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| | Reform of the United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, reformers have proposed that with incremental and simultaneous attention to these points, it is possible that the interests of the large and small nations might be reconciled through compromise in order to avert the anarchy and relative powerlessness of the present system which hamper the interests of both large and small nations. | | | It is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which was often criticised for the high-profile positions it gave to member states that did not guarantee the human rights of their own citizens. | | | In a dramatic development with just weeks to go to the Millennium+5 Summit, John Bolton, the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, tabled radical proposals diametrically opposed to those contained in In Larger Freedom. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_of_the_United_Nations
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| | The Online NewsHour: United Nations Reform Security Council Expansion PBS |
| | Part of a wider overhaul meant to strengthen and re-legitimize the United Nations following tensions over the Iraq war, the reform of the council also stems from demands from third-world countries and newly emerging economic and political powers for inclusion in a council they say fails to reflect the international community. | | | Since then, member states have fought bitterly over which of the 191 nations would gain the choicest seats on the council, perhaps joining Britain, France, China, Russia and United States -- the councils only veto-holding, permanent nations -- as the world community's judge and jury. | | | North Korea and South Korea dislike the idea of a permanent seat for Japan, the United Nations' second largest financial contributor after the United States. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/un_reform/sec_expansion.html
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| | United Nations Reform: Challenges and Prospects |
| | Such a distinguished panel of witnesses is evidence of the importance we attach to the reform of the United Nations. | | | But there are times when the United Nations, a permanent multilateral institution with universal membership and a charter that reflects the same values as the American Declaration of Independence and our United States Constitution, is the preferred instrument for America to advance its interests. | | | The Sierra Leone Special Court, a joint venture of the United Nations and the Sierra Leone Government, is helping to provide transitional justice to a society long ravaged by a brutal, bloody civil war. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa20055.000/hfa20055_0.HTM
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| | On United Nations Reform |
| | The United States will support a number of recommendations put forward by the Secretary General and his High Level Panel, but we are also actively pursuing our own reform agenda. | | | The United Nations is important in each of these countries as a peacekeeper, a mediator, a unified voice of the global community on very difficult issues. | | | It is therefore vital that the U.S. lead a the United Nations, that we have faith in the UN, pay our dues, promote reform and contribute to strengthen the UN for all the many challenges ahead. |
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http://www.state.gov/p/us/rm/2005/49900.htm
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| | United Nations Focus on Reform |
| | The United Nations General Assembly is in the midst of one of its most challenging and historic sessions as it focuses its attention on fundamental reform of the Organization. | | | The document is divided into three parts: an outline of objectives; the policy framework, including the means of implementation; and institutional issues and the recommended follow-up to the commitments made by governments during the cycle of major United Nations conferences held between 1990 and 1996. | | | Its 12 November endorsement by consensus of the actions taken by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revitalize the international body represents a major impetus to preparing the United Nations for the challenges it must face in the twenty-first century. |
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| | Choike - UN reform |
| | The mission of the Center for UN Reform Education is to encourage, generate and sustain a serious public discussion of various specific proposals to reform and restructure the United Nations System, all with a view toward improving the effectiveness of that System. | | | Despite the fact that the United States was one of the driving forces behind establishing the United Nations in 1945 and initiated many of the multilateral treaties that have encouraged cooperation on our planet, there has been a steady decline in the U.S. governments support of the UN and the agreements it helped establish. | | | United Nations Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. |
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http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2266.html
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| | Reform of the United Nations Security Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Reform of the United Nations Security Council encompasses a variety of proposals, including procedural reforms, such as eliminating the veto held by the five permanent members, and expansion of the Council. | | | (See also Israel and the United Nations.) One of the main drives behind this are situations in which all but one of the fifteen nations on the Security Council vote to support a measure that is relatively unimportant, such as administrative decisions. | | | That's why the United States unambiguously supports a permanent seat for Japan on the United Nations Security Council"[2]. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council
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| | Empower the United Nations ! |
| | In the context of not only the unfulfilled promises of the UN Charter, but also the justifiable aspirations and expectations of citizens of every state and nation, it ought not be forgotten that a universal spirit of democracy was embedded in the collective establishment of the United Nations. | | | The conference - whose theme was "Toward a Democratic United Nations for the 21st Century" - included representatives of NGO's that have been active at the United Nations and who met for the purpose to prepare a plan of action to strengthen and improve the United Nations. | | | It is necessary to mandate and involve more effectively not only Member States and their political leaders, but also all peoples, acting within the framework of the United Nations system. |
