That is why the United Nations has designated 2005 as the international year of microcredit. |
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Every year the United Nations puts out a report on the status of the world. |
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And there should be nothing unusual about the ad interim appointment of former Chief Justice Hilario Davide as ambassador to the United Nations. |
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Every Western democracy is signed up to the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees. |
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The United Nations had sealed the materials, and they remained untouched until the US troops arrived. |
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In 1972 he had Ivory Coast vote against admitting China to the United Nations. |
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The OPM itself was a rather loose organisation set up by West Papuan exiles with a headquarters in Holland and an office at the United Nations. |
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Offices are regularly swept for bugs, and even after the Cold War the United Nations remains for some a hotbed of espionage. |
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According to the United Nations, this Southern African nation has the world's highest rate of infection. |
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They're trying to put in measures to help whistle-blowers point out wrongdoing at the United Nations without losing their job. |
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The United Nations is saying that 20 per cent of affected areas are yet to be assessed by any aid teams. |
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For the administration and its conservative allies, the United Nations represents embarrassment and obstruction. |
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The United Nations had proven its worth by proving its value to Washington. |
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The United Nations and European Union are opposed to trade sanctions against Burma. |
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The country yesterday supported India's candidature for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. |
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This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children. |
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Cambodia sent a copy of the law in Khmer to the United Nations last weekend to keep them informed of the process, the government official said. |
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David Beckham helped to kick off the latest campaign by the United Nations Children's Fund to end all forms of child exploitation. |
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An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations. |
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By Monday night, though, in his 48-hour-warning speech, the references to international law and the United Nations had become vestigial. |
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We're overdue for a rethinking of the United Nations in general, from top to bottom, including its underlying principles. |
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But the war also divided the country on issues of foreign policy, the United Nations and the morality of war itself. |
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Just a few days ago, there was a meeting of the main donors here in New York at the United Nations, and it was a real strong recommitment. |
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They say that they want the United Nations to establish a fund to recompense them for their massive losses. |
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Another is the United Nations convention on the rights of the child, which restricts recruitment of children into the armed forces. |
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He plans to do this by giving control of military operations and lucrative contracts to the United Nations. |
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The United Nations received much support for taking robust action against an aggressor nation. |
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In this respect, it also re-emphasizes the purposes of the United Nations itself. |
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Many of them are meeting tomorrow in London to debate the future of the United Nations. |
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This is why the constitution of the new world order is not being written at the United Nations. |
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The United Nations described the crisis as the world's worst humanitarian disaster, affecting more than 2m people. |
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Towards the end of the war, the victors founded the United Nations at the San Francisco conference. |
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He has planned his first swoony days in office, a post-election honeymoon, but with the United Nations, not the U.S. Congress. |
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He said they were built on truck beds so they could be moved from locations likely to be inspected by the United Nations. |
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He is working in a cooperative way with the United Nations and our allies around the world. |
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The United Nations chief is charming and charismatic, but his nervy doctrine for ending wars makes world leaders twitch. |
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The United Nations has put peacekeepers here to maintain security, but now the UN is on its way out. |
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A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones. |
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Kuwait boasts the first female Arab-Muslim ambassador to the United Nations. |
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The blue United Nations flag with its white map of the world was lowered to half-staff. |
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The documents, along with those of other EU states, will be deposited at the United Nations by June at the latest. |
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A large majority of those people will be living in semi-permanent or permanent houses in two years, the United Nations said. |
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The United Nations is responsible for enforcing its resolutions and should take the lead. |
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Do you specifically want the United Nations to have some sort of peacekeeping role there? |
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These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. |
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It tried to put the blame on to the United Nations for not providing air support. |
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They surrendered peacefully to police after demanding asylum and meeting a United Nations representative. |
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The United Nations says that Afghanistan is the world's most prolific producer of heroin and that there's no let-up in sight. |
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As we reported earlier, an official from the United Nations accused large industrial nations of being stingy with international aid. |
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The United Nations was set up after two wars involving the worst carnage imaginable to try and prevent a repeat. |
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If the United Nations sends in peacekeepers, they will face great challenges keeping order in the region. |
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He said the discussions will focus on strengthening multilateralism and enhancing the role of the United Nations. |
