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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE or ECE) was established in 1947 to encourage economic cooperation among its member states. It is one of five regional commissions under the administrative direction of United Nations headquarters. As well as states in Europe, it includes the United States, Canada, Israel and the Central Asian republics. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Economic_Commission_for_Europe   (128 words)

United Nations Special Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War. The successor of UNSCOM is the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. See also: Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction, Operation Rockingham. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Special_Commission   (96 words)

National Monitoring Directorate - Iraq Special Weapons Agencies The National Monitoring Directorate was the governmental agency established as the interface between the Iraqi government and the United Nations Special Commission. These violations of the Commission's rights were protested by the Chairman in a series of letters to senior Iraqi officials and to the Deputy Prime Minister and were raised with him by the Chairman during his bimonthly meetings. The Commission often discovered that facilities provided accurate information to the National Monitoring Directorate but this information had then been manipulated so that the monitoring declarations presented to the Commission were misleading and inaccurate. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iraq/nmd.htm   (887 words)

CNS - Resignation Letter of William S. Ritter, Jr. The Special Commission of today, hobbled as it is by unfettered Iraqi obstruction and non-existent Security Council enforcement of its own resolutions, is not the organization I joined almost seven years ago. What is being propagated by the Security Council today in relation to the work of the Special Commission is such an illusion, one which in all good faith I cannot, and will not be a party to. As part of the Special Commission team, I have worked to achieve a simple end: the removal, destruction or rendering harmless of Iraq's proscribed weapons. cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/friday.htm   (730 words)

UNSCOM MANDATE Following the establishment of the Commission as a subsidiary organ of the Security Council, the Office of the Executive Chairman of the Special Commission - a full-time office to assist the Chairman in the exercise of his functions - was set up at United Nations Headquarters in New York, with offices in Bahrain and Baghdad. Thirty nuclear inspections have been undertaken by the IAEA with the assistance and cooperation of the Special Commission. The Commission and the IAEA presented a draft concept paper to the Sanctions Committee in May 1994 containing a proposal for a system of notification by both Iraq and the exporting country of dual-purpose items to be exported to Iraq. www.un.org /Depts/unscom/unscom.htm   (3063 words)

UNSCOP - 1947 But the League of Nations and the Mandates Commission have been dissolved, and there is now no means of discharging fully the international obligation with regard to a mandated territory other than by placing the territory under the International Trusteeship System of the United Nations. The United Nations, being seized with the problem of Palestine, should exert every proper effort to secure there a climate as congenial as possible to the application of a solution of the problem, both as regards the transitional and post-transitional periods. Only by means of partition can these conflicting national aspirations find substantial expression and qualify both peoples to take their places as independent nations in the international community and in the United Nations. www.mideastweb.org /unscop1947.htm   (14198 words)

United Nations Daily Highlights, 97-10-31 During her briefing of the press in Geneva, Pam O'Toole said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was "concerned that this week has seen the killing of another Croat returnee" in Canton 6. Following a briefing of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Ambassador Richard Butler said that he had taken an administrative decision to end the suspension of UNSCOM and to resume its activities in Iraq on Monday. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the resumption of the peace talks sponsored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on the war ravaged Sudan. www.hri.org /news/world/undh/97-10-31.undh.html   (2400 words)

About DTRA: Historical Documents: United Nations Special Commission on Iraq The Special Commission is responsible for the following missions: to ensure the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, to confirm the destruction of ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km, to verify the control and removal of nuclear materials, to conduct long-term monitoring of Iraqi compliance, and to provide operations support. On April 3, 1991, the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Resolution 687, which dictated the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire. United States assistance to the UN and UNSCOM, through DTRA and other federal agencies, helps to implement UN Security Council Resolutions by preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. www.dtra.mil /about/media/historical_documents/factsheet_archive/display.cfm?fs=UN_iraq   (759 words)

Washingtonpost.com: Iraq Special Report - Latest Story UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 — U.S. and British diplomats conceded today that they had failed in a week-long, high-level effort to gain support in the U.N. Security Council for a proposal to send international weapons inspectors back into Iraq. Among the contenders are Emilio Cardenas, Argentina's former ambassador to the United Nations, and Pasi Patokallio, a Finnish arms control expert. The United States and Britain remain adamant that sanctions must continue until weapons inspectors determine that Iraq has eliminated its long-range missiles and chemical, nuclear and biological weapons. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/iraq.htm   (277 words)

ADL Backgrounder - The Crisis with Iraq A military strike was finally avoided after United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan traveled to Iraq to conclude an agreement promising efforts to work towards the reduction of sanctions against Iraq and immediately providing for the resumption of regular UNSCOM inspections. Iraq& invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, led to a 40 day war in 1991 between Iraq and a coalition of 39 nations, led by the United States. With Iraq demanding the removal of all American weapons inspectors from the country, the United Nations instead issued the withdrawal of all its inspectors. www.adl.org /backgrounders/iraq_crisis.asp   (1581 words)