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http://www.empowertheun.org/reformingun.html
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| | Suggested Revisions to the Charter of the United Nations |
| | All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, AND ALL NATIONS, WHETHER MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR NOT, AND ALL NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT. | | | The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fifty-four Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. | | | The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General Assembly. |
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| | GovTrack: H.R. 2745: Text of Legislation |
| | 4 (a) SHORT TITLE.--This Act may be cited as the 5 ``Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act of 2005''. | | | II Calendar No. 133 109TH CONGRESS H. Received and read the first time JUNE 21, 2005 Read the second time and placed on the calendar AN ACT To reform the United Nations, and for other purposes. | | | The 6 United Nations should strengthen the 5.6 rule by requir- 7 ing that managers identify the lowest priority activities 8 equivalent to 15 percent of their budget request or face 9 an across the board reduction of such amount. |
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| | The Online NewsHour: United Nations Reform Buildup to Reform PBS |
| | During the 1990s North Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a successful effort to withhold funding from the United Nations unless it heeded calls for reform. | | | "United Nations" and "reform" are often "apt to be mentioned in the same breath," the Economist magazine wrote almost a decade ago. | | | In spite of opposition in political and cultural realms in the 1990s, the Economist reported that two thirds of Americans thought the United States should cooperate with the United Nations. |
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| | __/ Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations \__ |
| | In September 2005, world leaders gathered in New York to lay the foundation for a fundamental reform of the United Nations system. | | | In view of the upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the subsequent need to reinforce MONUC in order to ensure the smooth conduct of the electoral process, the United Nations requested the European Union to provide a force to support MONUC during the electoral period. | | | Asia’s turn for the post of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations |
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| | Scoop: A Report Card on Reform of the United Nations |
| | Your continued scrutiny and attention to both the reform of the United Nations and critical matters related to international peace and security discussed by the Security Council are vital. | | | Although the United States is often accused of unilateralism, we have pursued multilateral efforts through the IAEA and in conjunction with the EU3, Russia, other like-minded nations and now the United Nations. | | | Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
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| | For a Strong and Democratic United Nations - Table of Contents |
| | For a Strong and Democratic United Nations: A South Perspective on UN Reform was first published in March 1996 by the South Centre, Chemin du Champ-d'Anier 17, 1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland in association with the Government of Indonesia, as the Chair Country of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1992-1995. | | | Developing Countries and the Reform of the United Nations | | | For a Strong and Democratic United Nations - Table of Contents |
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| | Welcome to the United States Mission to the United Nations |
| | Welcome to the United States Mission to the United Nations | | | U.S. Participation in the United Nations for 2004, September 2005 | | | Statement on "Investing in the United Nations" in the Fifth Committee by Ambassador Wallace |
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| | United States and U.N. Reform - US Department of State |
| | Management reform at the United Nations is at the top of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s agenda, says Kristen Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She tells an audience in Washington that the United States needs “to see some serious, tangible progress in the short term, and long-term commitment” to reform. | | | Although the United States will not be a member of the newly formed United Nations Human Rights Council, it will observe and support the work of the council, and will advocate the membership of countries that are “genuinely committed to human rights,” says Mark Lagon, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. | | | The League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations (©AP/WWP) |
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| | BWNS: Baha'is address historic UN hearings |
| | UNITED NATIONS, 5 July 2005 (BWNS) -- A representative of the Baha'i International Community outlined specific recommendations for reform of the United Nations during an address at historic hearings between non-governmental organizations and the UN General Assembly. | | | Diane Ala'i, a representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations in Geneva, prepares for her role as an "active participant" on 23 June 2005 at the United Nations during informal interactive hearings with the UN General Assembly. | | | The Baha'i International Community's representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Diane Ala'i, was also chosen as an "active participant" in the hearing on human rights, which was held 23 June. |
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| | Calendar Reform at the United Nations |
| | In the United Nations, the issue of world calendar reform was formally raised by India with the lodgement of the document below in 1953. | | | The subject of Calendar Reform has been exhaustively studied by the United Nations Secretariat as shown in a report by the Secretary-General in document E/465, dated 14 July 1947. | | | Communication dated 28 October from the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations to the Secretary-General |
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| | UNICEF hails United Nations reform plan |