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The United Nations coined the term megacity in the 1970s to describe metropolises with 10 million or more residents. |
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Some activists criticized the United States for not channeling the money through the United Nations global AIDS fund. |
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United Nations emergency officials have repeated their urgent call for more international assistance. |
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The version presented here is based on United Nations historical documentations. |
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The United Nations was seen as the best safety net to protect against this pitfall. |
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Its successor, the United Nations, also seeks to persuade member nations to solve their difference by peaceful means. |
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The Secretary General of the United Nations had called for an emergency United Nations Security Council caucus due to the blackout. |
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They are fearful of asserting themselves on the world stage without the approval of the United Nations. |
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We are particularly concerned that a real role has not been established for the United Nations. |
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The United Nations Security Council declared six safe areas for Bosnian Muslims to be protected by lightly equipped UN troops. |
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And an agreement has been reached with the United Nations for some safe areas for up to a million villagers. |
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The Prime Minister says that she is supporting the multilateral approach of the United Nations. |
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These foreigners who ask pardon from us, we will hand them over to the United Nations. |
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These organs of the global economy are likewise members of the United Nations family. |
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The Academic Council is an organization that has the ear of the United Nations and can help bring clarity in the wake of stormy global politics. |
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Powell took his seat in the United Nations and put his shoulder to the wheel. |
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United Nations International Day of Peace is a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. |
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Yet the United Nations, the great world body created to bring peace and to disseminate aid to suffering people showed only tepid response. |
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It over-represents its smaller member states in a way that, say, the United Nations or WTO never could. |
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Twenty thousand American marines are stationed in East Africa as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force. |
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The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. |
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Bosnia Herzegovina, for example, while it has a seat at the United Nations, is also administered by an international viceroy, Lord Paddy Ashdown. |
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Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations. |
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The United Nations is certainly the most modern form of organized political expression yet invented. |
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Urnes is the only stave church listed on the World Heritage List from the United Nations. |
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The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was tasked with providing advice to States on the implementation of the Platform for Action. |
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In the afternoon, we went on a tour of the United Nations offices, located towards the northern end of the city. |
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The stylist himself then held, for students and designers, a crowded lecture at United Nations University, on the theme of Projecting Matter. |
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Some Royal Nepal Army personnel have served in United Nations peacekeeping forces. |
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Rebecca Miller is paralegal consultant for the United Nations Drug Control Program's Regional Center for East Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. |
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The United Nations is getting a bit burdensome, it seems to me, to anyone who's interested in freedom. |
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The sheetlets will be issued Friday at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, Geneva, Switzerland and Vienna. |
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It seems more plausible that this was not an attempt to put spine in the United Nations and NATO, but to discredit them. |
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The United Nations Security Council resolution does not include an option for an opposed boarding or a non-compliant boarding. |
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Most of the estimated 300 000 victims were civilians, according to the United Nations. |
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Well, the humanitarian crisis in Congo is so urgent the United Nations is boosting its peacekeeping force there by 3,000 more troops. |
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This presupposes a reasonably developed infrastructure and thus a system less unwieldy than that of the United Nations. |
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The United Nations currently estimates that half a million people have so far been displaced. |
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United Nations peacekeeping forces maintain a buffer zone between the two sides. |
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Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations. |
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They have also been part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Cyprus and, more recently, Bosnia. |
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The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations. |
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He has created an alternate history that claims that U.S. forces, under the banner of the United Nations, killed 13,000 Somalis. |
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The United Nations estimates that 1.1 billion people have no access to fresh water and 2.4 billion lack access to adequate sanitation. |
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This means Washington must take a critical look at NATO and the United Nations, neither of which reflects America's true singularity as the world's only superpower. |
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Seventy percent of the world's most valuable fisheries, and 11 of 15 major fishing grounds, are either overfished or fished to the limit according to the United Nations. |
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At a meeting Tuesday, Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola David Nabarro zeroed in on this point. |
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The United Nations wants us to remember human rights 365 days a year, in fact. |
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The United Nations has an overarching responsibility for refugee matters. |
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These were later succeeded by United Nations trust territories. |
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The 2010 cholera outbreak from sewage in a United Nations camp in Mirebalais underscores the need for improved sanitation. |
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We must win the tug of war for these men, even if the battle is with the United Nations. |
