The ideas around the United Nations were developed in the last years of World War II, particularly during the UN Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, the United States, beginning on April 25, 1945. The UN was officially created when a UN charter was ratified on October 24...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is ambitious.Consider his agenda and comments at the outset of the General Assembly's 62nd session in New York."This [Ban's first session at the helm] will be the most intense period of multilateral diplomacy ever in the United Nations' history," he ...
Why will the world’s population shrink? Because birthrates have plummeted. Many nations already have reached “below-replacement fertility” and others will reach that level in the near future. There’s nothing wrong with lower levels of fertility, of course. Families should be as big or smal...
Abbr.UKA country of western Europe comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Beginning with the kingdom of England, it was created by three acts of union: with Wales (1536), Scotland (1707), and Ireland (1801). At the height of its power in the 1800s, it ruled an em...
However, the immediate forerunner of the UN was the League of Nations (1919–39). Established under theTreaty of Versailles, this IGO emerged out of the ashes of World War I to become the first 20-century multipurpose intergovernmental body. In the League, we begin to see a further expansi...
a联合国成立之初就商定用5种工作语言,即英语、法语、西班牙语、俄语和汉语 Beginning the United Nations had been established decides with 5 kind of working languages, namely English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese [translate] 英语翻译 日语翻译 韩语翻译 德语翻译 法语翻译 俄语翻译 阿拉伯语翻译 ...
Must be FAA approved and be clearly marked with the original NHTSA label, must be approved by a foreign government with a label showing that the seat was manufactured under the standards of the United Nations, or must conform to the Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) 213 or 213.1...
Beginning of the Belfast City Hall Flag Protests On the evening of December 3, 2012, hundreds of protesters gather outsideBelfast City Hallas theBelfast City Councilvotes to limit the days that theUnion Jack, the flag of theUnited Kingdom, flies from City Hall. Since 1906, the flag has ...
Cubic was founded seventy years ago in the United States and is known for its innovation in both the transportation and the defense sector. Cubic is in particular the largest provider of Live Training Systems (LTS) to the North Atlantic Treaty Organizati
The United Nations Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the UN system. The head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General, who is nominated by the Security Council and appointed by the General Assembly for renewable five-year terms. The current Secretary-General is ...