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83 unusual facts about United Nations


Alfons Benedikter

In the 1960s Benedikter repeatedly represented South Tyrol within the UN in New York, when the issue was debated as a major international conflict between Austria and Italy.

Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care

The ATACC DRT, affiliated with the United Nations, has responded to many international disasters and has been involved in many international disaster response training exercises.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Ashes of Empire

Gameplay involved working as a member of a fictional UN/NATO-type organisation to recruit followers across various CIS-inspired republics being threatened by a powerful neighbour.

Automotive industry in North Korea

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not involved with the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) or any other United Nations industrial committee, so information about its motor vehicle industry is limited.

Beekman Place

Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a precipice overlooking the glass office towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza in the United Nations complex.

Bouri Field

This decline was largely a result of the country's inability to import enhanced oil recovery (EOR) equipment under United Nations sanctions, specifically Security Council Resolution 883 of November 11, 1993, which banned Libya from importing refinery equipment.

British Housewives' League

The BHL concerns are that it has been carefully designed to change the world forever and will set the world on a course of global governance under the authority of the United Nations.

C. Turner Joy

From July 1951 until May 1952 he was also the senior United Nations Delegate to the Korean Armistice talks.

Calendar

The United Nations considered adopting such a reformed calendar for a while in the 1950s, but these proposals have lost most of their popularity.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

To settle the struggle between Loris and Alexis, the British get the United Nations to partition the island.

CFB Kingston

On September 1, 1988, the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters was established to serve as a staging base for the deployment of troops and materiel on active operations; in this role it supported Operation Friction which was Canada's support to the United Nations for the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Declaration of Delhi

These include the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and the Declaration of Delhi or New Delhi Congress (1959).

Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts

Tenor saxophonist Harold Ashby is featured on The Brotherhood, which is a tribute to The United Nations.

Dwight Dickinson

Dickinson ended his naval caraeer as a Lieutenant Commander in the Supply Corps in 1946 and entered the United States Foreign Service, where he was posted to assignments in Curaçao, Mexico City, Beirut and Paris, as well as two tours in Washington and to the US mission to the United Nations in 1960 and 1962, at which time he was political advisor and alternate US representative to the Unitre Trusteeship Council.

Envelope

Although as regards e-mail developments there is a substantial threat of "technology replacing tradition", this is offset by the equal reasoning that the Universal Postal Union is an international specialised agency of the United Nations, and a source of revenue for government.

Explosive weapon

Taken in combination, Amended Protocol II and Protocol V to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons establish a responsibility on the users of explosive weapons to record and retain information on their use of such weapons (including the location of use and the type and quantity of weapons used), to provide such information to parties in control of territory that may be affected by UXO, and to assist with the removal of this threat.

Factory Green

Factory Green donated a portion of its revenue to the United Nations Water For Life organization which provides clean water to under-served populations around the globe.

Ferdinand J. Chesarek

On July 8, 1968, General Chesarek was appointed Senior U.S. Army Member of the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations, in addition to his primary duty as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff.

Foreign relations of Singapore

March 1981 – Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Tommy Koh, assumed the Presidency of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Gabriele Moreno Locatelli

The organization was there to deliver mail, assist the United Nations military in delivering food and clothing, and bring water and assistance to elderly and sick civilians in Sarajevo during the siege of Sarajevo.

Gaspard Fauteux

In Parliament, Fauteux opposed conscription and was a delegate to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Conference that followed World War II.

Global Marshall Plan Initiative

In September 2000 the United Nations (UN) came together at the General Assembly to discuss the most important challenges in the coming decade.

Godtfred Holmvang

He worked for the United Nations in New York to develop international maritime law.

Gord Mills

Mills received a General Service Medal from NATO (1964–67), a Canadian Forces Decoration (1970), a United Nations medal (1971) and a Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada (1992).