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The committee wants something more significant and they want it during this year, the bicentennial of the revolution, an event recognized by the United Nations. |
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We need to return to the diplomatic obeisance to the United Nations. |
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Lake Success, a township on Long Island, was home to the United Nations long before it moved to its iconic eastside headquarters. |
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The obstacles to the large-scale reform of the United Nations may reside above all in the split between the rich North and the poor South, the haves and the have-nots. |
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Instead it appeared, at least to some Americans, as if the promise of the United Nations had collapsed in a miasma of bureaucratic inertia and rhetorical posturing. |
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She was freed when the United Nations Human Rights Council offered her political asylum. |
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Those of us who toil every day at the Headquarters of the United Nations have become a little exasperated at seeing our institutional obituaries in the press. |
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The United Nations announced yesterday that hundreds of staff in Pakistan and India were ordered to send their families home in the next few days. |
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Greater respect should be shown for the instruments of the United Nations. |
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European governments are stiffening their resistance to war in Iraq in advance of the weapons inspectors' report to the United Nations security council tomorrow. |
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The lessons had been learnt and, through enlightened policies, respect for national sovereignty and the mediation of the United Nations, peace would prevail. |
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Plans for the surface-to-surface missile were one of the regime's most closely-guarded secrets and were unknown to United Nations weapons inspectors. |
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Rina AMIRI SENIOR MEDIATION EXPERT, UNITED NATIONS Rina Amiri is a senior mediation expert with the United Nations. |
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Conservatives in this country will undoubtedly pile on the United Nations for its ineffectiveness. |
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But they really started to get up a head of steam when the United Nations started to take credit for the work that the American military was doing. |
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Bachmann and Cain squabble Asked about foreign aid, Perry called for defunding the United Nations. |
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A peace accord signed in 2006 said that Maoist former guerrillas, who are currently in United Nations supervised cantonments, would be integrated into the national army. |
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A month before Kennedy was shot, Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was assaulted in Dallas. |
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The piece was authored by none other than Samantha Power, who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. |
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After the war, he opposed peacetime conscription, denounced British neocolonialism, praised the United Nations, and criticized congressional isolationists. |
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The United Nations was prompted to impose a ban on selling mainframe computers or laptops to North Korea. |
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The United Nations has expressed concern about the assault on bani Walid, 105 miles from Tripoli. |
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Today there are some 535,000 Syrian refugees registered in Jordan with the United Nations high commissioner for Refugees. |
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The United Nations peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, is the largest and best-funded in the world. |
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The United Nations high commissioner for Refugees reported that 3,419 others are known to have died at sea in 2014, so far. |
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Since then, according to the United Nations, around 300 people have been killed in the bloodshed. |
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Lemkin died penniless at a bus stop in 1959, on his way to another day lobbying at the United Nations. |
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In an interview, Dhina acknowledged that the application at the United Nations now is likely a long shot. |
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Gagnon has also served with the United Nations in senior posts in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda. |
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The warring factions resume peace talks at the United Nations today. |
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Someone called him a hermit crab lurking in the halls of the United Nations. |
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The use of depleted uranium in shells has been twice condemned as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations Commission on Minorities and Human Rights. |
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Amid the rising violence, the United Nations has evacuated staff and Turkey announced Friday it was shuttering its embassy. |
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A consortium of European countries led by Germany pledged funds to be shepherded by the United Nations. |
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Ms Johnson-Sirleaf boasts an Ivy League education and top postings in government and the United Nations, but is handicapped by her association with past failed governments. |
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Some, like the United States, even have a third embassy to the United Nations Organizations headquartered in the city. |
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It is understood that a Rainbow Republic legal delegation is already in New York seeking formal recognition of the new country, and membership of the United Nations. |
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In 1957 Nkrumah renamed the new country Ghana and obtained recognition from the United Nations as an independent member of the British Commonwealth. |
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According to the United Nations, 215,000 people were displaced by violence in Darfur in the first 11 weeks of this year. |
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It seemed that little Shirley Temple had grown up to be a delegate to the United Nations. |
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And maybe, just maybe, there are black helicopters with United Nations decals about to descend on heartland America. |
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The political leaders speak of United Nations resolutions, of unilateralism, of multilateralism, of weapons inspectors, of coercion and noncoercion. |
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The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal. |
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You remember, we were in such an all-fired hurry to get there, that we couldn't wait until the United Nations actually completed their search for weapons of mass destruction. |
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It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians. |
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Neither country can afford to stand aloof from the United Nations. |
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It reflects my personal belief in the objectivity of the United Nations narrative, and is only intended for setting the stage for analyzing Arafat's role in the events. |
