It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.

This session concerned itself with liquidating the League: assets worth approximately US $ 22, 000, 000 in 1946, including the Palace of Peace and the League's archives, were given to the UN, reserve funds were returned to the nations that had supplied them, and the debts of the League were settled.

* 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration ( Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976 ).

Although the figures given to the United Nations ( UN ) might have been purposely distorted, it appears that in line with other attempts to open itself to the outside world, the North Korean regime has also opened somewhat in the demographic realm.

From 1998 to 2000, Slovenia occupied a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council and in that capacity distinguished itself with a constructive, creative, and consensus-oriented activism.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

Concluding that there was little hope of the two sides reconciling their positions independently, Ahtisaari said he would submit to the UN Security Council his own proposed status arrangements, including an explicit recommendation for the status outcome itself, by the end of March.

The International Refugee Organization was a temporary organization of the United Nations ( UN ), which itself had been founded in 1945, with a mandate to largely finish the UNRRA's work of repatriating or resettling European refugees.

Additionally, quite a few citizens consider that Japan should allow itself to commit the Self-Defense Forces to collective defense efforts, like those agreed to on the UN Security Council in the Gulf War, for instance.

During most of 2002 and into 2003, the United States government continued to call for " regime change " in Iraq and threatened to use military force to overthrow the Iraqi government unless Iraq rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction and convinced the UN that it had done so.

The United States, thus itself not respecting the UN charter, put a veto on a draft resolution which would have strongly deplored it.

The United Nations ( UN ) is an international organization that describes itself as a " global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity "; It is the most prominent international institution.

Most such international operations are established and implemented by the United Nations itself, with troops serving under UN operational control.

" The inclusion of this wording places the UN, itself, beyond the purview the very rights it claims to be " universal.

Reform of the UN Security Council through amendments to the United Nations Charter could change this, but such reform would itself be subject to the great power veto.

The involvement of the UN itself in the scandal began in February 2004 after the name of Benon Sevan, executive director of the Oil-for-Food Programme, appeared on the Iraqi Oil Ministry's documents.

This is now largely accepted, and because these Ambassadors rank after the UN representative in the orders of precedence of representatives of international organizations, the UN coming naturally first as pre-eminent, the UN Resident Coordinators are now also commonly but informally referred to in diplomatic circles as ambassadors, although the UN itself does not refer to them in this way.

The principal organ of the UN system was the United Nations itself, and consists of six principal organs established by the Charter of the United Nations.

The UN became a war combatant itself after North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950 ( see Korean War ).

Officials who identified most strongly with the nation itself, such as the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) and allied parties, saw no reason to adopt Hanyu Pinyin just because mainland China and the UN had.

Longer-term options on climate financing mentioned in the accord are being discussed within the UN Secretary General's High Level Advisory Group on Climate Financing, which is due to report in November 2010.

It was accompanied by a political statement that explicitly mentioned SC 242 and other UN resolutions and called only for withdrawal from " Arab Jerusalem " and the other " Arab territories occupied.

Resolution 1173 was the first resolution by the UN which specifically mentioned diamonds in the context of funding a war.

In August 2012, Ahtisaari opined on the sectarian violence in Syria and was mentioned as a possible replacement as Joint Envoy there to succeed former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

He was mentioned in some circles as a suitable candidate for UN Secretary-General.

However, these projections also show that life expectancies in poor countries will still be less than in rich countries in 2300, in some cases by as much as 20 years, and the UN itself mentioned that gaps in life expectancy so far in the future will likely not exist, especially since the exchange of technology between rich and poor countries and the industrialization and development of poor countries will cause their life expectancies to fully converge with those of rich countries long before that point, similarly to how life expectancies between rich and poor countries have already been converging over the last 60 years as better medicine, technology, and living conditions became accessible to many people in poor countries.

Among the few conferences where he played this role ( mentioned in the Secretary General's Report to the UN on IYY in 1985 ) are the UNESCO's World Youth Congress and the International Youth Year Conference on Law.

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In order to achieve the objective of recapturing Seoul, it was necessary to overcome the resistance by those UN forces mentioned in the operational directive.

The town has been mentioned several times in pieces of fiction dealing with UN and NGO aid activity there.

Commenting on the issue, UN Development Programme officials mentioned the plans to achieve “ self-reliance ” of the local population, “ agriculture revival ” and development of eco-tourism.

