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UN membership is open to all "peace-loving states" that accept the obligations of the UN Charter and, in the judgement of the organization, are able and willing to fulfil these obligations.
UN peace operations are funded by assessments, using a formula derived from the regular scale, but including a surcharge for the five permanent members of the Security Council (who must approve all peacekeeping operations); this surcharge serves to offset discounted peacekeeping assessment rates for less developed countries.
The UN involvement in the Korean Conflict in which the UN was instrumental in causing the perpetuation of the political division of the Korean peninsula, rather than in promoting a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
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 United Nations - Wikipedia
The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council-China, France, U.S.S.R., U.K., and U.S.-and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.
The 1945 UN Charter envisaged a system of regulation that would ensure "the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources." The advent of nuclear weapons came only weeks after the signing of the Charter and provided immediate impetus to concepts of arms limitation and disarmament.
Under Helms-Biden, the U.S. paid $100 million in arrears to the UN in December 1999; release of the next $582 million awaits a legislative revision to Helms-Biden, necessary because the benchmark requiring a 25 percent peacekeeping assessment rate ceiling was not quite achieved.
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 United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The UN Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, led to the creation of the to advance the conclusions reached in Agenda 21, the final text of agreements negotiated by governments at UNCED;
The, held in Beijing, China, in September 1995, sought to accelerate implementation of the historic agreements reached at the held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985; and
Sexual abuse of girls by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Its first formal use was in the 1942 Declaration by the United Nations which committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and pledged them not to seek a seperate peace with the Axis powers.
Special UN programs not included in the regular budget (such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, and WFP) are financed by voluntary contributions from member governments.
Criticism that the UN is ruled by "tyranny of the majority" where for example, Arab states have an unfairly large influence as seen by the total disproportionate number of resolutions condemning Israel.
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 Donne le plus grand sommet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Application of disambiguation to dictionary definitions (in contrast to usual texts) allows for some simplifications of the algorithm, e.g., we do not have to care of context window size.
Incorrect part of speech tagging of a word did not affect much the disambiguation results for the other words in the same definition because of our morphologically-based comparison and because usually (in 75% of cases in our experiments) there is a little difference in the definition of a noun and the corresponding adjective.
Also, application of disambiguation to dictionary definitions (as compared with usual texts) allows for considerable simplification of the algorithm.
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One of the most important was Resolution 678, passed on November 29, giving Iraq a withdrawal deadline of January 15, 1991, and authorizing "all necessary means to uphold and implement Resolution 660", a diplomatic formulation authorizing the use of force.
The fifteen-year-old girl testifying before Congress was later revealed to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States; the supposed surgeon testifying at the UN was in fact a dentist who later admitted to having lied.
When the UN authorized full use of force in the operation Canada sent a CF18 squadron with support personnel.
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 United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Over US$225,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
Critics point out to the repeated use of the veto to protect Israel.
Website of the Global Policy Forum, an independent think-tank on the UN The United Nations
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 Drug - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A drug is any substance that can be used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process or processes in the body.
UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances from 1988, see http://www.incb.org/e/conv/1988/index.htm
The UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (http://www.undcp.org/) is charged with overseeing these treaties and maintains a list of signatory nations at http://www.undcp.org/treaty_adherence.html.
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