The United Nations System: The Policies of Member StatesChadwick F. Alger, Gene M. Lyons, John E. Trent United Nations University Press, 1995 - 510 pages The essays in this volume provide a comparative study of national policies towards the United Nations. Eight cases have been selected: Algeria, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each case study details a government's historical position on the United Nations, its past, present, and possible future expectations of the organization, and UN-related issues of special interest and the circumstances behind them. |
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... Committee of the UN General Assembly and spent many months politicking for independence in the lounges and corridors of UN Headquarters. Still later the United Nations quickly accepted the membership of states created out of the former ...
... Committee of the UN General Assembly and spent many months politicking for independence in the lounges and corridors of UN Headquarters. Still later the United Nations quickly accepted the membership of states created out of the former ...
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... Committee is created that is required to report to the council within 14 days . If no consensus has been achieved , the Conciliation Committee must report the reasons . The treaty also provides for the representation of specific ...
... Committee is created that is required to report to the council within 14 days . If no consensus has been achieved , the Conciliation Committee must report the reasons . The treaty also provides for the representation of specific ...
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... Committee of the General Assembly. But they might continue to be represented by the United States and Russia in the Disarmament Commission and in the First Committee of the General Assembly. Second, we need more creative visions of the ...
... Committee of the General Assembly. But they might continue to be represented by the United States and Russia in the Disarmament Commission and in the First Committee of the General Assembly. Second, we need more creative visions of the ...
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... Committee for Programme and Coordination ( CPC ) . Proposed programmes move from the CPC to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions ( ACABQ ) for financial and administrative review . During the Assembly itself ...
... Committee for Programme and Coordination ( CPC ) . Proposed programmes move from the CPC to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions ( ACABQ ) for financial and administrative review . During the Assembly itself ...
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... committee . Carried out over a period of three years , the Nordic Project produced a series of analytical studies ... committees in which all member states were represented and they had an overwhelming majority . Not only were the same ...
... committee . Carried out over a period of three years , the Nordic Project produced a series of analytical studies ... committees in which all member states were represented and they had an overwhelming majority . Not only were the same ...
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