Its previous Director, Professor Judith Rees, is also chair of the school's Grantham Institute on Climate Change, an adviser to the World Bank as well as sitting on the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and the International Scientific Advisory Council ( ISAC ).

He became senior political adviser to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon between 1981 and 1983.

* News ( War-Wire ): Former UN weapons inspector replaces David Kay as Iraq WMD adviser.

Al-Qaradawi is a principal shareholder and former Sharia adviser to Bank Al-Taqwa, a member bank of the Lugano-Switzerland Al-Taqwa group, a bank that the U. S. states finances terrorism and that the UN Security Council had listed as associated with Al Qaeda.

After studying at Columbia University, he went on to serve the United Nations and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for approximately eleven years, first as press attache to the UN Moroccan Mission in New York ( 1965 ), then as information officer at the UN headquarters in New York and in Addis Ababa ( 1965 – 1967 ), regional information adviser for Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Accra, Ghana ( 1967 – 1971 ), communications adviser for the FAO at Rome ( 1961 – 1974 ), director of the information division at the same ( 1974 – 1976 ), and finally as Assistant-Secretary General at the UN World Food Conference ( 1974 – 1975 ).

* Resolution 1193 ( 1998 ) of 28 August-demands an end to hostilities and an investigation into the killing of two UN staff members and the military adviser to the UN Special Mission to Afghanistan.

As a member of the UN ICT Task Force and an adviser to the UN General-Secretary on the ICT issues, he initiated the foundation of the Moscow UN ICT Task Force Bureau of the European and Central Asian Regional Node and used to be the head of the organisation.

Sir John led the discussion on public finance for infrastructure at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting on 2003 ; he was an adviser to the UN Millennium Project in 2004 ; he led the discussion of catastrophe insurance at the World Bank / IMF annual meeting in 2005 ; and he was a member of Paul Volcker ’ s panel on the World Bank ’ s Institutional Integrity in 2007.

He has been an adviser to the UN Secretary-General ’ s Millennium Development Project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

However, 28 % of Iraq's export revenues under the program were deducted to meet UN Compensation Fund and UN administrative expenses.

" After Saddam's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, a UN coalition led by the United States drove Iraq's troops from Kuwait in February 1991.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.

The issue of Iraq's disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when U. S. President George W. Bush demanded a complete end to what he alleged was Iraqi production of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN weapons inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities.

Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei presented several reports to the UN detailing Iraq's level of compliance with Resolution 1441..

Many other countries contributed as well ; since Iraq's nuclear program in the early 1980s was officially viewed internationally as for energy production, not weapons, there were no UN prohibitions against it.

For example, the United States and the UK blocked condemnation of Iraq's known chemical weapons attacks at the UN Security Council.

After reviewing the document, UN weapons inspectors, the US, France, United Kingdom and other countries thought that this declaration failed to account for all of Iraq's chemical and biological agents.

Villepin went on to say that he believed the presence of UN weapons inspectors had frozen Iraq's weapons programs.

On February 13, 2003, a UN panel reported that Iraq's Al-Samoud 2 missiles, disclosed by Iraq to weapons inspectors in December, have a range of 180 km, in breach of UNSCR 1441.

* The UN Security Council passes Resolution 660, condemning Iraq's invasion and demanding a withdrawal of Iraqi troops.

* The UN Security Council passes Resolution 688, condemning Iraq's repressive measures exercised against civilians.

* The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.

* UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam's son, is the key player in hiding Iraq's illegal weapons.

* President of the UN Security Council says that Iraq's demands are unacceptable and that the country must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border.

* The UN Security Council issues a statement expressing its concern over Iraq's obstructive behavior, which it terms " a clear violation of Iraq's obligations under relevant resolutions.

* The UN Security Council passes Resolution 1060, which calls Iraq's actions a clear violation of the council's earlier resolutions.

* The UN Security Council states that it deplores Iraq's intransigence on the buried missile parts.

* The UN Security Council expresses concerns over Iraq's threatening actions against UNSCOM helicopters and crews.

