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 appoints replacements in case of vacancy for the remainder of the term of office concerned.

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 context of the decade was of decolonization of Africa and Asia, and many countries of the continent pressed for a more active UN policy on human rights issues, especially in light of massive violations in apartheid South Africa.

In view of the speculation, which the petition aroused, United States and UN representatives pressed the former King to withdraw.

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.

On 1 September, NATO and the UN demanded the lifting of the siege, removal of heavy weapons from the heavy weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo, and complete security of other UN safe areas.

In 1971, the UN adopted Resolution 2758 --- which effected the admission of the People's Republic of China and the removal of the Republic of China --- despite objections by the U. S. government's ( see China and the United Nations ).

In 1999, flights between Aleppo and Beirut were inaugurated ( no such flights had been carried out since the sixties ) and service to Libya was resumed following the removal of the UN sanctions against that country.

After the removal of UN sanctions in early 2002, it was allowed to be used for civilian airlines.

The clearing of of slaughterhouses for the construction of the UN Headquarters in 1948, largely completed by 1952, and the removal of the elevated trains opened the neighborhood up for high-rise office buildings and condominiums.

In a 4 February 2003 editorial with Antoine Veil in Le Monde, entitled " Neither War Nor Saddam ", Kouchner said that he was opposed to the impending War in Iraq, and, as the title suggests, to the remaining in power of Saddam Hussein, the removal of whom should be accomplished via a concerted UN, preferably diplomatic, solution.

On 1 September 1995, NATO and UN demanded the lifting of the Serb's Siege of Sarajevo, removal of heavy weapons from the heavy weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo, and complete security of other UN safe areas.