The most recent developments on the island have included the reopening of the border between the two sides, and the failure of an attempt to reunify the island under the terms of a United Nations-sponsored initiative guided by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

Due to his frustration with the stalemated peace process with Ethiopia, the President of Eritrea Isaias Afewerki wrote a series of Eleven Letters to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The aid package falls under the EU ’ s € 1 billion Food Facility, set up with the UN Secretary-General ’ s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and FAO to focus on programmes that will have a quick but lasting impact on food security.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

In 1972 Max Jakobson was a candidate for Secretary-General of the UN.

Report S / 25704 of the UN Secretary-General, including the proposed Statute of the International Tribunal, approved by United Nations Security Council Resolution 827 | UN Security Council Resolution 827.

The Prosecutor is appointed by the UN Security Council upon nomination by the UN Secretary-General.

UN member and observer states each submit up to two nominees of different nationalities to the UN Secretary-General.

The UN Secretary-General submits this list to the UN Security Council which selects from 28 to 42 nominees and submits these nominees to the UN General Assembly.

The UN Secretary-General has urged " all governments that have influence on Hezbollah to deter it from any further actions which could increase the tension in the area ".

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that he was sending a team led by Ireland's deputy police commissioner, Peter FitzGerald, to investigate the assassination.

The UN Secretary-General commended the African Governments who have contributed to UNMIL, as well as the United States for its support to the regional force.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

Among the Burmese to work at the UN when he was Secretary-General was the young Aung San Suu Kyi.

Sweden has been a member of the United Nations since 19 November 1946, and participates actively in the activities of the organisation, including as an elected member of the Security Council ( 1957 – 1958, 1975 – 1976 and 1997 – 1998 ), providing Dag Hammarskjöld as the second elected Secretary-General of the UN, etc.

* The Guardian, " UN appoints Briton as new chief of staff " 4 January 2004

Instead, they argued that the resolution simply declared what the Assembly's powers already were, according to the UN Charter, in the case of a dead-locked Security Council.

Examples of the first case include the UN treaty committees, while the best exemplar of the second case is the European Court of Human Rights.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on 24 September 2009, the day after his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Colonel Gaddafi said: " As a case, the Lockerbie question: I would say it's come to an end, legally, politically, financially, it is all over.

Morocco protested the proposed referendum and took its case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which ruled that despite historical “ ties of allegiance ” between Morocco and the tribes of Western Sahara, there was no legal justification for departing from the UN position on self-determination.

The advisory opinion set forth the international legal responsibilities and obligations of Sponsoring States AND the Authority to ensure that sponsored activities do not harm the marine environment, consistent with the applicable provisions of UNCLOS Part XI, Authority regulations, ITLOS case law, other international environmental treaties, and Principle 15 of the UN Rio Declaration.

Colonized by Spain from 1884 to 1975, as Spanish Sahara, the territory has been listed with the United Nations as a case of incomplete decolonization since the 60s, making it the last major territory to effectively remain a colony, according to the UN.

When the ICC President reported to the UN regarding its progress handling these crimes against humanity case, Judge Phillipe Kirsch said " The Court does not have the power to arrest these persons.

In its public annual report to the UN secretary general ( presented to the UN General Assembly ), the OIOS reported concerning the case that it had “ submitted a report to the Secretary-General supporting the allegations and recommended that appropriate actions be taken accordingly .”

Also in 1993, but not due to the UN ruling, Quebec reviewed the law and modified its language regulations to require that French be markedly predominant on exterior business signs, as suggested by the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the case of Ford v. Quebec.

Between 1975 and 1981, Belizean leaders stated their case for self-determination at a meeting of the heads of Commonwealth of Nations governments in Jamaica, the conference of ministers of the Nonaligned Movement in Peru, and at meetings of the United Nations ( UN ).

In this particular case, a course of action is also bound by other foundations such as the NATO charter and the UN charter, both of which were drafted in accordance with preexisting international regulation.

In fact there was a case in UN / CEFACT 2007 where a large SW vendor presented a solution that later was discovered they claim patent rights over.

Associated with each UN number is a hazard identifier, which encodes the general hazard class and subdivision ( and, in the case of explosives, their compatibility group ).

While Colin Powell's statement to the UN may have been accepted as " proof " by many in the US, this was not the case in Europe, where there was widespread scepticism of any links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.

In fact in 2005, the US Ambassador at the UN complained that the incumbent, as a ' civil servant ', was not authorized to act upon information ( in this case world wide press reports on abnormal detention forms in the ' war against terrorism ' suspected to breech the rights of the suspects ) not obtained by the organisation's official channels.

The commission was given evidence of the Italian policy of systematic terrorism and Graziani ’ s self-admitted intention to execute all Amharas authorities, and cited a telegram from Graziani to General Nasi, in which he had written, “ Keep in mind also that I have already aimed at the total destruction of Abyssinian chiefs and notables and that this should be carried out completely in your territories .” The UN commission agreed that there was a prima facie case against eight Italians including Graziani.

The case study uses data provided by the UN, including health care, life duration expectancy and literacy rate over a 25 year period in some countries.

Furthermore, the General Secretary for UN, Ban Ki Moon have made a call to the President Tsakhia Elbegdorj and expressed his concern about the Enkhbayar case.

* 6 September-The Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan having failed to retain independence decides to accede to the Dominion of Pakistan, Pakistan instead takes the case to the UN, pending resolutions regarding the issue.

In the case of this nation, the flag takes its inspiration from the United Nations, as the NMI had once been a UN Trust Territory.

Finding support in this position from two other justices ( William J. Brennan and William O. Douglas ), Goldberg published an opinion dissenting from the Court's denial of certiorari in a case, Rudolph v. Alabama, involving the imposition of the death penalty for rape, in which Goldberg cited the fact that only five nations responding to a UN survey indicated that they allowed imposition of the death penalty for rape, including the U. S., and that 33 states in the U. S. had outlawed the practice.

The Gulf War was also framed as a test case for UN credibility.

Does this suggest that the Congo is fit for nationhood or that UN is making any progress whatever toward its goal of so making it??

The UN army is too weak, too demoralized for the task.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

The UN estimates of 1. 8 million internally displaced persons ( IDPs ), while generally the accepted figure for war-affected people is 4 million.

In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities, unimpeded access for international humanitarian relief efforts, and the eventual deployment of a peacekeeping force in the region.

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

* World Day for Laboratory Animals ( UN recognized )

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going specially to the United Nations in New York to demand UN involvement in the Northern Ireland " Troubles ".

On October 23, 1991, the Paris Conference reconvened to sign a comprehensive settlement giving the UN full authority to supervise a cease-fire, repatriate the displaced Khmer along the border with Thailand, disarm and demobilize the factional armies, and prepare the country for free and fair elections.

The UN Advance Mission for Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) was deployed at the same time to maintain liaison among the factions and begin demining operations to expedite the repatriation of approximately 370, 000 Cambodians from Thailand.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees began fullscale repatriation in March 1992.

** UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ( UNHCR )

The so-called Erdut Agreement made the area a temporary protectorate of the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium.

* took a strong line on the right of return for refugees to properties vacated in the 1974 displacement of Cypriots on both sides, which was based on both UN Resolutions and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ;

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.