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And, oh, by the way, they only speak to the dealer, United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, not to each other. |
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Her poster will soon be on its way to New York where posters from around the world will be judged at the United Nations in the international leg of the competition. |
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Responses were heard from the United Nations, the European Parliament, and human rights organizations from around the globe. |
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Moreover they know that if they become too flagrant in their suppression of opposition and commit atrocities, the United Nations stands ready to intervene to overthrow them. |
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But this should only be done under the auspices of the United Nations. |
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He wanders through the halls of the United Nations, passing out pamphlets and extolling his cause. |
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If the human rights committee of the United Nations makes recommendations, there are members in this House who would have those implemented in New Zealand lickety-split. |
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The United Nations updated that to 420, and New Zealand did likewise. |
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United Nations reports suggest that fm radio also was used to encourage young men to rape women from other ethnic groups. |
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Shashi Tharoor is the chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
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British troops were helping beleaguered United Nations peacekeepers. |
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Rather, they idealistically tend to believe that we should use our unparalleled military power judiciously and in concert with the United Nations. |
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She was tasked by Kofi Annan to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace, an appropriately meaningless, but distinguished, gong. |
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Last July, he was named an honorary fellow of UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, for his work in helping the world's most vulnerable children. |
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The NGO Forum was set up in part to address gaps in the humanitarian response, normally implemented by the United Nations. |
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Signaled its acceptance of the United Nations human-rights office in Rangoon. |
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Nicole Kidman stars as Silvia, an interpreter at the United Nations who overhears a conversation that might be a death threat against a visiting African head of state. |
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Iran should do more to protect its ethnic minorities such as Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday. |
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The UK became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. |
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Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and environmental law. |
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Additionally, 27 out of 28 EU countries have a very high Human Development Index, according to the United Nations Development Programme. |
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Both are officially recognised nuclear weapon states holding permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. |
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The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the OECD and the World Trade Organization. |
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Through its Science Policy Centre, the Society acts as an advisor to the European Commission and the United Nations on matters of science. |
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However, the name United Nations was rarely used to describe the Allies during the war. |
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When the United Nations was formed in 1945, it established trust territories. |
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The Commonwealth of Nations is represented in the United Nations General Assembly by the secretariat as an observer. |
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At issue was the extent to which Parliament has, by the United Nations Act 1946, delegated to the executive the power to legislate. |
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The International Narcotics Control Board of the United Nations imposes a world law of prohibition of certain drugs. |
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After this, he served as the British scientific advisor to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. |
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He was also appointed as the British scientific advisor to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. |
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Apart from its own conflicts, Pakistan has been an active participant in United Nations peacekeeping missions. |
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Bangladesh is one of the largest contributors of United Nations peacekeeping forces. |
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After independence, Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations. |
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Bangladesh traditionally places a heavy reliance on multilateral diplomacy, especially in the United Nations. |
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Bangladeshi diplomat Humayun Rashid Choudhury served as President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
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Its successor, the United Nations, amended this definition in 1945, by including a maximum stay of six months. |
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The United Nations Declaration and Universal Declaration of Human Rights also echo the American constitutional tradition. |
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Following the war, Neimeyer, along with Le Corbusier, conceived the form of the United Nations Headquarters constructed by Walter Harrison. |
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In April 2015, the United Nations appointed Craig the first global advocate for the elimination of mines and explosive hazards. |
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Fourthly, the IOC has every host city collaborate with the United Nations to work towards addressing environmental health objectives. |
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Overall, all such distinctions are also called subnational entities by the United Nations. |
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It was formed in 1937, and later became part of the United Nations as the Commission on the Status of Women. |
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Following the demise of the League, most of the remaining mandates became United Nations Trust Territories. |
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The designers of the structures of the United Nations intended to make it more effective than the League. |
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Roosevelt first coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries. |
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The decisions of the Council are known as United Nations Security Council resolutions. |
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Currently the international community comprises around 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of which are represented in the United Nations. |
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South Sudan is a member state of the United Nations, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. |