Group entity

The Iks, a people he used as example, were not longer able to hunt and pursue their forest lifestyle, and when forced to become farmers were reduced to playing cruel practical jokes on each other, revelling in each other's errors and misfortunes, and squabbling in ways that reminded Thomas of the United Nations, i.e. not very united at all, and not reflective of a real 'society'.

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act

Today, law enforcement agencies, popular media, the United Nations, other nations and even some medical practitioners can be observed applying the term very broadly and often pejoratively in reference to a wide range of illicit substances, regardless of the more precise definition existing in medical contexts.

Hatif Welfare Society

On 7 May 1992, and later on with Women Development division, and Bait-ul-Maal Government of Punjab Pakistan and United Nations.

Hollow Nickel Case

But it was not until KGB agent Reino Häyhänen (aka Eugene Nicolai Mäki) wanted to defect in May 1957 from Paris, that the FBI was able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Mikhail Nikolaevich Svirin (a former United Nations employee) and Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher.

Homer Litzenberg

There, he served as Senior Member of the United Nations Command component of the Military Armistice Commission, negotiating with the Communists at Panmunjom.

Industry Center for Trade Negotiations

Hollis recognized the ICTN could not maintain momentum and its budget commitments in such an environment and returned stateside after arranging for a freelance journalist, accredited before the Palais des Nations (United Nations) for press briefings to forward reports to ICTN subscribers.

Japanese in New York City

Japanese officials connected with the United Nations arrived in the 1950s and businesspeople associated with Japanese companies began arriving in the late 1950s.

Jesse Helms Center

A large United Nations exhibit includes this quotation from Vice President Joe Biden: "Just as only Nixon could go to China, only Helms could fix the U.N.", a reference to Helms' reform initiatives regarding the world body.

Judith Jasmin

In 1966, Radio-Canada named Jasmin their United Nations correspondent and, later, their Washington correspondent.

July 2006 in the Middle East

Four UN peace keepers die after, being, according to the United Nations, shelled 14 times by Israeli artillery, and a rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.

Kathleen A. McGrath

In the spring of 2000, during her command of the Jarrett,and just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships, the ship deployed to the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, hunting boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions.

KC Concepcion

KC Concepcion (born Maria Kristina Cassandra Cuneta Concepcion on April 7, 1985) is an actress and singer from the Philippines who is currently a National Ambassador Against Hunger of the UN's World Food Programme.

Kenya Army

To-date, Kenyan United Nations Peace-Keepers have served in 16 different countries in Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Asia.

Kosovo Security Force

KFOR entered Kosovo on June 12, 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

Land mines in North Africa

One of United Nations's missions estimated that there are 19.7 million mines in the western desert of Egypt.

Laughlin Air Force Base

The film from Major Heyser's mission was developed, analyzed and the photos were shown to the United Nations Security Council on October 22, 1962, proving to the world, that offensive missiles were on the island of Cuba.

Leon W. Johnson

He was appointed in July 1953, U.S. Air Force Representative, Military Staff Committee, United Nations in addition to his primary duty as Continental Air Command commander.

LGBT rights in Nigeria

Nigeria has been widely criticized by human and civil rights organizations, as well as the United Nations, for failing to uphold, and even violating, the rights of LGBT people.

Liberal Reformers

Internationally Liberal Reformers, alongside with the Italian Radicals, were members of the Transnational Radical Party, a NGO working at the United Nations level.

Lieutenant Green

She is knowledgeable about all aspects of Spectrum, and used to work for the United Nations.

Mine clearance agency

Fourteen United Nations departments, programmes, agencies and funds are directly or indirectly involved in mine action.

Mission Ustaad

Featuring eight famous Indian singers as contestants, the show aimed to create awareness about the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the country.

Moisés da Costa Amaral

Within the United Nations this was the first big step that led to the so desired independence of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

In August 12, 1988, and after several years of diplomatic struggle, finally a Timorese delegation had the opportunity to defend the right to the self determination of the Timorese people within the United Nations.

Moishe Lewis

His grandson Stephen Lewis was leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1970s and later Canada's ambassador to the United Nations.

