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Emergency:
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Urging greater generosity, Annan arrives in Pakistan for
quake donor conference FULL STORY>>
Secretary-General
Kofi Annan speaking to the press,
upon his arrival in Islamabad,
Pakistan, where he was greeted on
his arrival by Pakistani Foreign
Minister Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri
(next to Mr. Annan). 17
November 2005 UN Photo/Mark Garten
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The
UN and Arms
Control
Dr
Hans Blix,
the former Foreign Minister of Sweden,
was most recently the head of the
UN’s weapons inspection team in
Iraq.
Before that, from 1981 to 1997,
he was the Director General of the
International Atomic Energy Agency in
which capacity he oversaw the
dismantling of Iraq’s nuclear
weapons program.
He was a delegate to
the UN General Assembly for 20 years
and to the Conference on Disarmament
in Geneva for 16.
Chairman,
Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission
Former
Executive Chairman of United Nations
Monitoring, Verification and
Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
Director-General
Emeritus of the IAEA
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UNITED NATIONS -
18 November 2005 / www.MaximsNews.com/ Dag
Hammarskjold was born in Uppsala,
Sweden, 100 years ago. I am pleased to
note here in Paris that the French
government was instrumental in his
election as Secretary-General of the UN.
He demonstrated exceptional skill and
integrity and enabled the UN and the
office of the S-G to take on important
new tasks.
He
become famous for using the S-Gs office
for quiet diplomacy to help solve
various crises.
But he also used his office as a
platform to publicly criticize state
actions which, in his view, gravely
violated the UN Charter.
His most famous innovation was the idea and practice of
sending “UN helmets” to calm and
control areas of conflict. Peace keeping
was born under his watch and he died in
1961 on a visit to the UN peace keeping
mission to the Congo.
Hammarskjold
had a vision how the world community
could take on some of the features,
which allow states to maintain peace,
uphold the rule of law, promote economic
development and bring about greater
equality for their citizens.
I
agree with this thinking and believe
that in the very long run this is how
the world will develop. At the regional
level Europe is slowly but clearly
moving in this direction.
It
has been suggested that the US is like
an impatient Mars quick to use force to
solve problems, while Europe is like a
patient Venus, eschewing force and
endlessly negotiating to solutions.
Without denying that the use of force
may be indispensable sometimes I prefer
Venus. The whole world would do well to
become a bit more feminist. FULL
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2005
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December
2nd at the United Nations
2003
Annual UNCA Awards Dinner. Tony
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the first UNCA Citizen of the World
Award; U.N. First Lady, Nane Annan
and Ian Williams, Master of Ceremony.
Reception/6:30
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U.N.
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Honouring
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MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
sponsored
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Secretary
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The
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missions, worldwide.
The
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the $10,000 Ricardo Ortega Memorial
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The
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second prize, $3,000 third prize and ten
honourable mention plaques.
For
more information please contact Clair
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"Unlike
some natural disasters, in which victims
die immediately, the death toll in
Pakistan is not over yet.
"An estimated
three million men, women and children
are homeless. Many of them have no
blankets or tents to protect them
against the merciless Himalayan winter."
-- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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