UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
Ensure the effective participation of the Division in UN-Water, the United Nations system coordinating mechanism on freshwater issues.
It has repeated its long-held position to a United Nations committee that the UN Charter gives the people of the territory an unqualified right to self-determination - a right that cannot be overridden by treaties or other international agreements.
Following nomination by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, on 25 August 2010, elected Joan Clos of Spain as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.
That is UN-speak for a commitment developed nations like the United States undertook in 2002 to commit 0.7% of their gross domestic product to Official Development Assistance (ODA, also known as foreign aid).
The foreign secretary said he believed the Occupied Palestinian Territories had largely met the criteria for UN membership but the government wanted the Quartet - the United Nations, EU, Russia and the United States - to help the Israelis and Palestinians resume "meaningful negotiations" and reach a two-state deal.
Ensure enabling conditions for the preparation of the flagship output of WWAP as well as timely production, launching and dissemination of the triennial World Water Development Report, including the appropriate coordination with other collaborating United Nations agencies within the framework of UN-Water.
Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the report is the result of a joint effort by the 24 United Nations agencies and entities that make up UN-Water.
In the framework of efforts to reduce Co2 gas emissions, the Executive Heads participated in the inauguration of the new energy efficient office building for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat in Nairobi.
Accordingly, the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN-FCCC) to organize conferences, along with the U.N.
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The Alliance is a UN-sponsored affair that reflects - as, increasingly do most things the United Nations is involved in - the views of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
Side one is that the U.S. goes for North Korea without going to the United Nations--nobody in Washington could stand the UN experience again--and without seeking the support of its dwindling stock of allies.
On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the first UN summit on the environment, and the event that really put the issue on the global political agenda.
In addition to the aforementioned United Nations Human Rights Council resolution in 2012, the 2nd UN Inter-Agency Meeting in Vienna, Austria last year, adopted a concrete global, regional, and national level implementation strategy was adopted for the UN Plan of Action.
The High-level Meeting on Youth was held at UN Headquarters in New York, USA, on 25-26 July 2011, by the United Nations General Assembly.
Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
Perversely lending legitimacy to that NAM gathering, at which UN-sanctioned Iran took over the NAM chairmanship for 2012-2015, were such worthies as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability was produced jointly by UNESCO - IOC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has told the Security Council that UN troops are to be deployed on the Lebanese-Israeli border from Wednesday.
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