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Along with recovery and development aid, humanitarian projects were included in the 2007 Work Plan of the United Nations and partners. |
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It was one of the first organizations granted general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. |
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Data is taken from the United Nations Statistics Division unless otherwise noted. |
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United Nations Statistics Division's figure for the United States is 9,833,517 sq km and China is 9,596,961 sq km. |
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In 1957, she made a state visit to the United States, where she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Commonwealth. |
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In 1994, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda failed to intervene in the Rwandan Genocide in the face of Security Council indecision. |
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The press is not admitted, and other members of the United Nations cannot be invited into the consultations. |
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The Council of Europe holds observer status with the United Nations and is regularly represented in the UN General Assembly. |
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In 2010, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy proposed the establishment of a permanent G20 secretariat, similar to the United Nations. |
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It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and New York City is home to the United Nations Headquarters. |
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It has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and observer status at the International Labour Organization. |
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From 1953 to 2009 Poland was a large contributor to various United Nations peacekeeping missions. |
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It kept the emphasis on great power solidarity that was central to Roosevelt's Four Policemen proposal for the United Nations. |
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During this conference, the Big Four and their allies signed the United Nations Charter. |
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The United Nations also launched a series of humanitarian and relief efforts almost wholly funded by the United States. |
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Only late in the day did Beaufre and Stockwell learn of the acceptance of the United Nations ceasefire. |
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Egyptian sovereignty and ownership of the Canal had been confirmed by the United States and the United Nations. |
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The United Nations Security Council denounced Argentina's aggression, and France and other allies provided diplomatic and military support. |
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It has been argued that the invasion was fully legal because authorization was implied by the United Nations Security Council. |
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On 6 July 2010, Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations in New York City as queen of all 16 Commonwealth realms. |
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Both denied wrongdoing and the United Nations and Amnesty International said their rights had been violated at trial. |
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This gives the Commission enhanced access to the Human Rights Council, treaty bodies and other United Nations human rights bodies. |
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Part of the problem is that the transitional government does not act like the multiclan outfit envisioned by the United Nations. |
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It thus became the first specialised agency of the United Nations to which every member subscribed. |
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As part of the United Nations, the World Health Organization supports work towards the Millennium Development Goals. |
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The World Health Organization is a member of the United Nations Development Group. |
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The United Kingdom has been a leading member of the United Nations since its founding. |
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It debated its role in world affairs and joined the United Nations in 1945, NATO in 1949, where it became a close ally of the United States. |
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Her remarks were condemned by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. |
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While the United Nations held a travel conference in 1963, no passport guidelines resulted from it. |
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The United Nations is one of the organizations concerned by the Afghan government's order. |
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The best example is the definition of narcotics in the United Nations Conventions. |
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Somalia is also a member of many international organizations, such as the United Nations, African Union and Arab League. |
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It was founded in 2012 by the Somali diplomat Idd Mohamed, Ambassador extraordinary and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. |
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The term itself was first introduced in the late 1940s by the United Nations. |
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The absence of some experts and advisers, such as the United Nations, was deliberate, to avoid delay. |
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Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and established an official policy of neutrality. |
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The United Nations Human Development Index shows some correlation between higher standards of living and higher turnout. |
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It is also echoed in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
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It will not have the treaty rights and obligations of the old State and will not, of course, have membership in the United Nations. |
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In consequence, Russia agreed that it would acquire the USSR's seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. |
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A contemporary example is the United Nations coalition that intervened in the 2011 Libyan Civil War against Muammar Gaddafi. |
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The Chancellor of the University is Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG, a distinguished former diplomat and Ambassador to the United Nations. |
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Because of this, the UNFCCC, and another organization affiliated with the United Nations classified peat as a fossil fuel. |
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In June 2002, the United Nations Development Programme launched the Wetlands Ecosystem and Tropical Peat Swamp Forest Rehabilitation Project. |
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This was partly superseded by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. |
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This justification has been rejected by the United Nations and the international community. |
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The United Nations recognises the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus over the entire island of Cyprus. |
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In 1945, Norway, Denmark and Iceland were founding members of the United Nations. |
