272, 000 centenarians by 2050.

* According to UNSCOM, Iraqi nuclear scientists are ordered to hide nuclear weapons from UN inspectors, collect and hide computer data, and formulate a " legal " justification for the existence of Iraqi nuclear labs.

* According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, are starting to become increasingly interested in the financial opportunities of a post-sanctions Iraq.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.

According to their special constitutions the Celestines were bound to say matins in the choir at two o ' clock in the morning, and always to abstain from eating meat, save in illness.

According to science and technology historian Bert S. Hall: " It goes without saying, however, that historians bent on special pleading, or simply with axes of their own to grind, can find rich material in these terminological thickets.

According to Donald R. Hopkins ( 2002 ), Madhav included a special chapter on smallpox ( masūrikā ) and described the method of inoculation to protect against smallpox.

According to the first postulate of special relativity, all physical laws take their simplest form in an inertial frame, and there exist multiple inertial frames interrelated by uniform translation:

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

According to Agassiz ’ s theory of polygenism animals, plants and humans were all created in “ special provinces ” each having distinct populations of species created in and for that province.

According to special relativity, the Galilean transformation is a good approximation only at relative speeds much smaller than the speed of light.

According to the Law on Stationing Troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region ( or Macau Garrison Law, passed by the NPC Standing Committee on June 28, 1999 ), the mission of the PLA in Macau is to defend the special administrative region by " preventing and resisting aggression ; safe-guarding the security of Macau ; undertaking defence services ; managing military facilities ; and handling related foreign military affairs.

According to Ahmadiyya thought, Messiahship is a phenomenon through which a special emphasis is given on the transformation of a people by way of offering suffering for the sake of God instead of giving suffering ( i. e. refraining from revenge ).

According to contemporary research, males are dominant throughout Melanesia ( although some believe that female witches have special powers ).

According to Matthew Polly, a travel writer and martial artist, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong granted the Shaolin Temple extra land and special " imperial dispensation " to eat meat, and drink, which would make Shaolin the only temple in China that did not prohibit alcohol, although this practice has ceased today.

According to special relativity, one can change a spatial and time separation ( L < sub > 1 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 1 </ sub >) into another ( L < sub > 2 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 2 </ sub >) by changing one's reference frame, as long as the change maintains the spacetime interval s. Such a change in reference frame corresponds to changing one's motion ; in a moving frame, lengths and times are different from their counterparts in a stationary reference frame.

According to the U. S. Defense Department, the video was seized from the compound during the May 2011 operation by US special forces in which bin Laden was killed.

According to the coefficient of restitution, there are two special cases of any collision as written below:

According to the featurettes Pacino, DeNiro and the Conversation and The Making of Heat: True Crime, included in the special edition DVD, which includes a taped interview with Adamson, the scene of McCauley and Hanna in the restaurant was also based on a real life event.

According to special relativity, because photons are massless their energy ( E ) and momentum ( p ) are related by E = pc.

According to Muslim conception, the source of barakah is solely from Allah ; it is Allah's direct blessing and intervention conferred upon special, pious Muslims.

According to Rawcliffe, Abrams and his successors had " founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years ".

According to Brian Lapping, this was the first step ever taken towards directing help to areas with special needs, “ the reversal of the former position under which ministers had passed the burden of social help measures in housing, education and health to local authorities without passing them any money .”