The United States of America and the Russian Federation intend to increase cooperation in addressing the world drug problem, so as to radically reduce production and consumption of illicit drugs, as affirmed by resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Through this Board, the Secretary-General and UN agencies will obtain comprehensive advice on all dimensions of science, technology and innovation for sustainable development.
Through this mechanism, the Secretary-General and UN agencies will be provided with comprehensive advice on all of the dimensions of science, technology and innovation for sustainable development, as well as on how to promote cooperation among various UN agencies and with the international scientific community.
On Tuesday the UN secretary general dismissed allegations that the UN covered up a high civilian death toll during the last phase of the Sri Lanka conflict.
Previous reports by the inquiry panel have already reprimanded UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, other UN officials and the UN Security Council for turning a blind eye to the mismanagement of the programme.
In addition, he spoke to Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the UN, and Lord Robertson, secretary-general of NATO.
Recent examples include Libya's Ali Treki, now serving as the 2009-10 president of the UN General Assembly, as well as backing Sudan, Syria and Iran for important posts overseeing the UN's cultural organization, UNESCO.
But Obama is unmoved by any of this, and as his speech at the UN General Assembly made clear, he is moving full speed ahead in his plans to subordinate US foreign policy to the UN.
The Director-General held a private meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the wake of his trip to Asia.
President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud.
In December the UN General Assembly votes on calling for a global moratorium on capital punishment.
That would mean no vote could take place until the UN General Assembly of October 2013.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week gave a dramatic speech at the UN General Assembly.
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For these remarks, he received enthusiastic applause from the world leaders assembled at the UN General Assembly.
The secretaries-general of the UN and the 22-country Arab League also attended, along with the EU's foreign-affairs chief.
President Bush made this assertion to the UN General Assembly earlier this month.
In November 1947, the UN General Assembly recommended partitioning western Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.
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By all accounts, that phase will culminate in September at the UN General Assembly's annual conclave in New York.
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On November 24 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution to hold a Durban III conference on September 21.
There is a good chance that the draft treaty will be brought before the UN General Assembly in October.
In December, the UN General Assembly unanimously approved a non-binding resolution calling for all member states to ban the practice.
Ban Ki-moon warned the UN General Assembly in New York that Syrian refugee numbers could swell to 700, 000 by January.
They had hoped that activities this week in New York, scheduled around the UN General Assembly, might move things forward.
Most analysts thought the releases had been timed to influence opinion at the UN General Assembly session in New York.
They cover a variety of subjects, including multiculturalism, the training of Adult Education champions and global citizenship education through the Model UN General Assembly.
On 14 July 2011, the UN General Assembly voted by acclamation to admit the Republic of South Sudan as a Member State.
They will announce these commitments at a high-level meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York next month.
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