Mourad Topalian

But the most serious charge against Topalian was that of involvement in a car bombing that injured three people outside the Turkish Mission to the United Nations in New York City in October 1980.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein

He was also deeply involved in international drug control through his service as advisor to the United States negotiators in the United Nations committees dealing with the matter.

Orthodox Development

The gross national product of a country has continually been used by intergovernmental organisations such as the UN, to equate their economical stance to their level of 'development'.

P. D. Gaitonde

In that capacity, he visited several countries including the United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Sweden and USSR, and was at the United Nations representing the case of Portuguese colonies in general and Goa in particular.

Pannella List

When the Radical Party was transformed into Transnational Radical Party, a NGO working at the UN level and coordinating the efforts of several national parties and groupings mainly in support of human rights, in 1989, the Italian Radicals were free to join the party of their choice.

Politics of Nigeria

In 1960, Nigeria joined both the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations; however, they were briefly suspended between 1995 and 1999.

Public Genomics

branch that was initiated by public organizations such as governments, discontrol centers, and the UN.

Quartet Principles

The Quartet is a diplomatic entity that is composed of the United Nations, European Union, Russia, and the United States, and is involved with mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Reginald Crook, 1st Baron Crook

Reginald Douglas Crook, 1st Baron Crook (2 March 1901-10 March 1989), was a British civil servant and United Nations official.

Reparations for slavery

In 2011, Antigua & Barbuda called for reparations at the United Nations, saying "that segregation and violence against people of African descent had impaired their capacity for advancement as nations, communities and individuals".

Rice People

For a generation of children, the rice comes not from the ground, but from a sack, offloaded from the back of a United Nations relief truck.

Ritam Nereda

Before the album release, the German authorities took over the album recordings, claiming that the label was breaking the economic sanctions imposed to Yugoslavia by the United Nations, but, after a compromise, made with the help of UNICEF, the album release was allowed.

Sakurajima

In light of the dangers it presents to nearby populations, Sakurajima was designated a Decade Volcano in 1991, identifying it as worthy of particular study as part of the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Service club

Many of the service club organizations have become world-wide movements, and have obtained official recognition by the United Nations and various governments as non-government organizations

Social accounting matrix

flows in mind, but are rather grouped together in different categories according to the United Nations Standardised National Accounting (SNA) Guidelines.

Telephone numbers in South Sudan

South Sudan has been issued the +211 code by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the government said it would become active within 48 hours of recognition of the country by the United Nations.

The Far Shore of Time

Dannerman and his alien friends are again interrogated by the American government and representatives of the United Nations, although more gently than his previous interrogators.

The King of Braves GaoGaiGar

Examples include Renais Kerdif-Shishioh (main character of the aforementioned novel) and Rose Approval (secretary general of the United Nations as seen in the aforementioned PlayStation game).

The Stardroppers

The Stardroppers is about an undercover United Nations agent investigating a new fad, "stardropping", whereby physics-violating equipment is used to listen to sounds believed to be alien or paranormal signals.

The Syrian Bride

Following the hostilities between Israel and Syria there is now the demilitarised UNDOF zone between occupied Golan and Syria observed by United Nations staff.

United Nations Reform Act of 2005

On June 17, 2005, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R.2745, a bill to cut funds to the United Nations in half by 2008 if it did not meet with certain criteria laid out in the legislation.

United Nations Regional Groups

The member states of the United Nations are unofficially divided into five geopolitical regional groups.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 4

United Nations Security Council Resolution 4, adopted on April 29, 1946, condemned the Franco regime in Spain and formed a sub-committee to decide whether or not his rule was leading to international friction, and if so, what to do about it.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 7

United Nations Security Council Resolution 7, adopted on June 26, 1946, concerned the impact of Spain's dictatorship on international peace and security.

United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats

The regional subcommitteess also oversee the activities of the United Nations and its programs in the region.

United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

The regional subcommittees also oversee the activities of the United Nations and its programs in the region.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

It also manages the Peace Corps, the Export-Import Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and United States contributions to the International Monetary Fund and United Nations activities.