Role of the Special Committee Against Apartheid The initiatives of the Special Committee in 1963 and 1965 in promoting humanitarian assistance by governments to political prisoners in South Africa and their families were without precedent, and led to one of the most important and worthwhile operations by the United Nations. The Special Committee was the first United Nations body to launch the concept of a "campaign" by the United Nations – by calling for an international campaign against apartheid in 1966 and subsequently, after the Lagos Conference of 1977, for an international mobilisation against apartheid. The Special Committee was the first committee, and perhaps the only United Nations body, to arrange receptions in honour of leaders of a liberation movement at the United Nations Headquarters. www.anc.org.za /un/reddy/struggle2.html   (17126 words)

Statute of the International Court of Justice The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force. The International Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute. The expenses of the Court shall be borne by the United Nations in such a manner as shall be decided by the General Assembly. www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/ibasicdocuments/Basetext/istatute.htm   (4041 words)

The United States and the Recognition of Israel: A Chronology November 1947: A subcommittee of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine establishes a timetable for British withdrawal from Palestine. March 19, 1948: United States representative to the United Nations Warren Austin announces to the United Nations Security Council that the United States position is that the partition of Palestine is no longer a viable option. September 17, 1947: Secretary of State George Marshall, in an address to the United Nations, indicates that the United States is reluctant to endorse the partition of Palestine. www.trumanlibrary.org /israel/palestin.htm   (2358 words)

Foot and Mouth Disease Letter This plant was declared by Iraq to the Special Commission in November 1991 as a civilian facility for the production of vaccines. Thereafter, through the good offices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Iraq imported foot and mouth disease vaccine, as it had done previously. Following on the Commission's own inspections, analyses and investigations, Iraq admitted, in July 1995, that Daura was not a purely civilian facility, but had been used for biological warfare agent production, research and development. www.iraqwatch.org /un/UNSCOM/s-1999-285(foot).htm   (766 words)

Scott Ritter, Saddam's Trap, The New Republic, Dec 21 By August of this year, the United States was fully committed to a policy--albeit unstated--of containing Iraq through economic sanctions and a large military presence in the Gulf, while avoiding expensive, debilitating confrontations between UNSCOM and Saddam. The role of the special representative was ostensibly to monitor the situation in Baghdad and attempt to mediate any disputes between our inspection team and Iraq before they developed into full-fledged crises. The United States gamely allowed the Security Council to deliberate for more than a month before passing a resolution condemning Iraq's actions, then proclaimed victory, on the assumption that Iraq was now more isolated than ever. www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/12/21/981221-scott.htm   (3845 words)

CNN.com - Richard Butler: Should the U.S. attack Iraq? - November 28, 2001 As executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission, Richard Butler was the chief weapons inspector for the U.N. in Iraq from 1997 until 1999. Prior to joining UNSCOM, Butler was the Australian ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 until 1997 and the Australian ambassador to Thailand from 1989 until 1992. At the United Nations and elsewhere, concern has been expressed about the possibility of an attack by the United States on Iraq. archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/11/28/butler.cnna   (1486 words)

02-09-10kay.html Indeed, the start of any sensible long-term approach to Iraq is to understand why the United Nations arms inspections slid into irrelevance and four years ago came to and end. To compress a lot of bitter history: In December 1998, the United States conducted military attacks against Iraq after UNSCOM reported that it could not achieve its mandated disarmament and monitoring tasks with the limited access and cooperation Iraq allowed. And while we should credit the UN inspection process with destroying a substantial nuclear weapons establishment in Iraq that was largely unidentified at the time of the Gulf War and that had survived largely unscathed the coalition bombing campaign. www.house.gov /hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/107thcongress/02-09-10kay.html   (2658 words)

CNS - Richard Butler - Iraq Special Collection In July 1998, the Commission sent an international expert team to Baghdad to discuss the initial results of the chemical analyses which had been conducted in the laboratory in the United States and which had identified VX degradation products in the samples taken from special warhead remnants. The purpose of the laboratory analyses was to seek to establish the substances with which those special missile warheads had been filled. When passing these initial results to the Iraqi side, I authorized at the same time that further laboratory analyses be conducted in the laboratory in the United States and then in two other laboratories, one in France, the other in Switzerland. cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/1098chr.htm   (443 words)

Washingtonpost.com: International Special Report: Iraq The joint inspections by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may be the most sophisticated campaign ever undertaken to wipe out a country’s weapons of mass destruction. United Nations arms inspectors and the International Atomic Energy Agency say Iraq continues to play a deadly shellgame that conceals many of the most dangerous weapons that survived the 1991 Gulf War. Even so, UNSCOM’s representatives say thousands of gallons of germ weapons, chemical weapons and some parts of Iraq’s nuclear program remain impossible to trace, at least for the moment. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/maps/satindex.htm   (298 words)