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The first Secretary General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian citizen. |
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France is a founding member of the United Nations and serves as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council with veto rights. |
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Italy strongly supports multilateral international politics, endorsing the United Nations and its international security activities. |
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It involved itself significantly in international peace efforts, especially through the United Nations, and in support to the Third World. |
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After World War II Spain was politically and economically isolated, and was kept out of the United Nations. |
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In 1960, the United Nations held another conference regarding the Laws of the Sea, UNCLOS II, but no agreements were reached. |
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Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter authorizes the UN Security Council to enforce Court rulings. |
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An advisory opinion is a function of the Court open only to specified United Nations bodies and agencies. |
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I shall always cherish the memorable occasion of our meetings at the United Nations. |
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Kennedy International Airport in New York, and the United Nations Headquarters. |
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This definition is used in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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Pearson eased tensions by proposing the inception of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Peacekeeping is one of the things that the United Nations, for all its foibles, does well. |
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Marine pollution was a major area of discussion during the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm. |
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The country was ranked second in the United Nations 2016 Human Development Index. |
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Not only to the UK Government, but to the United Nations and other organisations around the world. |
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According to the United Nations FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. |
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As the Union of South Africa, the country was a founding member of the United Nations. |
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The then Prime Minister Jan Smuts wrote the preamble to the United Nations Charter. |
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Luxembourg served on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2013 and 2014, which was a first in the country's history. |
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The largest, Russia, took the Soviet Union's seat on the United Nations Security Council. |
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Officially, the name Republic of Moldova is designated by the United Nations. |
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Three months later, on 2 March 1992, the country gained formal recognition as an independent state at the United Nations. |
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Following the Second World War, Iceland was a founding member of both the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
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Only in 2002 did Switzerland become a full member of the United Nations and it was the first state to join it by referendum. |
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Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the League of Nations and, later, the United Nations. |
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In 1962 the United Nations set up a Special Committee on Decolonization, often called the Committee of 24, to encourage this process. |
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Madagascar belongs to the group of least developed countries, according to the United Nations. |
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As of January 2017, 34 police officers from Madagascar are deployed in Haiti as part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. |
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In October 1999, the United Nations agreed to send peacekeepers to help restore order and disarm the rebels. |
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Following the League's replacement by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate. |
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In 1978 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 435, which laid out a plan for transition toward independence for Namibia. |
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The rebellion eventually reached the capital, and Aristide was forced into exile, after which the United Nations stationed peacekeepers in Haiti. |
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In 1992, Rio hosted the Earth Summit, a United Nations conference to fight environmental degradation. |
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At the end of the 1990s, a United Nations Development Program was launched with the aim of providing a close survey of the island of Socotra. |
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Officially, the constitution of Sri Lanka guarantees human rights as ratified by the United Nations. |
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Private institutions also exist as do establishments associated with organisations like the European Union and the United Nations. |
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Colombia proposed the idea of the Sustainable Development Goals and a final document was adopted by the United Nations. |
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On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became one of the founding members of the United Nations. |
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As a founding and active member of the United Nations, the Philippines has been elected several times into the Security Council. |
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In 2008, Mexico contributed over 40 million dollars to the United Nations regular budget. |
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Unilever Philippines has its corporate office along United Nations Avenue in Paco. |
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The United Nations put the Panamanian civilian death toll at 500, while other sources had higher statistics. |
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It is also a participant in international organizations such as the Organization of American States and the United Nations. |
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It also hosted the December 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference and the Miss Universe 1982 pageant. |
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In 2015, the United Nations University gave Vanuatu the highest natural disaster risk of all the countries it measured. |
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Roosevelt expected that the United Nations would take up the problem of decolonization. |
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The United Nations estimates that there are over 370 million indigenous people living in over 70 countries worldwide. |
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The United Nations has drawn criticism for relying too heavily on English, and not enough on the other five official languages. |
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In 2006, ASEAN was given observer status at the United Nations General Assembly. |
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The countries and territories in this table are categorised according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations. |
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