Universal Periodic Review

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) that emerged from the 2005 UN reform process.

Victoria Park, Hong Kong

Meanwhile, 140 member states of the United Nations are represented in this exhibition that has been shown in 20 metropolises on all 5 continents so far.

Wasp

The study called for lentil feeding stations to be installed for wasps across the world so as to reduce the risk of stings, but this was labelled "preposterous and ultimately a waste of money" by a senior United Nations politician.

Westminster College Gymnasium

Westminster College Gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri was the site of Winston Churchill's March 5, 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech, in which he stated that "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." The speech at Westminster College focused on the United Nations, nuclear proliferation and Soviet expansion.

Wilbur L. Creech

After two and one-half years as commander of Electronic Systems Division, General Creech was transferred to Washington, D.C., where he served concurrently as the assistant vice chief of staff, assistant to the Chief of Staff for Readiness and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation matters and senior U.S. Air Force member, Military Staff Committee, United Nations.

Zeist

(See the article on the trial and the reports on the trial at Camp Zeist by United Nations observer Dr. Hans Köchler: Hans Köchler's Lockerbie trial observer mission.)


2007 Sudan floods

The Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations, Oluseyi Bajulaiye, then launched an appeal on 28 August to the international community, requesting US$ 20.2 million in funding for the ongoing response.

302d Fighter Squadron

With the transition of AFRES to Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), the squadron deployed several times since late 1992 to Turkey to help enforce the no-fly zone over Iraq and to Italy to support UN air operations in the Balkans.

Africa: Open for Business

Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, said to director Pineau of the film, "Your analysis of the situation in Africa was very perceptive, and much more balanced than one usually finds in articles about the continent".

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution

The article also states that, to accomplish these aims, armed forces with war potential will not be maintained, although Japan maintains de facto armed forces, referred to as the Japan Self-Defense Forces which may have originally been thought of as something akin to what Mahatma Gandhi called the Shanti Sena (soldiers of peace) or a collective security police (peace keeping) force operating under the United Nations.

Balachandra Rajan

During that period he served on the Indian Delegation to the United Nations, working extensively with UNESCO and UNICEF, and chairing an international anti-malaria effort.

Brian Tobin

Later that month, Tobin conducted an international news conference from a barge on the East River outside the United Nations headquarters and dramatically displayed an illegal, under Canadian Law, trawl net that had allegedly been cut from a Spanish trawler which was arrested outside the Canadian EEZ, on international waters.

Dana Wolfe

She worked as a researcher for Ambassador Benjamin Netenyahu during his time as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations before becoming Assistant Managing Editor at the Washington D.C. based foreign policy journal The National Interest.

Detroit Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Dileep Nair

In 2000, he wanted to determine vulnerability of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq.

Ecoagriculture

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious targets which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, were put forth by the United Nations in 2000, to be achieved by 2015.

Foreign relations of Ecuador

Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies; it is also a member of the OAS.

IntelCenter

2 April 2008: An online audiofile, in which Al-Zawahiri called the United Nations an enemy of Islam, was released via IntelCenter by As-Sahab (according to IntelCenter).

Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the WIPO is a specialized agency that is funded by the United Nations in order to provide a more efficient, worldwide intellectual property system.

Jeremy Monteiro

On November 28, 2003, Monteiro was conferred the "Lifting Up The World With A Oneness-Heart" lifetime achievement Award by Sri Chinmoy, who is the leader of the interfaith Peace Meditation at the UN (since 1970) and also the leader of the International Peace Centre.

Jirisan

After United Nations forces took the area a considerable number of North Koreans remained in the mountains, where they continued a guerrilla war until finally beaten in 1955, two years after the cease fire was signed by the belligerents.

July 2006 in the Middle East

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in the Middle East.

Jyrki Otila

Otila worked as assistant office chief of YLE from 1965 to 1970, in the United Nations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1970 to 1973, in YLE in 1974, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as a development aid expert in Tanzania from 1975 to 1977, and as a factory chief for the Orion Corporation in Arusha, Tanzania from 1977 to 1980.

