Middle East, term applied to a region that includes SW Asia and part of NE Africa, lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the Arabian...
It seems that the organization, including its system of decision-making, its mandate, its staffing, and its budget level, is much in need of modernization to adapt to post-2000 globalization. This is a world that is very different from the confrontation with the “Seven Sisters” in 1959, ...
United Nations development system support to the implementation of the Buenos Airesplanofaction on technicalco-operationamong developingcountriesconcluded that since virtually all the governing bodies of the United Nations system had endorsed the BAPA, there was no need for a new system-wide mandate. ...
Trump and his advisers say his November victory gives him a clear mandate to deliver on that promise. CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Jon Feere's name. Lead Art: Argo, a Transportation Security Administration explosives detection canine, working with handler Jo...
In principle, the conduct of peacekeeping forces was attributable to the United Nations, but if the injured State demonstrated to the extent that it was able that a violation by peacekeeping troops was an infringement of their United Nations mandate, the conduct in question should be attributed to...
the broadened mandate given by the Heads of State and Government of the Group of Twenty (London Summit, 2 April 2009, ‘Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System’); (3) the call of the Heads of State and Government of the Group of Twenty to re-establish theFSB‘with a stronger ...
CHAPTER 12 Other Countries Are Small Countries, and That's Just a Fact: Singapore's Efforts to Navigate US–China Strategic Rivalry Ja Ian Chong Then-Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, emphatically reminded members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the 2010 ASEAN ...
Some Jews also managed to go to Palestine, although immigration there was limited by the British mandate then in power. More of the Jews, therefore, emigrated to the USA. Special case: Klaipėda Region and Lithuania Minor. Germany considered people of Klaipėda Region and Lithuania Minor to ...
The amendment contravenes the Geneva Convention (1949) and the Dublin Regulation of the European Union (EU) and would mandate that Slovenia formally withdrew from the Convention should the Constitutional Court confirm the amendment.Footnote 5 According to the Slovenian Constitution, the right to ...
MACAUlike Hong Kong has opened gradually since late 2022 and on 27 February 2023dispensed with its mask mandateas well. Masks are still required on public transport. The city is bustling with newfound vigour. Earlier, travellers required a 14-day quarantine with further self-checks till day 21...