Commission on Human Rights The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, composed of special session, provided that a majority of States members of the Commission so agree, mindful of the need for the Commission on Human Rights to deal with urgent and acute human rights situations in the most expeditious way. During its regular annual session, the Commission adopts about a hundred resolutions, decisions and Chairperson's statements on matters of relevance to individuals in all regions and circumstances. www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/2/chr.htm   (221 words)

Iraq Web Links: Library and Links: Jeannette Rankin Library Program: U.S. Institute of Peace ReliefWeb, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), "is the global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters." The country listing includes the latest news updates, links to the complex emergency information, as well as key documents and maps. IRIN, a unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides a clearinghouse of the latest information for humanitarian and international communities on the crisis in Iraq. This report, produced by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is available in PDF from the committee's web site, 23.M for the full report (PDF) and 1.9 M for the conclusions (PDF), excerpted from the full report. www.usip.org /library/regions/iraq.html   (3531 words)

Index.htm United Nations Special Commission © New York - New York This page has been maintained by UNSCOM's Computing Staff up to December 1999. www.un.org /Depts/unscom   (23 words)

The Peace Encyclopedia: United Nations Last spring, Sudan's government, the radical Islamist regime of the National Islamic Front (NIF) headed by Hasan at-Turabi and Gen. 'Umar al-Bashir, protested to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights about our work. In April, the Khartoum regime also initiated proceedings to deny CSI its consultative status at the United Nations (U.N.), alleging that we act contrary to the purposes and principles of the U.N. charter. And since obligations are generally honored in the breech, an appropriate role for the United States would be to insist that the Arab states, and the Palestinian leadership, change both their behavior and their propaganda as a prerequisite to changes to the borders of Israel. www.yahoodi.com /peace/un.html   (2780 words)

The Situation between Iraq and Kuwait. Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Hans Dahlgren, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations, 23 October 1997 I Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations The mandate of the United Nations Special Commission was given by the Security Council in order to ensure that Iraq's weapons of mass-destruction are eliminated so as to safeguard peace and security. Full cooperation with the Special Commission and implementation of the relevant resolutions is the only way forward in order for the sanctions to be lifted. Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Hans Dahlgren, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations, 23 October 1997 I Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations www.un.int /sweden/pages/nationalstatemen/0971023.htm   (260 words)

UNITED NATIONS During informal consultations on 24 November, the members of the Security Council agreed that the United Nations Special Commission should provide to the Council, in the period prior to a possible comprehensive review, brief weekly reports on its activities. On 26 November, Dr. Al-Qaysi informed the Executive: Chairman that Iraq was transmitting to the Commission a report on the analyses of swab samples of special warhead remnants taken by the Iraqi side in July 1998, dated 10 September 1998, comprising 42 pages. Home :: WMD :: Library :: News :: Iraq:: United Nations :: www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/un/981203_duelfer.htm   (1078 words)

Page d'accueil It provides research support to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, in collaboration with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Research Unit helps to prepare the Special Rapporteur's reports to the UN Commission on Human Rights and to the UN General Assembly and assists in country missions to examine the right to food around the world. The Special Rapporteur is encouraged to report that in November 2004, the "Voluntary Guidelines" were adopted by the FAO Council and approved by all Governments. www.righttofood.org   (1586 words)

UN Headquarters Bombing, Baghdad, Iraq Without warning, the explosion at the United Nations headquarters-which is approximately 100 meters from the detachment's offices and living quarters-rocked the surrounding buildings and shattered windows throughout the area. The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian national, was killed during the explosion. The explosion was powerful enough to break windows for more than a kilometer around the Canal Hotel complex where the United Nations has its Iraq headquarters. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/un-hq-baghdad-bombing.htm   (695 words)

U.N.: Special Sitting Urged on Iraq (Human Rights Watch, 24-3-2003) The Commission, which is the United Nations' major human rights forum, began its annual meeting in Geneva this week. The Commission has in the past held special debates in response to human rights crises in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Chechnya, East Timor, and Israel and the Occupied Territories. The Commission could put its own investigative experts on stand-by or request the Secretary-General to appoint an international commission of experts for this purpose. www.hrw.org /press/2003/03/un032403.htm   (390 words)

United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks OCHA IRIN The material contained on www.IRINnews.org comes to you via IRIN, a UN humanitarian news and information service, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. The Civic United Front's, the strongest opposition party, is fielding its secretary-general, Seif Sharif Hamad, for the island's presidency. All IRIN material may be reposted or reprinted free-of-charge; refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use. www.irinnews.org   (464 words)

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