Mark Rosenthal

According to Rosenthal, Reeve and director Sidney J. Furie begged Cannon Films to film a sequence in New York in front of the real United Nations Building because filmgoers were very familiar with that location, but the Milton Keynes setting looked more like a municipal auditorium,.

Mian Ghulam Jilani

He fought a guerrilla war in northern Kashmir, engaged two divisions of the Indian Army and conquered the whole of Baltistan and was about to attack Leh, when the government of Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire at the behest of the United Nations.

Mount Unzen

Mount Unzen was designated a Decade Volcano by the United Nations, in 1991 as part of their International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, due to its history of violent activity and location in a densely populated area.

Nabil Sayadi

He is accused that he transferred 200,000 Euros to Al-Qaeda financier Mohammed Zouaydi, which caused him to be placed on FBI and United Nations watch-lists along with his wife and GRF secretary Patricia Vinck.

No. 5 Squadron RAAF

In the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, the squadron contributed Iroquois to United Nations missions to Egypt, firstly to Ismailia with the United Nations Emergency Force and then later to the Sinai as part of the Multinational Force and Observers.

Our Man in Marrakesh

One of six travellers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes.

Phil Noble

After retiring from campaign politics in the 1990s, Noble began focusing on developing major interactive civic engagement technology projects with clients such as the BBC, European Union, United Nations, Amnesty International, and The Aspen Institute.

Ragheb Alama

Of the companies that endorsed Ragheb and featured him as part of their promotions including United Nations, Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Malaysian Ministry of Tourism, Malaysia Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Persol, The Pearl-Qatar.

Reginald Crook, 1st Baron Crook

He was a Delegate to the United Nations and notably served as Vice-President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal between 1952 and 1971.

Seville, California

In March 2011, Catarina de Albuquerque of the United Nations visited Seville to evaluate the community's water system.

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

Tom Connally

He was also a member and vice-chairman to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945 that chartered the United Nations.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 10

United Nations Security Council Resolution 10, adopted on November 4, 1946, determined that the Franco regime in Spain no longer warranted the continuous observation of the Council and turned over all related documents to the General Assembly.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 191

United Nations Security Council Resolution 191, adopted on June 18, 1964, after reiterating its previous requests of the Republic of South Africa and again condemning apartheid, the Council decided to establish a Group of Experts made up of representatives of all the then current members of the Council to study the feasibility and effectiveness of measures which could be taken by the Council under the Charter.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

This includes the general oversight responsibility for the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the U.S. Foreign Service, and public diplomacy and United States participation in the United Nations, its affiliated organizations, and other international organizations not under the jurisdiction of other subcommittees.

Vladimir Kagan

Early work included furniture for the Delegate's Cocktail Lounge at the United Nations and furniture for the "Monsanto House of the Future" at Disneyland.

Warren W. Tichenor

Warren W. Tichenor (born in Harlingen, Texas in 1960) served as the nation's 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, serving under President George W. Bush, having been sworn in on 12 June 2006 after being confirmed by a unanimous vote of the United States Senate on 26 May 2006.

White Flag incident

LTTE's Political Wing leader Balasingham Nadesan and Pulidevan agreed to surrender and they contacted the United Nations, the governments of Norway, United Kingdom, USA and also ICRC and had been assured by Mahinda Rajapaksa and told to surrender at a particular place by the Basil Rajapakse.

William Evans Hall

After the war he was placed in charge of the United States Continental Air Command, an organization of more than 15,000 military personnel and over 8,000 civilian employees, and served as Senior Member and Air Force Representative to the United Nations Military Staff Committee in New York.

William Maurice Brown

William Maurice Brown, Lt. Colonel, Squadron Leader, recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations, New Zealand government minister, mountain climber, shooter, boxer, teacher, administrator, the founder of Faujdarhat Cadet College had left his disciples for eternal peace but his legend will continue to live.