The United States Department of the Treasury has mentioned Bank Mellat and Persia International in their latest watchlist of Iranian Banks whom maybe trading in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1803.

The ethnic cleansing of Georgians has been recognized officially by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) conventions of Lisbon, Budapest and Istanbul ( also mentioned in UN General Assembly Resolution GA / 10708 ).

On 9 August, Security Council Resolution 146 mentioned Katanga for the first time, and explicitly allowed UN forces to enter Katanga whilst forbidding their use to ' intervene in or influence the outcome of any internal conflict '.

Megadeth front man Dave Mustaine mentioned Kojo in the song " United Abominations " the title track of Megadeth's 2007 studio release, this song based on the UN sparked an official retort from the UN on July 10, by Mark Leon Goldberg of the United Nations affairs blog, UN Dispatch posted a rebuttal.

Although the " power of veto " is not explicitly mentioned in the UN Charter, the fact that " substantive " decisions by the UNSC require " the concurring votes of the permanent members ", means that any of those permanent members can prevent the adoption, by the Council, of any draft resolutions on " substantive " matters.

In 1963 he served in the UN mission in the Congo, where he was chief of staff of the Katanga command and was mentioned in dispatches for his gallantry.

Yet with the forward UN positions in both the US I Corps and US IX Corps sectors increasingly untenable as the Chinese exploited gaps between formations, Van Fleet ordered a withdrawal to the Kansas Line in the mid-morning.

The UN is concerned about three primary gaps in groundwater management which have enormous implications for sustainable development: ( 1 ) The accelerated degradation of groundwater systems, through pollution of aquifers.

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.

However, the UN has warned that these projections could be invalidated by any change and progress in future life extension technology and discoveries, as well as changes in future birthrates.

The quality of life of the city municipality of Niteroi is considered one of the best ( 3rd place ) among 5, 600 other Brazilian municipalities, according to UN indexes ( 2000 est.

Points represent data of the United Nations | UN 171 countries in 4-dimensional space formed by the values of 4 indicators: Gross domestic product | gross product per capita, life expectancy, infant mortality, tuberculosis incidence.

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.

In 1977 Gairy promoted the idea that the UN should create an agency or department to start research on UFO and extraterrestrial life, resulting in their Resolution 33 / 426 on Extraterrestrial Life in 1978.

Israel profoundly regrets the loss of human life at Kana and has thoroughly investigated this tragic incident which was caused, first and foremost, by the firing of Katyusha rockets and mortars by Hizbullah from a location in close proximity to the UN position ; We reiterate that the IDF had no intention whatsoever of firing on the UN position at Kana.

He stated that it was abhorrent that a UN employee would use their position as information and media coordinator to manipulate public sentiment and accused Badawi as caring " more for the lie, than for life .” His call was echoed by a huge volume of Twitter users.

In March 2004, when the recently established UN Environment Programme published its first Global Environment Outlook Year Book ( GEO Year Book 2003 ), it reported 146 dead zones in the world's oceans where marine life could not be supported due to depleted oxygen levels.

He was charged by UN judge Erik Møse, and sentenced to life in prison.

According to a 1999 UN study, São José dos Campos was rated one of the top 25 Brazilian cities for quality of life.

UNOSAT is a programme developed in co-operation with the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) delivering satellite solutions to relief and development organizations within and outside the UN system to help make a difference in the life of communities exposed to poverty, hazards and risk, or affected by humanitarian and other crises.

At the meeting Nelson informs the UN that according to their calculations, if the heat increase is not stopped, it will become irreversible and Earth has " a life expectancy of about three weeks.

During the war between Hezbollah and Israel, three UN Observers performed life saving first aid on an Italian Observer that had been shot in the back.

He was a member of International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) teams, which investigated the Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 air disaster in South Africa in which the President of Mozambique lost his life, and the shooting down of three civil aircraft: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Russia and two United Nations ( UN ) L-130 aircraft in Angola.

: espite massive deployment of police and other resources to implement the UN Conventions, production and consumption of, and trafficking in, prohibited substances have increased exponentially over the past 30 years, representing what can only be described as a failure, which the police and judicial authorities also recognise as such ... he policy of prohibiting drugs, based on the UN Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988, is the true cause of the increasing damage that the production of, trafficking in, and sale and use of illegal substances are inflicting on whole sectors of society, on the economy and on public institutions, eroding the health, freedom and life of individuals.