* The UN Security Council passes Resolution 1115, which condemns Iraq's actions and demands that the country allow UNSCOM's team immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to any sites for inspection and officials for interviews.

* The UN Security Council passes Resolution 1137, condemning Iraq's continued violations of earlier resolutions, and again demanded that Baghdad comply with the UNSCOM inspection teams.

* UNSCOM reports to the UN Security Council that Iraq's declaration on its biological weapons program is incomplete and inadequate.

This amendment comes in discordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for a new presidential election in Lebanon.

A regional peace-monitoring force and a UN observer mission monitors the government and provincial leaders who have established an interim administration and are working toward complete surrender of weapons, the election of a provincial government and an eventual referendum on independence.

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

On August 2006, Venezuela had asked Bangladesh for support for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council although Venezuela was not successful due to the repeated deadlocks in the 2006 UN Security Council election.

The UN had insisted that he be arrested, judged and tried for crimes against humanity during his term and since the election of Ouattara.

Duplessis and the UN won the August 1936 election in a landslide, putting an end to thirty-nine consecutive years of Liberal rule.

Duplessis led the new party, the Union Nationale ( UN ), to power in the 1936 election.

When he was pressured by the international community, notably a very vocal US ambassador to the Central African Republic, Daniel H. Simpson, to hold fair elections, assisted by the UN Electoral Assistance Unit and monitored by international observers in 1992, he only won 10 % of the vote and so he declared the elections invalid and had the Constitutional Council cancel the election.

Patassé was the first president in the CAR's history ( since 1960 ) to be chosen in what was generally regarded as a fairly democratic election ( 1993 ) in that it was brought about by donor pressure on the Kolingba regime and assisted by the UN Electoral Assistance Unit.

Despite Brooke's disagreements with Nixon, the president reportedly respected the senator's abilities ; after Nixon's election he had offered to make Brooke a member of his cabinet, or ambassador to the UN.

As head of SWAPO, Nujoma was unanimously declared president upon the victory of SWAPO in a United Nations-supervised election in 1989, and was sworn in by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on 21 March 1990.

Holbrooke also secured membership for Israel in the UN's Western European and Others regional group, ending Israel's historic exclusion from regional group deliberations and allowing it to, for the first time, stand for election to leadership positions in UN sub-bodies.

To be eligible for election, a civilization must control 25 % of either the world's population or its territory, although the civilization that actually built the UN is always automatically a candidate.

During his tenure in the former role, he oversaw New Zealand's election to the UN Security Council, increased activity in the Commonwealth of Nations, and attempts to broker a truce on the island of Bougainville.

Nine other UN staff, also there working for the presidential election, were wounded.

In the 1944 provincial election, Godbout's Liberals and Duplessis ’ Union Nationale received similar shares of the popular vote, the Liberals getting slightly more votes but the UN enjoying a level of support in the province ’ s rural areas that was strong enough to win a majority of seats to the legislature and thus form the government.

On the change of government following the election in November 2007, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the ratification immediately after assuming office on 3 December 2007, just before the meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

During his stay there he met his future wife, Rula Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was elected for the UN post, has ranked second rank in the UN election he is a well famous economist of Afghanistan and well known abroad.

When he was finally forced by the donor community, notably a very vocal US ambassador, to hold fair elections, assisted by the UN Electoral Assistance Unit and monitored by international observers in 1992, he only won 10 % of the vote and so he declared the elections invalid and had the Constitutional Council cancel the election.

Unwilling to give in, Kolingba remained in his post but the group of local donor representatives ( GIBAFOR ) notably the USA and France forced him to hold proper elections and the same team that the UN Electoral Assistance unit had provided for the earlier election, which Kolingba's government caused to fail, was brought in to give its support.

It led to the establishment by the UN General Assembly in December 1972 of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and the election of Strong to head it.

In terms of the number of seats won, the election was one of the closest in recent history, with the UN winning 56 seats to the Liberals ' 50.