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We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
Shortly the group would issue its report to the Secretary General, recommending Paul Bang-Jensen's dismissal from the United Nations.
It is for these reasons that proposals for a `` new world order '', through radical overhaul of the United Nations or through some sort of world federation, are utterly fatuous.
the history of both the League of Nations and the United Nations demonstrates that.
Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends.
But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.
The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
As head of the United Nations he was the symbol of world peace, and his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously.
What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.
He also demanded that Kennedy take additional measures to increase international tension: specifically to crush the Cuban revolution, resume nuclear testing, resist more vigorously admission of China to its lawful seat in the United Nations, and postpone non-military programs at home ''.
In the United Nations Charter, the right of self-determination is also an essential principle.
I would like to quote from the Charter of the United Nations:
A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years ''.
But they refuse, as do the Arab states, to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between Egypt and Israel, and the U.N. troops in the Congo, which expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, but by a special budget.
That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.
Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.
Of course the fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations.
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??
United Nations Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., governor

United and Environment
In his critique of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Lomborg stated: " Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat.
Based in Montreal, it operates under the United Nations Environment Programme.
In a 1992 government report to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, Estonia detailed other major environmental concerns.
He is also accredited to: Tanzania, the Comoros, United Nations Environment Programme, and United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
While the bodies that proposed, argued, agreed upon and ultimately adopted existing international agreements vary according to each agreement, certain conferences, including 1972's United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1983's World Commission on Environment and Development, 1992's United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and 2002's World Summit on Sustainable Development have been particularly important.
* the United Nations Environment Programme
After the 1991 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit, Singer started writing and speaking out to cast doubt on the science.
* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).
In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.
It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) and the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43 / 53.
Category: United Nations Environment Programme
In 1992, he was invited to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations ' International Conference on Environment and Development, and then he became a regular consultant for the UN and the World Bank.
These are classified as part of the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone by Environment Canada, or as the Eastern Great Lakes and Hudson Lowlands by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or as the Great Lakes Ecoregion by The Nature Conservancy.
In 2010, the International Resource Panel, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) published reports on metal stocks that exist within society and their recycling rates.
It embodies the principle agreed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 that countries have a common but differentiated responsibility to protect and manage the global commons.
* United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), through the UNEP DTIE OzonAction Programme.

United and Programme
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.
Furthermore, there are 52 foreign embassies and 69 consulates in the Republic of Croatia in addition to offices of international organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Organization for Migration, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), World Bank, World Health Organization, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), United Nations Development Programme, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF.
In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $ 1 million to the cause.
* United Nations Programme for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response United Nations programme covering the full disaster management cycle with usage of space technology
The United Nations Development Programme has proposed a broad governance reform program, but the Equatorial Guinean Government has not moved rapidly to implement it.
The talks are to cover such matters as the Pacific Plan and a cost-sharing agreement for a citizen education project, promoted by the United Nations Development Programme.
The Alliance was founded by the Rome based food agencies-the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), UN World Food Programme ( WFP ), International Fund for Agriculture Fund for Development ( IFAD ),-and Bioversity International.
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) and the World Bank reported the following:
A 2008 United Nations Development Programme census estimated that there were around 4, 000 personnel in the Armed Forces.
In the United Kingdom, surgical trainees enter training after five years of medical school and two years of the Foundation Programme.

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