| | Wednesday, 16 July 1997: The bold recommendations for reform announced today by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan grew out of a vision of a UN family dedicated to the most effective possible service to humanity, especially the world's children, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said. | | | "UNICEF remains as committed to the reform of the entire UN as we are to our own two-year-old reform process and we and our colleagues in the United Nations and in its Funds and Programmes will work vigorously with the Secretary-General to help implement these measures." | | | Bellamy said she was gratified at the report's emphatic references to the importance of preserving the identity and distinctiveness of the United Nations Funds and Programmes. |
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| | Suggested Revisions to the Charter of the United Nations |
| | All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, AND ALL NATIONS, WHETHER MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR NOT, AND ALL NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT. | | | In discharging these duties the Security Council shall act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. | | | All members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the provisions of the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action. |
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| | United Nations |
| | The United Nations is currently engaged in one of the most important debates in its history: how to reform itself, strengthen itself as an institution, and ensure that it addresses effectively the threats and challenges of the 21st century. | | | In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt, flanked by the leaders of 26 Allied countries, first coined the term "United Nations" to describe the continued fight against the Axis Powers. | | | Under the UN Charter, the chief administrative officer of the UN and the head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed to a five-year term by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. |
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| | Encyclopedia: UN Trusteeship Council |
| | In March 2005, however, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed a sweeping reform of the United Nations, including an expansion of the Security Council. | | | Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. | | | The United Nations Secretariat is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. |
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| | Welcome to UNDP Serbia and Montenegro |
| | UNDP will continue to support judicial education, judicial system reform and the promotion of transitional justice issues. | | | UNDP will help establish policies to assist in the reform of the legal aid system, allowing all citizens’ access to justice and ensuring equality before the law. | | | UNDP strives to establish an independent and efficient judiciary through the professional advancement of judges and prosecutors, and increased international and regional judicial cooperation. |
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| | USCFL - What is wrong with the United Nations? |
| | Needless to say, any reform of the United Nations Organization will be boycotted by two kinds of countries: | | | The United Nations is an organization of "governments", not of "nations": the vast majority of the world's population is not represented at the United Nations. | | | I did not vote for this president, therefore I am not represented at the United Nations. |
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| | UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum |
| | The United States and Russia would probably not have accepted the creation of the United Nations without the veto privilege. | | | The five permanent members of the Security Council (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States) enjoy the privilege of veto power. | | | Towards a Democratic Reform of the UN Security Council (July 13, 2005) |
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| | Appendices - Global Policy and the United Nations Security Council - Giji Gya |
| | On November 23rd, the resolution was unanimously approved (GA/53/30) such that any charter amendment on Security Council reform must have a majority of at least two thirds of General Assembly vote. | | | Malone, David, Decision-Making in the United Nations Security Council - The Case of Haiti, 1990-97, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. | | | On 24 December 1991 the membership of the Soviet Union in the Security Council and all other UN organs was to be continued by the Russian Federation as presented in a letter to the UN by the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin. |
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| | Position Paper of the People's Republic of China on the United Nations Reforms - The Millennium Summit and Its Follow-Up - Global Policy Forum |
| | China is in favor of and supports the reform of UN human rights bodies. | | | China welcomes and supports the reforms of the UN in economic and social fields, and is of the view that the reforms should comply with the orientations, principles, objectives and emphasis defined by the relevant UNGA resolutions, and should be government-led. | | | Like many other nations, China is not in favor of the interceptive measures taken by the Proliferation Security Initiative beyond the international law. |
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| | Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice |
| | The Unit also prepares assessment tools and manuals in all areas of criminal justice reform and based on the set of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, with particular emphasis on the needs of vulnerable groups and of post-conflict and transitional societies. | | | Terrorism constitutes a threat to international peace and security, and it is contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. | | | The United Nations has acknowledged the importance of crime prevention and criminal justice since 1950, when it helped countries to set standards for fair and efficient criminal justice systems. |
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| | EU urged to lead in U.N. reform - (United Press International) |
| | Annan noted the steady growth in recent years in cooperation between Europe and the United Nations and said the strength of that partnership "gives me great hope" that far-reaching progress can be made on readying the international community to meet the threats of the 21st century. | | | "Full European engagement will be essential" to discussions on the recently released report of a high-level panel he commissioned to look at emerging global threats and challenges and ways to deal with them at the United Nations, he told the European Union summit Friday in Brussels. | | | EU urged to lead in U.N. reform - (United Press International) |
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