With this historic declaration, the States of the world recognized cultural diversity as the common heritage of humanity.
Earlier, the 192 member states of the World Health Organisation voted unanimously to pass the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first international treaty to clamp down on tobacco consumption.
In May 2012, health ministers from the member states of the World Health Assembly agreed to a resolution on mental health, making a commitment to promote greater awareness of mental health issues and improve care standards around the world.
The World Heritage Committee, responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, comprises representatives of 21 countries, elected by the States Parties of the World Heritage Convention for four years.
The 36th meeting of the World Heritage Committee, an independent body composed of 21 States Parties of the World Heritage Convention of 1972, continues until 6 July.
Indeed, most of the welfare states of the developed world have scapegoated the wealthy.
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But even as Europeans accuse the United States of throwing the world economy off balance, Americans accuse an arthritic Europe of holding the world economy back.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
The total consumption possibilities of the United States (and of the world) have been expanded relative to the case of U.S. unilateral free trade.
The states of the developed world need to stop talking about indirect benefits and spinoffs of spending and focus on direct benefits, the direct benefits to direct productive activity.
This shows the commitment that the United States has to bringing security to Afghanistan and, by extension, to the United States and the rest of the world, and the difficult task that we have ahead of us in securing our future generations a better and more secure life.
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With Djokovic leading the way and winning the conclusive rubber against John Isner, Serbia beat the might of the United States in the World Group first round earlier this month to reach the quarterfinals of the competition for the first time.
But another extremely challenging task facing the Bush administration is the need to improve the image of the United States around the world, a task made more difficult by allegations of prisoner abuse that have put the Bush administration on the defensive.
The majority of states in large parts of the world, namely South and South East Asia and the Middle East, have yet to sign the refugee convention.
The financial shock to the United States and the rest of the world would be fairly mild.
Those countries pushed into recession by weaker American demand will, in turn, buy less from both the United States and the rest of the world, magnifying the initial effect.
Indeed, it's the rate at which this economic crisis has been transmitted from the United States to the rest of the world that has most caught the attention of international economists.
Generally speaking, the transnationalists tend to emphasize the interdependence between the United States and the rest of the world, while the nationalists tend instead to focus more on preserving American autonomy.
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President Bush said Friday the United States and the rest of the world's worst polluters should work together to set a goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that have triggered a global increase in temperature.
The view of the United States in that part of the world seems to be improving, and I think observers have talked about the notion that the President's speech has already begun to pay some dividends as it relates to that.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences (nyse: CSC - news - people ), which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
London, England (CNN) -- Four years ago, Tim Howard watched from the sidelines as the United States crashed out of the World Cup after failing to make it past the group stages in Germany, which was a blow to soccer's slow development in America.
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The people of the United States and the peace-loving people of the world are determined that the peace process will go forward.
U.S. intelligence agencies estimated that the 2006 North Korean test produced a blast equivalent to less than 1, 000 tons of TNT, a fraction of the size of the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
In the former instance, Lynas reminds me of a young Sir Mark Sykes carving the Persian Gulf into sovereign political states in the wake of World War One without recognizing the most salient assumptions implicit in those political boundaries and the vast consequences they would create.
The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it binds in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties and sets out the duties of member-states and the international community for the preservation of monuments of world heritage.
With its big Army, weak government, and unpopular politicians, Iraq increasingly resembles the post-colonial states of Africa and the Arab world, which produced coup upon coup during the second half of the twentieth century.
And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world.
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